Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Edson Leonardo Scarpa de Souza
He holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry at Unicamp, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carlos Roque Duarte Correia. Between 2023 and 2024, he completed an internship at the Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. in Rostock, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller. He obtained his Master's degree in 2020 from the Institute of Chemistry at Unicamp and completed his undergraduate degree in 2017 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo. He has experience in the area of Organic Chemistry, with an emphasis on Organic Synthesis and Enantioselective Metallic Catalysis.
Graduate Students
Giovanna Scalli Tâmega
Giovanna received a B.S. in chemistry from Federal University of São Carlos in 2023. She has been pursuing his M.Sc. in chemsitry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Ferreira. Her areas of interest in research include aldol reactions catalyzed by chiral enamines, and development of flow redox bateries assisted by machine learning techniques.
Ms. Mateus Oliveira Costa
Mateus Oliveira Costa received his BSc degree in chemistry in 2019, and M.Sc. degree in 2022, both at from Federal University of São Carlos. He has been pursuing his Ph.D in chemsitry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Ferreira. His areas of interest in research include cobalt-catalyzed oxidative biomass valorization, Pd-photoredox catalysis assisted by machine learning techniques, and computational studies of organic chemistry reactions.
Attilio Chiavegatti Neto
Attilio Chiavegatti Neto received his degree in chemistry from Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) in 2020. In the following year he started his Ph.D studies on olefin metathesis reactions at the same university under the supervision of Professor Dr. Marco Ferreira. His research interests involve computational studies of reaction mechanisms and the use of statistical modelling in organic chemistry reactions.
Ariel de Araújo Pereira
His undergrad research project involved studies aimed at increasing catalytic performance in lignin depolymerization reactions catalyzed by Co(salen) complexes using ligand parameterization. His Ph.D. studies involves the mechanism investigation of catalysed amide bond formation.
Rafaela Binda
Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2023), and master degree in Chemistry from Federal University of São Carlos (2026). Possesses experience in the field of Organic Synthesis, organic redox flow batteries, and data science tools. Her Ph.D. research project involves the computational investigation of Frustrated Lewis pair to activate H-H aiming the application in biomass valorization.
Undergrad Students
Julia Ferreira Henrique
Undergraduate student in Chemistry Education at Federal University of São Carlos, conducts scientific initiation research focused on the trifluoromethylative cycloetherification of homoallylic alcohols using a metal-free methodology based on EDA complexes.