RESEARCH LINES
RESEARCH LINES
NATURAL PRODUCTS AND FOOD CHEMISTRY.
This research line focuses on the development and methodological applications for the determination, structural elucidation, and synthesis of organic compounds present in food sources or others, of plant, animal, and/or microbiological origin. It also involves the evaluation of the biological activity of these compounds, contributing to the mapping of natural resources occurring in the Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado biomes located in the Brazilian Northeast region.
BIOTECHNOLOGICAL AND ENERGY APPLICATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES AND BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS.
This research line involves the transformation of substrates into bioproducts of technological interest using microorganisms for the production of industrial derivatives. Additionally, this research line also encompasses the structural and physicochemical characterization of biomolecules and organic, inorganic, and nanostructured compounds with potential biological, nanotechnological, or energy-related activity. Researchers in this line use spectroscopic, electrochemical, biophysical, and microscopic techniques that enable the correlation between structure-activity of materials.
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF ANALYTICAL METHODS.
This research line aims at the development and application of procedures and analytical methods for the determination of chemical species present in diverse concentration ranges in samples of varied natures. Thus, the work developed will be based primarily on the development and validation of analytical methodologies for determining inorganic and organic constituents in environmental, food, fuel, biological, and diverse material samples, using spectrometric, chromatographic, and electroanalytical techniques. The focus is to achieve higher sensitivity, selectivity, robustness, analytical frequency, precision, accuracy, the possibility of automation, and to reduce costs, sample handling steps, reagent consumption, and laboratory waste production.