Luismar Porto,
Associate Professor
Luismar M. Porto received his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Regional de Blumenau (1980), and Masters degree in Physical Chemistry from Federal University of Santa Catarina-UFSC (Florianópolis, SC)/COPPE-UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, RJ), Brazil (1987), and then his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University (1993), Evanston, IL, USA. Prof. Porto has spent one year (2001-2002) as a post-doc at the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Queensland - Brisbane, Australia, where he has acquired basic skills in the area of Biological and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Porto is currently an Associate Professor of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), one of the leading academic and research institutions in Brazil. At UFSC, Prof. Porto was part of the group that has founded the Chemical and Food Engineering Department, where he has served as its Head of Department, the Masters Program in Chemical Engineering, which he has served as a Chairman, and the Doctoral Program in Chemical Engineering. At UFSC he supervises the Integrated Technologies Laboratory (www.intelab.ufsc.br) and leads the Genomic Engineering Group, an inter-institutional research group with interests in advanced biotech products.
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