Prof. Dr. Joaquim de Araújo Nóbrega

Lecture topics: ''Microwave-assisted Sample Preparation: Where we heading to?''

Received his Ph.D. from the State University of Campinas (1992) and completed his postdoctoral training with Ramon Barnes (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1996) and with Bradley Jones (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 2003). He is Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Federal University of São Carlos (São Carlos, São Paulo State, Brazil). His research interests are sample preparation for inorganic analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry, atomic emission spectrometry, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. He co-authored a chapter in 2011, updated in 2024, on “Microwave-Assisted Sample Preparation for Spectrochemistry”

published in the online Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (John Wiley & Sons). He is a member of the Brazilian Society of Chemistry, Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, and Fellow Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry.