Vinicius C. Costa
Laboratório de Espectrometria Atômica (LEA)/LabPetro, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória-ES, BrazilUniversidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazilVitória, ES, BrazilLaboratório de Espectrometria Atômica (LEA)/LabPetro, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória-ES, Brazil
Vinicius C. Costa is graduated in Chemistry in 2013 at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Brazil, where he got his Master’s degree, in 2015. In 2019, received a PhD degree in Science by Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Nowadays, is a Post-doctoral researcher in Brazil at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). He has experience in analytical chemistry with emphasis on direct analysis of solids by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF). In addition, he works with chemometrics tools as: design of experiments, supervised and unsupervised methods and multivariate calibration. He is the author/co-author of 35 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and has an H factor of 9.
Diego V. Babos
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Diego V. Babos is graduated in Chemistry at Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV, Rio Paranaíba), Master’s degree at Chemistry Institute UNESP, Araraquara, and PhD degree in Sciences (Analytical Chemistry) at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, with sandwich period at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, 2020. His research interests are centered in direct solid analysis by atomic spectroscopic technique (HR-CS GFAAS, LIBS, XRF and XANES), chemometrics tools and sample preparation. He is the author/co-author of 25 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Jeyne P. Castro
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Jeyne P. Castro is graduated in Chemistry at Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba (2014). Master in Analytical Chemistry at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar, 2017). Presently, she is a PhD student at UFSCar under supervision of Prof Dr Edenir R. Pereira-Filho, where her work was developed partly at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) under supervision of Prof Dr Rasmus Bro. Her experience is in the area of analytical chemistry focusing on spectroanalytical techniques (LIBS, ICP OES, XRF), sample preparation, direct analysis of solids and data processing using chemometric tools. She is the author/co-author of 13 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Daniel F. Andrade
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Daniel F. Andrade is graduated in Chemistry in 2015 at Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba (UFV-CRP). He got his Master’s degree in Chemistry (Analytical Chemistry) at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), in 2017. Currently, he is a PhD student at UFSCar in the development of analytical methods for direct characterization of electronic waste under the supervision of Prof Edenir R. Pereira-Filho. His work has been developed partly at Hampshire College, USA, under the supervision of Prof Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena. His research interests are centered on Analytical Chemistry, acting on the following topics: sample preparation, chemometric tools, ICP OES, ICP-MS, XRF, and laser-based techniques such as LIBS and LA-ICP-MS. He is the author/co-author of 20 papers published in international and national peer-reviewed journals and has an H factor of 9.
Raimundo R. Gamela
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Raimundo R. Gamela is graduated in Chemistry in 2014 at Universidade Catolica de Moçambique (UCM), Mozambique. In 2017, he received Master’s degree in Food Science and Technology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, under supervision of Prof Dr Maria Goreti Rodrigues Vale. In 2020, he obtained his PhD degree in Science (Analytical Chemistry) at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, under the supervision of Prof Dr Edenir R. Pereira-Filho. He has experience in the following fields: direct solid analysis and sample preparation for the determination of chemical composition in food samples employing different instrumental techniques, such as laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES). Moreover, he has experience in design of experiment and multivariate calibration employing different chemometric tools. Nowadays he is working at SwissLab at Maputo (Mozambique).
Raquel C. Machado
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Raquel C. Machado obtained her degree in Chemistry at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in 2012. In 2014, she obtained Master degree in Chemistry (Analytical Chemistry) at Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in the Group for Applied Instrumental Analysis (GAIA) under supervision of Dr Ana Rita de Araujo Nogueira (Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste), where she obtained PhD degree (2018). According to specific collaboration agreement, she also obtained PhD degree at Universidad of Zaragoza, Spain (2018). Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at GAIA-UFSCar under the supervision of Prof Dr Edenir R. Pereira-Filho. She has experience in Analytical Chemistry, with emphasis on sample preparation, solid sampling, and direct analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS, HG AAS, HR CS GFAAS) and plasma source techniques (MIP OES, ICP OES, ICP-MS and LIBS), topics to which she has contributed with 17 publications.
Marco A. Sperança
Grupo de Abordagens Analíticas Alternativas (GAAA), Instituto de Pesquisa em Bioenergia (IPBEN), Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 14800-060 Araraquara-SP, BrazilUniversidade Estadual PaulistaBrazilAraraquara, SP, BrazilGrupo de Abordagens Analíticas Alternativas (GAAA), Instituto de Pesquisa em Bioenergia (IPBEN), Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 14800-060 Araraquara-SP, Brazil
Marco A. Sperança is graduated in Chemistry in 2013 at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, where he also got his Master’s degree in 2015, and his PhD degree in 2019 under the supervision of Prof Dr Edenir R. Pereira-Filho with a participation as guest researcher on Fraunhofer Institute of Lasertechnology (ILT) on Aachen, Germany, under supervision of Dr Reinhard Noll. Nowadays, he is a Post-doctoral researcher in Brazil at Instituto de Química, Campus Araraquara (IQ-Car), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Has experience in Chemistry, focusing on analytical chemistry, acting on the following subjects: atomic absorption/emission spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics. He is author/co-author of 19 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and has an H factor of 9.
Alisson S. Araújo
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Alisson S. Araújo has a degree in Chemistry from the Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (Unifesspa), where he received a scholarship from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for two years. Currently he is master student in Analytical Chemistry at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) under the supervision of Prof Edenir R. Pereira-Filho. He has experience in the area of chemistry, with emphasis on analytical chemistry, and works mainly on the following topics: development and application of chemometric tools: design of experiments, classification, multivariate and multiway calibration. The results of his studies were published in three scientific articles and two of them were from his project when he was an undergraduate student.
José A. Garcia
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
José A. Garcia is graduated in Chemistry in 2010 at the Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco (Unicastelo), Brazil. In 2014, he received Master’s degree in Technological Chemistry at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Currently, he is performing a PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry at UFSCar, under the supervision of Prof Edenir R. Pereira-Filho. Garcia has over thirteen years of experience in a multi-national company in the field of R&D. Last position was as Project Specialist at Fundação de Apoio a Capacitação em Tecnologias da Informação (FACTI) in Campinas-SP, where his main function was to develop chemical processes for the industry. His research interests are in the areas of chemometrics (statistical and mathematical tools for solving chemical problems, such as quality control, development of analytical methods and development of industrial processes) and in the application of spectroanalytical techniques as tools of Process Analytical Technology (PAT). He is also one of the founders of SG Soluções Científicas, a spin-off from his research group.
Edenir R. Pereira-Filho
Grupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São CarlosBrazilSão Carlos, SP, BrazilGrupo de Análise Instrumental Aplicada, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Edenir R. Pereira-Filho is Associate Professor at Federal University of São Carlos, Chemistry Department (UFSCar/DQ) since 2006. Graduated in Chemistry in 1996 at Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil) and obtained his PhD degree at Campinas State University (Unicamp, Campinas) in 2003. In 2001, he developed part of his PhD at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, now Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS), Dortmund, Germany. His interests are related to do researches about LIBS (laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy), sample preparation, biological and environmental sample analyses, images (digital and hyperspectral) and chemometrics application in analytical chemistry. He published more than 100 papers involving AAS, slurry samples, sample preparation using microwave oven, flow analysis, spectrophotometry, LIBS and chemometrics. In addition, he is co-author of three patents: (i) use of microwave oven and flow analysis for food and biological sample preparation, (ii) closed vessel digester block sample preparation, (iii) chemical information visualization using hyperspectral images and LIBS. In 2010, he performed a post-doc project at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). Up to 2020 supervised 20 and 12 master and PhD students, respectively. His YouTube channel has more than 800 followers (almost 400 videos) and is devoted to design of experiments (DoE) in Chemistry. He is very engaged in team work, helping and improving his students professional skills, and this review is an excellent example.