Dra. Tereza Cristina de Farias Guimarães
 
 

Dr. Tereza Cristina de Farias Guimarães held her Post doctorate in the Department of Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics of the Brazilian Center for Physics Research - CBPF in Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of research professors at the University of Berkeley, California, in 2000. PhD in Chemistry Theoretical by the Federal University of Pernambuco – UFPE, in 1998 with a thesis on Reactions Mechanisms of Study Catalytic Heterogeneous of Transition Metals Surfaces, with emphasis on CO dissociation for automotive catalysts. Master in Chemistry Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia - UFBA / UNICAMP in 1991, where she set up a line of research Catalytic Reaction Engineering inaugurated with the benzene reaction to maleic anhydrous, and later used by students graduated in Chemistry Engineering of the Polytechnic School of UFBA. In 1981 participated at the start of CIBA-Geigy plant in Bahia with the assembly of analytical laboratories, research and development and ecology, soon after studying Chemistry Engineering and Industrial Chemistry at UFBA and UFPE at the undergraduate level. Dr. Tereza Cristina de Farias Guimarães is currently Professor at the Bahia State University - UNEB, and CNPq Research Group Leader: Study, characterization and development of new materials, accredited in 2004 with participation of students and teachers of courses in Civil Engineering, Degree in Chemistry and Design of UNEB, some researchers of UFBA and CBPF and other Higher Education Institutions - IES Brazil. Also in 2004, set up a small laboratory for Metals Recovery in Catalysts Waste at the Petrochemistry Polo of Camaçari. Now, in 2015, she is opening and Coordinating the Engineering and Materials Science Laboratory – LECIM, in the Department of Exact Sciences and Earth – UNEB Campus I, whose research fields are: Clay, Sand and Ceramic Coating; the Recycling and Reuse of Solid Waste (polymeric, ceramic and metallic), another Development of Composite Polymeric, and the Quantum Mechanics Computational deployed since 2006 with simulations of Mechanical Properties of Materials targeting the calculations of resistance of new alloys, and study of the mechanisms of the reactions to the use of hydrogen as a source of clean energy. It works specifically with the software VASP (Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package).