Formiga group | University of Campinas | artificial photosynthesis

Born in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. October, 1978.
CNPq Research Fellow since 2008
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Member of the Brazilian Chemical Society (since 1998)
Vice Director at Campinas (2010-2012)

After completing his PhD in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Henrique Toma (University of São Paulo) Formiga started his independent career at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 2006 at the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry. In 2009, he moved to Campinas to join the Department of Inorganic Chemistry where he is working since then. He occupied several administrative and representative positions at the university, the last one as vice-head of the external cooperation committe of the institute (2022-2023).

Former Affiliations

Brookhaven National Laboratory - USA

Visiting Faculty - Chemistry Division (2018-2019)
Artificial Photosynthesis Group

University of Leuven - Belgium

Visiting Scholar - Department of Chemistry (2010-2014)
Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modeling

Helmholtz Zentrum München - Germany

Visiting Scholar - Institute of Radiation Protection (2010)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Department Head, General and Inorganic Chemistry (2008)
Faculty Member (2006-2008)

Universidade de São Paulo

Researcher (Postdoctoral fellow, 2006)
PhD candidate (2001-2005)

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Undergraduate student in Chemistry (1997-2001)

BetzDearborn International

Laboratory Analist (1996-1997)

Prof. André Formiga (photo credits: Pedro Amatuzzi-Inova Unicamp)

Prof. Formiga teaches Coordination Chemistry and Computational Coordination Chemistry for undergraduate (Chemistry and Engineering) and graduate students since 2006.
He supervised the scientific training of more than 70 alumni and acted as an invited lecturer in several Brazilian universities, at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and as visiting faculty at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.