Rodrigo de Siqueira Melo
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography
Rodrigo de Siqueira Melo has graduated in Biological Sciences and has done his Master’s in Biochemistry from the Institute of Chemistry (UFRJ). He has done his Doctorate in Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes, UFRJ. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Campus Macaé, Brazil. He has developed projects with exopolysaccharides of marine cyanobacteria for application as antifouling in anticorrosive paints. He is currently the Coordinator of the Group of Bioelectroanalytics and Advanced Materials at UFRJ-Campus Macaé and develops research in the area of ​​quantification of heavy metals in different samples using electroanalytical methods, electrode construction and modified sensors for interaction with different macromolecules, study and development of anticorrosive coatings and development of films by electropolymerization with natural marine products.