Professor
Institute of Chemistry
University of Campinas
Campinas, Brazil
http://www.correia-group.com
Prof. Carlos RD Correia got his PhD degree in Chemistry from Stanford University, USA, in 1986 under the supervision of Professor Paul A. Wender. After completing his PhD, he returned to Brazil and started his independent career as an assistant professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, moving to the rank of full professor at the same University in 1990. In 1993, Dr. Correia moved with his research group to the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo/Brazil, where he has been ever since. He is a former head of graduate studies at the Chemistry Institute of Unicamp, acting as Vice-Director of the institute from 2009 to 2010. Prof. Carlos Correia is a 1A class researcher of the Brazilian National Research Council, the recipient of the 3M “Non-Tenured Faculty Award” in 2000, the Unicamp “Zeferino Vaz Excellence Award” in 2013, and has been acting as international adviser for the International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweden, since 1994. In 2014 he became Editor for South America for the journal “Letters of Organic Chemistry”, and member of the board of the journal “Current Organocatalysis”. Dr. Correia is currently the vice-chairman of the Organic Chemistry Department of the Chemistry Institute.
His main research interests include organic synthesis and the development of new synthetic methodologies involving palladium, aiming at the concise and practical synthesis of natural products, bioactive heterocyclic compounds, pharmaceuticals and biofunctional compounds.
