Prof. Dr. Fernando José Luna de Oliveira

Fernando José Luna de Oliveira is assistant professor, since 1999, at the Northern Rio de Janeiro State University, where he teaches undergraduate chemistry courses and advises graduate students in the areas of catalysis and the history of chemistry. He completed his doctorate in sciences at Campinas State University (Unicamp) in 1998, with a dissertation on the use of solid catalysts for selective oxidation of hydrocarbons. Prior to that, he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in Fortaleza-Brazil (1989), and a master's degree in inorganic chemistry from Ibaraki University in Mito-Japan (1993). He also lived and studied in Wisconsin during his high school senior year and in Leuven-Belgium, where he did part of the experimental work for his doctorate. At his present post, in addition to supervising graduate and undergraduate students whose research involves the use of catalysts for the production of biofuels and for environmentally friendly fertilizers, he has been doing research on the history of chemistry in Brazil and was recently on leave for a post-doc fellowship at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro. He has published a dozen articles in specialized journals such as Foundations of Chemistry and the Journal of the Chemical Society-Faraday Trans. and contributes regularly as reviewer for Brazilian and International publications. For the past year and half he has been writing a chemistry textbook to be used in the distance learning project implemented by a consortium of Brazilian Universities.

Recebeu o grau de bacharel em química da Universidade Federal do Ceará (1989), fez mestrado em química inorgânica na Universidade de Ibaraki, no Japão (1990-93) e doutorado em ciências na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1994-98). Trabalha como professor associado da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF), em Campos dos Goytazaces-RJ, desde 1999. Em 2011, realizou estágio de pós-doutorado em história das ciências na Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, da Fiocruz, no Rio de Janeiro. Conduz pesquisas no Laboratório de Ciências Químicas da UENF e orienta alunos de mestrado e doutorado no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Naturais, em projetos com ênfase em história das ciências e ensino de ciências, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: história da química no Brasil e aplicação da história como ferramenta para o ensino de ciências.