Francesca Figaroli is an undergraduate student in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Technology at the “Avans University of Applied Sciences” in the city of Breda, Netherlands. At the moment she is realizing her internship of six months in São João del-Rei, in the research group GPQM, headed by the professor Marco Antonio Schiavon. Her focus is on new type of ecofriendly quantum dots that will be able to increase the efficiency of the third generation of solar cells.

(August 2023 - January 2024)

Graduated in Biotechnology Engineering from Ikiam Amazon Regional University  (EC) in 2023. She is currently a master student in the Postgraduate Program in Physics and Chemistry of Materials (FQMAT) at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ) and a CAPES scolarship holder. She is an international member of the Research Group in Chemistry of Materials (GPQM), supervised by Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio SCHIAVON. Interested in biomaterials research and the development of innovative technical solutions that contribute to remediation and sustainability challenges. Works with bacterial cellulose and its biotechnological-chemical improvement to be used as a matrix for adsorption and/or photocatalysis of pollutants in aqueous solutions. She believes that science and innovation integrated with society are the basis to resiliently manage the future challenges of Latin America.

Graduated in Pure Chemistry from the University of Cartagena at Colombia in 2017. Specialist in Applied and Computational Physics from the University of Cartagena da Colombia in 2021. Currently studying for a Master's Degree in Material Physics and Chemistry at the Federal University of São João del Rei (UFSJ) and Research development of the Materials Chemistry Research Group (GPQM) involving Carbon Dots. 

(2021 - 2023 - Master)

(2024 - 2028 - Ph.D)