Memorial Descritivo para promoção a Titular do Prof. Roberto Chang - Uma viagem no tempo

Abstract

In this report, I present an account of the most relevant facts in my short academic career, from undergraduate and graduate studies to the present date (16 years) at UFU. The four pillars of UFU are addressed: Research, Teaching, Extension and Management. However, there is no greater or lesser emphasis on one or another of these four areas, but rather according to the opportunities, given the specificities and characteristics of each one of them. In Research, I have about 40 articles and more than one hundred papers presented at conferences. I have supervised several students in IC, TCC, internship and master's degrees. I have written two projects to request support for conferences from Fapemig. I have reviewed hundreds of manuscripts as an Ad-Hoc reviewer. In Teaching, I spent more than 16 years with classes full of students, sometimes with 16 hours of classes per week, more than 80 students and general chemistry classes. In the extension, I participate in the group "Colors of Hope", which held a meeting and a workshop on the preparation of natural dyes for use in health institutions. In Management, I have been part of numerous internal committees, which unfortunately were worth almost nothing (0.1). I was the coordinator responsible for writing, sending, acquiring and maintaining a High-Efficiency Liquid Chromatography System, with a Diode Array (UV) and Light Scattering detector valued at the time at around 300 thousand reais. Currently, I am part of 4 internal committees of the unit, such as the Internal Purchasing Committee, the Permanent Electoral Committee (since 2006), the Internal Committee for Revalidation of Chemistry Degrees, and the Coordination of the Teaching Laboratories of the Chemistry Institute (since 2012). In the electoral committee, I spent 16 years holding elections for the director of the Chemistry Institute, coordinator of the postgraduate program in chemistry, coordinator of the Industrial Chemistry and Bachelor's degree courses, as well as for the members of the respective committees. In addition, I always performed preventive and corrective maintenance on melting point devices, spectrophotometers, gas and liquid chromatographs, as well as computers and equipment interfaces, saving tens of thousands of dollars to the public coffers. In this way, my contribution went far beyond the two cents, in the 4 pillars that exist.