Sidney Jose Lima RibeiroFull Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Araraquara-SP, Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo. Member o the European Academy of Sciences. Coordination of the Chemistry Division of FAPESP (Funding agency of the State of São Paulo). Vice-coordinator of the National Institute of Photonics, Brazil (http: //inct.info/en/). Associate Editor of the Journal "Frontiers in Chemistry- Inorganic Chemistry". Member of the international board of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. Member of the international board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. Main interests are in Inorganic Chemistry and its implications in Materials Science, Spectroscopy and Education in Chemistry. On-going research projects deal with natural polymers (bacterial cellulose and silk fibroin), organic-inorganic hybrids, waveguides (optical fibers and thin films), porous materials and luminescent markers for Medicine. Invited researcher at NIRIM - National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials - Tsukuba, Japan. Visiting Professor at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, University of Angers, Angers, France, University of Toulouse, Toulouse France. University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz De Fora-MG, Brazil. Supervision of over 22 M.Sc. students, 23 PhD´s and 12 pos-doc researchers. Scientific production: -MyCitations Google Scholar- 12232 citations h=58 i10-index=261, 19 patents. Read More Read Less