Biofuels & Bioenergy

Dr. Antonio J. A. Meirelles graduated in Food Engineering (School of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, FEA-UNICAMP, Brazil, 1980), master's degree in Food Engineering (FEA-UNICAMP, Brazil, 1984), PhD in Process Engineering at TH Merseburg (now Martin Luther University, Germany, 1987) and PhD in Economics (Institute of Economics, UNICAMP, Brazil, 1997). He is a professor at FEA-UNICAMP (Brazil) and Fellow of CNPq Research Productivity - Level 1A. He supervised 32 doctoral theses, 33 dissertations and 52 scientific initiation (undergraduate) works, and published 180 articles in scientific journals (h-index = 22), more than 176 full papers and 235 abstracts in conference proceedings, eight book chapters and one book. He also developed four patented processes or patent applications under review by the Brazilian Patent Office and was awarded the Young Scientist Award (First Place, 1989) and twice the Academic Recognition Award Zeferino Vaz (UNICAMP, 2001 and 2010). He conducts research on phase equilibrium thermodynamics, mass transfer phenomena and purification processes related to food processing and to the production of biofuels and biocompounds from oilseeds and sugarcane.