Vadim R Viviani
Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Biography
Vadim R Viviani has been completed his degree in Biological Sciences from the Catholic University of Campinas (1990 ) , doctorate in biochemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo ( 1996) , postdocs in Shizuoka- Japan University (1997-1999 ) and Harvard University (1999-2002 ) and professor ( 2014) by the Institute of Chemistry , University of São Paulo. He is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos , leads the research group " Bioluminescence and Biophotonics " (CNPq ), and guest researcher at the Nat. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ( Tsukuba , Japan ) and Univ. Vanderbilt ( Nashville, TN , USA ) , and president of the International Society for Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence . Investigates bioluminescence enzymes luciferases and biotechnological and environmental use.