Rate My Professor Moacir Rossi Forim

Moacir Rossi Forim is a Professor Associado III in the Department of Chemistry at Universidade Federal de São Carlos. He earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Technological Chemistry from Universidade Estadual de Londrina in 2001. He completed his doctorate in Sciences, with a focus on Organic Chemistry and the subarea of Natural Products Chemistry, at Universidade Federal de São Carlos in 2006. His doctoral research involved a phytochemical study of the graft of Azadirachta indica on Melia azedarach, including quantification of insecticidal substances. He undertook postdoctoral training at Embrapa Instrumentação Agropecuária in 2006 and at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2014, focusing on analytical instrumentation.

His research specializes in natural products chemistry, chemical ecology, and nanotechnology applied to natural products. Current projects center on identifying bioactive molecules for the direct or indirect control of insect pests, microorganisms, and applications in medicinal chemistry, incorporating studies in chemical ecology, proteomics, metabolomics, nano- and microencapsulation of natural products and entomopathogenic microorganisms, and biodegradation processes. He is affiliated with the Graduate Program in Chemistry and the Graduate Program in Biotechnology at UFSCar.