Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series
Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Luiz Henrique Vieira (São Carlos Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil).
Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.
We launched our Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal and regularly select a recently published Communication article to feature in an interview-style Editorial article with the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members.
We are excited to share our latest Emerging Investigator, Dr Luiz Henrique Vieira (São Carlos Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil)!
Read our interview with Luiz here
Dr Luiz Henrique Vieira is an assistant professor at the São Carlos Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo (IQSC/USP), Brazil. He received his BSc (2012), MSc (2014) and PhD in chemistry (2018) from the Institute of Chemistry at São Paulo State University – UNESP. During his doctoral studies, he also spent a research period as a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, materials chemistry, and adsorption processes for sustainable chemical transformations. During his graduate studies, he worked on the development of bifunctional lamellar catalysts derived from zeolitic structures for the upgrading of renewable feedstocks into industrially relevant products. From 2018 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IQSC/USP within the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI), a São Paulo Research Foundation and Shell initiative, where he developed catalytic systems for the conversion of CH4, CO2, and CO. Between 2021 and 2023, he was a researcher and visiting professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), working on technological trends in the biofuels sector within the Brazilian National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) through the Human Resources Program (PRH). His current research focuses on the development of inorganic and hybrid organic–inorganic materials for catalytic processes and gas separation, with particular emphasis on CO2 capture and the conversion of environmentally relevant small molecules into value-added chemicals.
Congratulations to Luiz for his excellent work! You can read his featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.
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| Advances in the direct conversion of CH4 and CO2 into acetic acid over bimetallic catalysts supported on H-ZSM-5
Gabriel F. Lopes, Alessandra F. Lucrédio, Luiz H. Vieira and Elisabete M. Assaf Nanoscale Horiz., 2025, 10, 3051-3060 |
We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!
Do you publish innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology research? Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons now. If you are eligible for the Emerging Investigators series, you could be considered to feature in one of our future interviews! Find out more about the eligibility criteria and the process in this editorial introducing the series.
