Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani
São Paulo State University, Brazil
Biography
Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani has completed her PhD in Organic Chemistry and she is a full Professor at São Paulo State University, Brazil. She is a Fellow of the RSC (UK), Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and she has received several awards, most recent: 2014 CAPES-Elsevier Award, Distinguished Woman in Science Chemistry from ACS & IUPAC (2011); Simão Mathias Medal, the highest honor conferred by Brazilian Chemical Society (2011). She has completed her Post doctorate training at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPISU-USA) with Professor David Kingston (1993-1995), and in 2011, she was a Visiting Professor at Paris VI, UPMC. Currently she is a Member of the L’Oreal-SAB and TWAS. Her research field is plant science, focused on isolation, bioactivity, metabolomics of secondary metabolites and peptides from plants. She has 203 articles published, 1 book, 5 book chapters and 4 patents issued to her credit. She is also a Member of Biota-FAPESP biodiversity program.