Research Group in Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
Laboratory of Automation and Analytical Instrumentation - LAIA


Instituto de Química - Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

 Lúcio Angnes and Claudimir L. do Lago (and until retirement in 2026, Ivano G. R. Gutz)

• Objectives
• Research activities
• Techniques
• Group members
• Admission of students
• Cooperation
• Services
• Address

General Objetives

• Prepare human resources in research - from undergraduates to post-docs - emphasizing creativity, cooperation and interdisciplinary actuation centered in analytical chemistry;
• Search and apply analytical solutions that are more effective and economical in areas like the environment, process and quality control, routine and research laboratories, fitting into the broader goal of advancing analytical science and improving life quality.

Preferential research activities

• Invention, development, automation, evaluation and/or application
  of:
• sensors, devices, methods, techniques and/or systems
  for:
• sampling, separation, accumulation, speciation and/or measurement of low concentrations
  of:
• of inorganic species (including toxic metals) and certain organic analytes
  in
• real samples, in the laboratory, at processes or in the field.

Techniques and instrumental approaches

• electroanalysis
• chemical sensors
• spectroelectroanalysis 
  
• mass spectrometry
• liquid chromatography
• capillary electrophoresis
• chemometrics
• flow analysis
• microfabrication of devices 
  
• sampling/processing of environmental species 
  
• separation/pre-concentration/speciation of analytes

Admission of students

New students are admitted every year, to replace the co-workers that obtained their Master or PhD degree or have finished their Post-Doc stay. The broad range of research activities can be evaluated by visiting the laboratory or examining the supervisor's curricula. Frequently, projects can fit the candidate's profile, by dosing the following two mainstreams:

a) Central interest is interdisciplinary research involving new devices, instrumentation, electronic circuits, interfaces or software for system control and data analysis.

b) Main focus on real analytical problems, e.g., related to the environment or quality control, preferentially using systems and methods from ongoing research of co-workers with profile a).

Brazil maintains cooperation agreements with many countries, some of them comprising funds for exchange of researchers. In Brazil, the research granta cannot be spent with students, that are suported with specific fellowships provided by a number of funding agencies. Students shall apply a specific PhD or post-doc project with their supervisor and wait a couple of months for the decision.

Cooperation

The group already interacts with colleagues from other institutions and is receptive to new synergistic cooperation and joint projects with scientists from other universities and research centers.

Analytical and consultant services

Considered when related to ongoing research in subjects where the group has higher expertise than other laboratories in the country.

Address

Lúcio Angnes, e-mail: luangnes@iq.usp.br
Claudimir Lucio do Lago, e-mail: claudemi@iq.usp.br
Phone: (11) 3091-3781 (lab.), (11) 3091-3828 (LA,CLL).
Instituto de Química - USP (see map of USP)
Block12 Sup., labs. 1266 to 1276
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 748
05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Ivano Gebhardt Rolf Gutz (retired), e-mail: gutz@iq.usp.br;