Juliana Guimarães

Dr. Juliana Guimarães is a microbiologist specialized in biomineralization, development and characterization of biomaterials. She obtained her PhD in Biotechnology and Bioprocesses at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with an exchange at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) funded by the CAPES-PrInt Program, in Strasbourg, France, in which she developed and characterized new nanotools based on biological-originated magnetite for water treatment through cutting-edge techniques such as gas-phase in situ transmission electron microscopy (GP TEM).

After, Juliana had a postdoctoral position at the IPCMS focused on the use of liquid-phase in situ transmission electron microscopy (LP TEM) for the monitoring of evolution of bio- and chemically synthesized nanomaterials. This was followed by a second postdoctoral position at the Plateforme Aquitaine de Caractérisation des Matériaux (PLACAMAT), in collaboration with the Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), in Pessac, France, and the IPCMS, for the development and establishment of LP TEM at the platform and study the biomineralization process of gold nanoparticles by microalgae, using Euglena gracilis as model.

Now, Juliana integrated the Living Materials Group as a visiting researcher aiming the application of magnetotactic bacteria in Biotechnology.