Monica Monica

Formulates and delivers specialized graduate-level curriculum on advanced composite materials for remote/hybrid engineering cohorts. Structures digital frameworks and technical metrics to facilitate interactive learning and student engagement.

- Formulate and deliver specialized graduate-level curriculum on advanced composite materials for remote/hybrid engineering cohorts.
- Structure clear digital frameworks and technical metrics to facilitate interactive learning and student engagement.

Portfolio Turnaround & Pricing: Manage a global portfolio for electronics and solar applications, utilizing Voice of Customer (VoC) analysis to introduce several products/year and implementing a strategic repricing initiative for top-selling lines to defend core market share.
R&D Commercialization & Sustainability: Drove global technology roadmapping (nanomaterials, 3D printable inks) and academic

Research center dedicated to technological discoveries at the nanoscale.
• Authored grant proposals as PI, and co-PI at U.S. organizations; achieved 70% award rate.
• Submitted three patents and authored articles about smart materials and their applications in journals such as Science and Advanced Materials; >3000 citations since 2016.
• Development and characterization of fiber-like smart materia

• Development, characterization, and integration of nano and smart fiber-like materials (e.g. materials that sense their environment and actuate or generate electricity) into systems (e.g. smart textiles, orthotics, and robotics).
• Synthesis and characterization of thin films in cleanroom environment for catalyst production of carbon nanotube forests and for templating purposes on smart materia

Internationally recognized and ranked among the best universities in the country.
• Responsible to research, select, and modify natural fibers to produce hybrid composites for the automotive industry, in collaboration with industrial partners, while mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in research.
• Edited a book and contributed to few book chapters.

One of the world’s largest bus manufacturers, committed to investing in design and technology.
• Designed and explored eco-sustainable hybrid composites using natural fibers and glass fibers embedded in a polymer matrix through RTM. Recycling cost reduction by 30% while kept other product requirements.

Developed and characterized carbon nanotube glass nanocomposites though sol-gel and spark-plasma sintering. One of the pioneers in carbon nanotube glass nanocomposites.

Developed and characterized thin conductive films of carbon nanotubes through dip-coating, filtration method, spray-coating and electrophoretic deposition. Granted a patent on electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes. Characterization of carbon nanotubes and development of new method of characterization- dynamic percolating method.

• Pioneered carbon nanotubes research in the institution.
• Authored grant proposals as PI, co-PI, and senior director for Brazilian, French, and German organizations; achieved 100% award rate with seven awarded grant proposals.
• Responsible for the planning, designing, and lecturing of classes about glasses during two semesters. During this period, I designed and created a new syllabus for the

One of the largest manufacturers of raw petrochemical materials in the world at a single industrial site.
• Studied, synthesized and characterized protective glass-ceramic coatings against carburization of pyrolysis tubes, as well as characterized post-mortem pyrolysis tubes.

Manufacturer of small tailored ceramic products.
• Development and fabrication of enamel patterns for industry: activities at the Development Laboratory 2 in Mercury S.A. included the incorporation of pigments into enamels and the development of tile patterns through screen printing technique.

Internationally renowned Materials Science research unit at one of the world’s oldest universities.
• Awarded a CAPES fellowship and a French COFECUB grant to develop the research activities.
• Research in carbon nanotubes fabrication and characterization: production of catalyst and growth of carbon nanotubes. Identified the best surface treatment for carbon nanotubes to acquire a good dispersibil

World-class research institute focused on solids at the nanoscale.
• Awarded CNPq international fellowship to develop the research activities.
• Successfully developed novel cheap and fast method to evaluate the aspect ratio of CNT: the 'dynamic percolation technique'.
• Developed and characterized optically transparent and electrically conductive CNT films and contributed to the development of a

Internationally recognized and ranked among the best universities in the country.
• Awarded CAPES fellowship for research activities in Brazil.
• Research in carbon nanotube (CNT) characterization and dispersion; CNT thin films that are transparent and electrically conductive;
• One of the world's pioneer on CNT glass composites: CNT glass nanocomposites prepared through sol-gel and densified by

Internationally recognized and ranked among the best universities in the country.
• Awarded CNPq fellowship for the two years of research activities.
• Pioneered 2 fields in the institution: glass-ceramics and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) research
• Awarded PETROBRAS Award of Technology (co-winner) for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNT) using natural gas, and demonstration of its (CNT) use on hy

Escuela Superior de Tecnología y Ciencias Experimentales, Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica at Universita Jaume I.
• Incorporation of pigments into the inorganic matrix through the sol-gel technique.

Internationally recognized and ranked among the best universities in the country.
• CNPq scholarship for Excellent Students for four years.
• Research assistant at the ceramic laboratory (Materials Engineering department) and at the high-pressure and advanced materials laboratory (Physics department). Investigated inorganic nanocomposites prepared through advanced techniques, and thermally insula

Master's research pioneering glass-ceramics and carbon nanotubes, including synthesis and characterization. Awarded CNPq fellowship and co-winner of PETROBRAS Technology Award.

Doctoral research on carbon nanotube networks, including fabrication, characterization, and nanocomposite development. Awarded CAPES fellowship for research in Brazil.

Doctoral research on carbon nanotube networks, including fabrication, characterization, and nanocomposite development. Awarded CAPES fellowship and French COFECUB grant.