Purdue University
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Antonio Carlos Freitas dos Santos is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Renewable Resource Engineering at Purdue. He earned his Pharm.D. and bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 2013 from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and worked there as a medical affairs analyst before coming to Purdue. He received his master’s degree (2016) and Ph.D. (2018) in agricultural and biological engineering. His research focuses on achieving feasible and cost-effective production of bioproducts from processes toward increased efficiency and reduced costs. Through his doctoral research at Purdue, he has addressed reducing enzyme quantities needed to convert biomass to monomers, especially at industrially relevant concentrations of feedstock. As a research associate and bioprocess engineer at Purdue, he was a member of the team awarded a 2019 U.S. Department of Energy $1.3M two-year grant to explore modeling feedstock performance and conversion operations. He has served as a volunteer judge at local events, is a member of Alpha Epsilon Honor Society at Purdue, and has been a panelist, committee member, and session chair for numerous Purdue leadership activities. In his future academic endeavors, he plans to contribute to recruitment and retention of minority students, demonstrating that an effective support system is in place for them.

Research Interests

Protein interactions in bioprocesses and pharmaceuticals