Cássio Cardoso Santos Pedroso

Cassio C.S. Pedroso, received the graduation degree (with Hons.) in chemistry from the Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Ph.D. degree in science (with emphasis) in chemistry from the University of São Paulo, São Paulo. He was a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow with the Laboratory of Paolo Di Mascio, University of São Paulo, developing luminescent nanoparticles for addressing problems in generation of radical oxygen species and redox processes in cells. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, where his research focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles for bioimaging. He has a broad background covering nanoscience, spectroscopy, photo-physics, and chemical biology.