João Victor Coelho Pimenta

Research Interests

João Victor started his academic pathways at UFMG as an undergraduate chemistry student (2014). His research began with a main focus on organic chemistry and ambient ionization methods for mass spectrometry (2016). As an undergraduate student, he investigated the multicomponent Povarov reaction mechanism by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). His B.Sc. degree thesis was about the synthesis of palladium complex derivate of Schiff bases applied to Reck reaction in water (2018). He obtained his M.Sc. degree in organic chemistry (2021) by studying on-surface chemical reactions by paper spray ionization mass spectrometry (PS-MS), such as alcohol oxidation reaction by ruthenium salts and enzymatic deacetylation reaction. Nowadays, he is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at UFMG with a focus on the untargeted metabolomics analysis of Brazilian green coffee beans to evaluate geographical origin by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). Currently, João Victor is a visiting student in the Britz-McKibbin research group at McMaster University. His project aims to detect biomarkers of coffee intake in urine samples from the PURE (Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological) study by multisegment injection-capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (MSI-CE-MS).

Favorite Biological Specimen

Urine

Hobbies

Watching movies and series, cooking, and CrossFit