Claudio C. Silveira was born in 1962 in Bom Jesus (RS), Brazil. He

received his under graduate education at Federal University of Santa Maria

(Brazil, 1983) and MSc from University of São Paulo under Professor J. V.

Comasseto (1986). He completed PhD thesis in 1988 under the guidance of

Professor J. V. Comasseto at University of São Paulo, during the course of

which he spent one year in the group of Professor J. P. Marino at University

of Michigan, USA. He began his independent academic at Londrina State

University (1988) then moved to Federal University of Santa Maria in 1991.

During 1994–1995, he spent one year at Georg-August Universita¨t

Go¨ttingen, Germany, in the laboratory of Professor Armin de Meijere as

a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests have centered around the

development of new synthetic methodologies, based mainly on organophosphorus

and organochalcogen chemistry and their application to the

synthesis of natural products.

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