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Former Pro-Rector for Research and Graduate Studies
Former senior university administrator at UEM with strategic responsibility for institutional research policy, postgraduate education, scientific development, and research-support initiatives.
Luiz Fernando Cótica, PhD
Editorial Leadership
Luiz Fernando Cótica, PhD
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials (JDHAB)
Department of Physics
State University of Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Department of Physics
State University of Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Magnetic Nanomaterials Multiferroic Materials Materials Characterization Biomedical Technologies Nanomedicine AI-Assisted Materials Research
Materials Science Functional Materials · Nanomaterials · Structure–Property Relationships
Research Leadership Scientific Governance · Innovation · Research Infrastructure
Emerging Methods Biomedical Technologies · Machine Learning · Data-Driven Materials Research
Scientific and Professional Trajectory
Professional Profile
Luiz Fernando Cótica is a physicist, professor, and materials scientist whose academic trajectory is centered on the synthesis, investigation, and advanced characterization of functional materials. He holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Physics from the State University of Maringá (UEM) and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
His research encompasses magnetic, ferroelectric, multiferroic, ceramic, nanostructured, and multifunctional materials, with particular interest in structure–property relationships and the development of materials for technological and biomedical applications.
His scientific activity increasingly connects materials science with biomedical technologies, sustainable energy, and computational approaches, including machine-learning methods for the prediction and interpretation of material properties.
Academic Governance
Academic and Research Leadership
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Graduate Program Leadership
Former Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Physics at UEM (2022–2024), with experience in postgraduate governance, researcher training, and academic planning.
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CNPq Research Productivity Fellow
Research Productivity Fellow — Level 2, reflecting sustained scientific productivity and leadership in Physics, functional materials, and materials-related research.
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Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation
Permanent faculty member in Environmental Biotechnology and active participant in research and innovation networks, including scientific leadership in multifunctional materials, nanostructured systems, and translational applications.
International Scientific Engagement
Scientific Communication and International Engagement
Cótica maintains active engagement with national and international scientific communities through conferences, collaborative research networks, scientific presentations, academic partnerships, and institutional internationalization initiatives.
His international academic experience includes postdoctoral research and continued scientific collaboration with the University of Texas at San Antonio. Recent collaborative activities include machine-learning approaches and neural-network models for the prediction of properties in ferroelectric and perovskite materials.
He has also contributed to institutional internationalization initiatives involving expanded research collaboration, academic mobility, and international scientific partnerships.
Experimental Infrastructure
Research Infrastructure and Materials Characterization
His scientific activities are closely connected with advanced research infrastructure at UEM. He participates in the coordination of electron microscopy facilities within the university's Central Research Support Complex (COMCAP), including infrastructure for scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
His research environment also includes infrastructure dedicated to chemical synthesis, magnetic measurements, X-ray diffraction, electrical characterization, ferroelectric and dielectric measurements, and thermal processing.
Electron Microscopy
X-Ray Diffraction
Magnetic & Dielectric Characterization
Functional Materials Processing
Scientific Publishing
Editorial Role at JDHAB
As Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials, Luiz Fernando Cótica contributes to the journal's scientific direction, editorial governance, scope development, and evaluation of research involving advanced biomaterials, nanomaterials, materials characterization, and interdisciplinary biomedical technologies.
His editorial contribution is particularly relevant to the assessment of experimental evidence involving material synthesis, physicochemical characterization, microscopy, structure–property relationships, analytical methodology, and the translation of materials-science findings toward biomedical and technological applications.
Research Areas
Research and Scholarly Focus
Magnetic Nanomaterials Synthesis, characterization, and investigation of magnetic behavior in nanoscale and multifunctional material systems.
Multiferroic and Functional Materials Ferroelectric, magnetic, magnetoelectric, and coupled physical properties in advanced functional materials.
Materials Characterization Structural, microscopic, physicochemical, magnetic, dielectric, and experimental characterization of advanced materials.
Materials Processing Sol-gel synthesis, ceramic systems, high-energy milling, structural refinement, and functional-material processing routes.
Biomedical Technologies Translation of advanced materials, nanostructured systems, and multifunctional technologies toward biomedical applications.
AI-Assisted Materials Research Machine learning, neural networks, data-driven property prediction, and computational approaches to materials research.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Research
Selected Scientific Contributions
Nanomedicine · Magnetic Nanoparticles
Chitosan-Coated Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Hyperthermia, and Drug Delivery
Multifunctional superparamagnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles combining chitosan coating, magnetic characterization, cytocompatibility, MRI, magnetic hyperthermia, and drug-delivery perspectives.
DOI →Cancer Nanotechnology
Doxorubicin-Loaded Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Induce Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Arrest in Breast Cancer Cells
Biomedical investigation of iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with doxorubicin, integrating nanomaterials, magnetic targeting, oxidative-stress mechanisms, and breast-cancer cell response.
DOI →Fourth-Generation Biomaterials
4th Generation Biomaterials Based on PVDF-Hydroxyapatite Composites Produced by Electrospinning: Processing and Characterization
Electrospun PVDF–hydroxyapatite composite scaffolds investigated for morphology, piezoelectric phase formation, bioactivity, and cytocompatibility in advanced biomedical applications.
DOI →Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles · Biointerfaces
Magneto-elasto-electroporation (MEEP): In-vitro visualization and numerical characteristics
Study of magnetically controlled electroporation using core–shell magnetoelectric nanoparticles, linking multiferroic materials, magnetic-field response, and cellular permeation.
DOI →Multiferroic Materials
Ferroic states and phase coexistence in BiFeO3-BaTiO3 solid solutions
Structural, electric, magnetic, and Mössbauer investigation of multiferroic solid solutions, with emphasis on phase coexistence and ferroic behavior.
DOI →Multiferroic Ceramics
Synthesis and multiferroism in mechanically processed BiFeO3-PbTiO3 ceramics
High-energy mechanical processing and reactive sintering of multiferroic ceramics, connecting synthesis conditions, microstructure, and ferroic properties.
DOI →Intellectual Property and Applied Innovation
Patents, Utility Models and Technological Innovation
Utility Model2018
Reômetro adaptável à máquina universal de ensaios
Adaptable rheometer conceived for integration with a universal testing machine.
Patent of Invention2019
Obtenção de nanobiocompósitos de magnetita associados ao fungo endofítico Bjerkandera sp. com atividade biorremediadora de corantes têxteis
Nanobiocomposite platform combining magnetite and an endophytic fungus for textile-dye bioremediation.
Patent of Invention2020
Processo de produção de um nanobiocompósito para o controle de Diatraea saccharalis
Biotechnological nanobiocomposite process directed toward control of the sugarcane borer.
Utility Model2020
Dispositivo para gerar campos magnéticos alternados com frequências e amplitudes variáveis e sintonizáveis
Device for generating tunable alternating magnetic fields with variable frequency and amplitude.
Patent of Invention2020
Processo de obtenção de nanobiocompósito de Aspergillus flavus endofítico e nanopartículas magnéticas (Fe3O4) com potencial de biorremediação de corante e sua reutilização
Applied nanobiotechnology integrating endophytic microorganisms and magnetic nanoparticles for dye bioremediation and material reuse.
Books and Scholarly Chapters
Selected Book and E-book Contributions
Book chapter · 2026
Nanopartículas magnetoelétricas na oncologia ginecológica: fundamentos físicos, avanços da nanomedicina e perspectivas para o tratamento do câncer de ovário
Chapter connecting magnetoelectric nanoparticle physics with nanomedicine and emerging strategies for gynecologic oncology, coauthored by Denise Alanis and Luiz Fernando Cótica.
DOI →
Book chapter · 2018
Nanotecnologia e Micro-Organismos
Chapter by A. Garcia, Luiz Fernando Cótica, P. N. Oliveira, and S. A. Rhoden addressing nanotechnology at the interface with microorganisms and environmental biotechnology.
Collective e-book · 2024
Energias Zero Carbono
Collective scientific work addressing zero-carbon energy, emissions mitigation, renewable generation, energy harvesting, storage technologies, batteries, supercapacitors, and green hydrogen. Luiz Fernando Cótica is listed among the authors.
DOI →
Collaborative e-book
Almanaque NAPI EZC
Collaborative publication of the NAPI Energia Zero-Carbono network presenting emerging sustainable-energy technologies, greenhouse-gas mitigation, electric vehicles, photovoltaic systems, energy harvesting, magnetic sensors, circular economy, and energy-efficiency research.
DOI →
Book chapter · Environmental Biotechnology
Desenvolvimento e aplicação de nanomateriais e nanopartículas na biotecnologia
Chapter by Andressa Domingos Polli, Elisa Parcero Hernandes, and Luiz Fernando Cótica focused on the development and application of nanomaterials and nanoparticles within environmental biotechnology.
Book DOI →Editorial Perspective
Contribution to the JDHAB Scientific Scope
Cótica's expertise provides a fundamental materials-science perspective within the multidisciplinary structure of JDHAB. His background supports the rigorous assessment of studies in which material composition, synthesis, morphology, microstructure, physicochemical properties, and analytical characterization are central to the interpretation of biomedical performance.
This perspective is particularly important for research involving advanced biomaterials, magnetic and multifunctional nanomaterials, biomedical devices, diagnostic or therapeutic technologies, and emerging material systems in which claims of biological or clinical relevance must be supported by adequate physical and physicochemical characterization.
His experience at the interface of experimental materials science, biomedical applications, scientific infrastructure, nanomedicine, intellectual property, scientific publishing, machine learning, innovation, and international collaboration complements the clinical and digital-health expertise of the journal's broader editorial structure.
