Patricio Rodrigo Montecinos Muñoz
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Departamento
GMG: Mineralogia e Geotectônica
Contato
patricio.m.munoz@usp.br
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Resumo
His initial background is in radiogenic-isotope geochemistry. He earned a PhD degree in Chile and France and completed postdoctoral research in Mexico and Brazil. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a consultant geologist in the mining industry. Since 2013, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.Driven by a constant desire to learn, he has included small-angle scattering techniques (SAS) in his research toolbox since 2020. He now focuses on applying SAS to investigate microstructural properties relevant to applied geochemistry. This emphasis leads him to conduct interdisciplinary research using experimental approaches in large international facilities to characterise complex biogeochemical systems.He focuses his strongest professional interest on the microstructural and dynamic aspects of the uptake of heavy metals (HMs) and chalcogenide elements by biomaterials. He has led interdisciplinary teams at Advanced Photon Source (US, 2022), Sirius (Brazil, 2024), and the ISIS Neutron Muon Source (UK, 2024 and 2025). In the most recent neutron scattering experiments, his team studied the kinetics of metal-resistant bacteria in response to interactions with Hg and SiO2 NPs, providing insights into bacterial microstructure for bioremediation. Always basing his work on SAS, he plans to focus his future research on both bacterial refinement of heavy chalcogenides from mineral matrices (for industrial mining applications) and liposomes for HM removal from polluted organisms (with possible medical applications).
Última Atualização em 24/11/2025
Formação Acadêmica
Graduação
Curso: Geologia
Instituição: Universidade de Chile
Ano de Conclusão: 2003
Doutorado
Curso: Doctorado en Ciencias
Instituição: Universidade de Chile
Ano de Conclusão: 2008
Doutorado
Curso: doctorat en sciences de l'univers
Instituição: Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
Ano de Conclusão: 2008
Pós-Doutorado
Instituição: Universidade de São Paulo
Ano de Conclusão: 2013
Pós-Doutorado
Instituição: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
Ano de Conclusão: 2009
Últimos Artigos Publicados
VÁSQUEZ-PONCE, FELIPE ; GAMBOA-ACUÑA, NICOLAS ; DE OLIVEIRA, ALINE PEREIRA ; BECERRA, JOHANA ; PARIONA, JESUS G.M. ; DE OLIVEIRA LIMA, LEON ; DE CARVALHO ELIAS, ALINE ; LUZ, MACIEL SANTOS ; RIBAS, MATEUS ROCHA ; ROCHA, GUSTAVO ; ESPOSITO, FERNANDA ; MUÑOZ, PATRICIO ; MOREIRA, EDSON GONÇALVES ; NOMURA, CASSIANA SEIMI ; SINCERO, THAIS ; BARBIERI, EDISON ; LINCOPAN, NILTON . Arsenic bioaccumulation in ready-to-eat oysters can contribute to the selection of WHO critical priority Enterobacterales displaying a virulent behavior . FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, v. 215, p. 116684, 2025.
Montecinos Munoz, Patricio ; PONCE, F. V. ; ILAVSKY, JAN ; LEAO, J. ; OLIVEIRA, CRISTIANO LUIS PINTO ; ANOVITZ, L. . SANS probing of bacteria-silica-Hg interactions as encapsulation mechanism of mercury . ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal, v. 01, p. 0001, 2024.
Montecinos Munoz, Patricio ; CLASER, C. ; VÁSQUEZ-PONCE, FELIPE ; PARNELL, S. ; LEMONCHE, L. P. . TOF-SESANS probing of variations in size polydispersity of bacteria along Hg and SiO2NPs simultaneous biosorption: a follow-up of proposal 2024196 . ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal, v. 1, p. 1, 2024.
MUNOZ, PATRICIO ; ILAVSKY, JAN ; NEWVILLE, MATTHEW ; WETTER, NIKLAUS U. ; LOURENÇO, RAFAEL ANDRÉ ; BARBOSA DE ANDRADE, MARCELO ; MARTINS, TEREZA S. ; DIPOLD, JESSICA ; FREITAS, ANDERSON Z. ; CIDES DA SILVA, LUIS CARLOS ; OLIVEIRA, CRISTIANO LUIS PINTO . (U)SAXS characterization of porous microstructure of chert: insights into organic matter preservation . JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, v. 56, p. 1, 2023.
LINO, LUCAS MARTINS ; QUIROZ-VALLE, FRANCY ROXANA ; LOURO, VINICIUS ; BASEI, MIGUEL ÂNGELO STIPP ; VLACH, SILVIO ROBERTO FARIAS ; HUECK, MATHIAS ; MUNÕZ, PATRICIO RODRIGO MONTECINOS ; CITRONI, SÉRGIO BRANDOLISE . Structural architecture and the episodic evolution of the ediacaran Campo Alegre Basin (southern Brazil): Implications for the development of a synorogenic foreland rift and a post-collisional caldera-volcano . JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES, v. 107, p. 103147, 2021.
ALVES, ADRIANA ; JANASI, VALDECIR DE ASSIS ; PEREIRA, GIOVANNA DE SOUZA ; PRADO, FERNANDO ARAÚJO ; MUNOZ, PATRICIO R.M. . Unravelling the hidden evidences of magma mixing processes via combination of in situ Sr isotopes and trace elements analyses on plagioclase crystals . LITHOS, v. 404-405, p. 106435, 2021.
BARBOSA, N. ; TEIXEIRA, W. ; ÁVILA, C.A. ; Montecinos, P.M. ; BONGIOLO, E.M. ; VASCONCELOS, F.F. . U-Pb geochronology and coupled Hf-Nd-Sr isotopic-chemical constraints of the Cassiterita Orthogneiss (2.47-2.41-Ga) in the Mineiro belt, São Francisco craton: Geodynamic fingerprints beyond the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Transition . PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, v. 326, p. 399-416, 2019.
FUENTES-CASTILLO, DANNY ; FARFÁN-LÓPEZ, MARIELLA ; ESPOSITO, FERNANDA ; MOURA, QUÉZIA ; FERNANDES, MIRIAM R. ; LOPES, RALF ; CARDOSO, BRENDA ; MUÑOZ, MARIA E. ; CERDEIRA, LOUISE ; NAJLE, IGNACIA ; Muñoz, Patricio M. ; CATÃO-DIAS, JOSÉ L. ; GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA, DANIEL ; LINCOPAN, NILTON . Wild owls colonized by international clones of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (CTX-M)-producing Escherichia coli and Salmonella Infantis in the Southern Cone of America . SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, v. 674, p. 554-562, 2019.
Munoz, Patricio Montecinos ; ALVES, ADRIANA ; AZZONE, ROGÉRIO GUITARRARI ; CORDENONS, PABLO ; MORANO, SANDRA ; SPROESSER, WALTER ; SOUZA, SOLANGE DE . In situ Sr isotope analyses by LA-MC-ICP-MS of igneous apatite and plagioclase from magmatic rocks at the CPGeo-USP . Brazilian Journal of Geology, v. 46, p. 227-243, 2016.
AZZONE, ROGÉRIO GUITARRARI ; Montecinos Munoz, Patricio ; ENRICH, GASTON EDUARDO ROJAS ; ALVES, ADRIANA ; RUBERTI, EXCELSO ; GOMES, CELSODE BARROS . Petrographic, geochemical and isotopic evidence of crustal assimilation processes in the Ponte Nova alkaline mafic-ultramafic massif, SE Brazil . LITHOS, v. 260, p. 58-75, 2016.