César Ricardo Teixeira Tarley, a young researcher with a distinguished and internationally recognized career, kindly gave an interview to BrJAC

César Ricardo Teixeira Tarley is Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the State University of Londrina (UEL, PR, Brazil), Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) since 2007, has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (UEM, PR, Brazil) (1998), a Master's Degree in Applied Chemistry from UEM (2001), a Doctorate in Natural Sciences (Analytical Chemistry) from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, SP, Brazil) (2004), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Analytical Chemistry from UNICAMP (2005) under the supervision of Prof. Lauro Tatsuo. Since 2019, Dr. Tarley has been considered one of the most influential researchers in the world (Plos Biology - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918) and among the top chemists in Brazil (research.com) in the 2022 and 2023 rankings. He was an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL, MG, Brazil) (2005-2009) and at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU, MG, Brazil) (2009-2010). From 2006 to 2009, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Master's Degree Programs in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UNIFAL, a member of the Board of Directors of the Doctoral Program in Chemistry associated with UEL, Central-Western State University (UNICENTRO) and Ponta Grossa State University (UEPG). Dr. Tarley was also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Research Promotion Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) in 2009, Vice Head (2014-2016) and Head of the Chemistry Department at UEL (2016-2018), Representative of the Central Committee for Extension (CCE) in the Ethics Committee for Research with Human Subjects at UEL (2015), Member of the Committee of the Program of Innovation and Information Technology (PROITI) (2015-2018), Member of the Committee of the Program of Scientific Initiation (ProIC) (2018-2019), Vice Coordinator of the Exact Sciences Advisory Committee of the Araucária Foundation (2017-2019), Coordinator of the UEL Chemistry Graduate Program (2019-2021), Vice Secretary of the Regional Brazilian Chemical Society in the State of Paraná (2021-2022), Consultant of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) (2017-2020). He is a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the State University of Londrina (UEL), Coordinator of the Advisory Committee for the Exact Sciences Area of the Araucária Foundation, and supervises undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in chemistry. He is also a permanent professor in the Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Food Science. He has been a coordinator and/or member of research projects financed by funding agencies (CNPq, Araucária Foundation of Paraná, FAPEMIG, CAPES, FINEP, and INCT-Bio). Dr. Tarley has experience in chemistry working on the following topics: development of chromatographic methodologies for the determination of contaminants and toxicants in food and pharmaceutical samples; development of electroanalytical methodologies for the determination of compounds of forensic, environmental, food, and clinical interest; and development of analytical methodologies for the determination of metals and micronutrients in food and environmental samples by atomic spectrometric techniques. Emphasis is placed on the use of chemically imprinted polymers and nanomaterials and liquid-liquid microextraction methods in method development. Dr. Tarley has published more than 260 scientific papers in international and national journals, has an h-index of 41 in ISI and 42 in Scopus, and more than 5942 citations in Web of Science and 6670 in Scopus. He has supervised 75 undergraduate students, 30 master's students, and 21 Ph.D. students, and has supervised 5 postdoctoral fellows.