Draft:Ado Jorio

Ado Jorio de Vasconcelos, scientific signature Ado Jorio, is a Brazilia physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His work focuses on nanostructures as applied to new materials and biomedicine. He is author of the books "Group Theory: Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter" (Springer, 2008) and "Raman Spectroscopy in Graphene Related Systems" (WileyVCH 2011). He is editor of the books "Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications" (Springer, 2008) and "Bioengineering Applications of Carbon Nanostructures" (Springer, 2016). He was awarded the Somiya Award by the International Union of Materials Research Societies (2009), Elsevier/CAPES Scopus Brazil award 2009, the ICTP Prize by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (2012), the Georg Forster Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation (2015), and the medal "Medalha da Inconfidência" by the Minas Gerais State Government (2016). He is a Fellow of the Brazilian Society of Physics and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He received the "membership award to the American Chemical Society" (2015). In 2016 he was indexed at the Thomson Reuters' "Highly Cited Researchers".