Francisco Radler de Aquino Neto (b. 1948) is Professor Emeritus at UFRJ (2013), with a career that began in 1968 as a teaching assistant and culminated as Full Professor (1993–2012). He earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry (1969), D.Sc. (1978) at UFRJ, and completed postdoctoral studies in Strasbourg (organic synthesis and molecular geochemistry) and Cambridge (multidimensional NMR). He has held visiting positions at international institutions and supervised over 200 students across all academic levels. His record includes over 400 scientific articles, more than 600 conference presentations, and coordination of 126 funded projects. Founder of several laboratories at IQ-UFRJ, notably LADETEC, he established facilities recognized with multiple accreditations and awards. He has received major honors such as the Simão Mathias Medal (SBQ, 2000), the National Order of Scientific Merit (2010), Lavoisier Medal (2011), and Athos da Silveira Ramos Medal (2018), and has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2000. A pioneer of mass spectrometry in Brazil, he has been listed in international rankings including the Power List 2020 and the Top 10,000 Scientists of Latin America (2023). Since 1982, he has also worked as an academic and industrial consultant in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, fine chemistry, and environmental sectors. http://lattes.cnpq.br/8181788948588711 and orcid.org/0000-0003-2374-9228.