João Batista Rodrigues Neto is Graduated in Chemical Engineering (1989), Master in Mechanical Engineering (1994), and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (1999), all from the Federal University of Santa Catarina He is currently Associate Professor at the same university. He has experience in Materials Engineering, with an emphasis on Ceramics and Composites. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio in Madrid, Spain (2005-2006) and a senior postdoctoral fellow in the CERMAT / LABMAT of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2009-2010). He actuated as Visiting Scholar at the Laboratory of Thermochemistry of Nanoceramics, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of California-Davis (2018-2019). He worked at Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) and Wiest S.A as a development engineer. His current research interests are rheology of suspension, colloidal processing of ceramics and nanostructured composites, and sintering and nanostability.