Adriano M Bernardin holds a bachelor's degree (1991) and a master's degree (1994) in mechanical engineering and a doctorate (2006) in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and a postdoctoral degree (2012) from Universitat Jaume I (Spain) and (2016) from the University Federal of Santa Catarina (Brazil). He is currently a professor at the University of Extremo Sul Catarinense (Criciúma, Brazil), where he works in the Graduate Programs in Materials Science and Engineering (2011) and Environmental Sciences (2012). At UNESC he is assistant coordinator of the mechanical engineering course (2016). He has experience in the field of ceramics, working mainly with traditional ceramics, glasses and glazes, geopolymers, nano-oxides and photocatalytic functional ceramics. He has coordinated the UNESC Ceramic Materials Group since 1998.