Reginaldo Gonçalves Leão Junior is a professor in the Basic Education division of the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais, Campus Arcos, where he teaches Physics, Transport Phenomena, General Chemistry, Heat Transfer and Applied Programming in the Mechanical Engineering program, and conducts research in the field of energy, focusing on the development of computational methods for the simulation of thermal conversion processes such as combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis, and in the use of Data Science to predict kinetic parameters and thermal properties of organic compounds and metal oxides. Dr. R. G. Leão Junior received his doctorate and master's degrees from the School of Engineering of the Federal University of Minas Gerais for his research in the application of stochastic numerical methods applied to ionizing radiation.