Marcos Eberlin

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin (Campinas, Born::March 4, 1959) has a Bachelor's degree (1982), MA (1984) and Doctorate (1988) in Chemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Aston Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry at Purdue University, USA (1989-1991).

He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2002) and Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2005). . He is currently Professor MS-6, of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas), in which he is Coordinator of the Thomson Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry (http://thomson.iqm.unicamp.br). He is currently the president of the IMSF, the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation and also associate editor of the Journal of Mass Spectrometry.

Professor Marcos is a prominent advocate of intelligent design in Brazil and has given lectures and participated in discussions on this topic. He is present in the list named "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism".

One of his daughters, Livia Eberlin Sanders, also formed at UNICAMP, won the U.S. prize for best thesis in Chemistry in 2013, the Nobel Laureate Signature Award from the American Chemical Society. Lívia, like her father, is an advocate of intelligent design.

The Eberlin reaction
A chemical reaction was named after Eberlin, the Polar Acetalization and Transacetalization in the Gas Phase.