Aldo Zarbin, current president of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ) and professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), was named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He dHe completed his master's degree (1993) and doctorate (1997) at the Solid State Chemistry Laboratory at Unicamp, working, respectively, with antimoniates and the incorporation of organometallic compounds and polymers into porous glasses. Find out more in the edition of LQES News of 1's February 2018.