RESEARCH GROUPS Research activities developed at UNISC are interdisciplinary and seek to improve education, consolidate research groups, promote scientific research, strengthen relations with extension activities, advertise research activities, protect and appreciate knowledge, besides stimulating entrepreneurship, technological innovation and technology transfer. In this document you will find more information about UNISC's Research Groups. 2021
Biology and Health Sciences
Basic and Applied Studies in Zoology The lines of research are related to areas as "Basic and applied entomology", “Environmental monitoring and Genotoxicity", as well as “Animal production and health". The projects involve studies with domestic and wild animals, conducted by academics, workers and professors of the group. Besides basic research, activities applied to the development of new products in the different areas of zoology, linked to the Technology Incubator of UNISC (ITUNISC) are also developed.
Andreas Kohler
andreas@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7529
Study and Research Group in Health – GEPS The GEPS seeks to establish itself as an organizing space and generator of research and knowledge in the area of human health, in the different circumstances of human interaction with the environment and society in which they live. Today, it is a group with works corresponding to its lines of research, with emphasis on studies of family health, worker´s health, labor process in health, health management, programs and public policies in health.
Suzane Beatriz Frantz Krug
skrug@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7708
Limnology It studies the environmental monitoring in watersheds of Rio Grande do Sul state, as organic pollution, bacteriological quality, eutrophication and heavy metals. It also performs ecotoxicological and genotoxic analyses with the trophic level of primary consumers for samples of f resh surface water and groundwater, domestic sewage, industrial effluents and chemicals in general. In addition, it researches pollution prevention and remediation, different types of industrial effluents (textiles, tanneries, slaughterhouses), hospital waste, domestic sewage, gas stations and other effluents are being submitted to different types of chemical treatment, for detoxification.
Eduardo Alexis Lobo Alcayaga
lobo@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7519
Assistive Technology Research Center of UNISC The objective is to investigate and implement assistive technologies for people with some type of disability. The nature of the group is highly interdisciplinary. Work already developed by the group include tools to improve the quality of visually, hearing and motor impaired individuals´ daily life.
Leonel Pablo Tedesco
leoneltedesco@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7382
Well - Being and Health Promotion The research group proposes actions that impact on the undergraduate and graduate program, on the dissemination and socialization of knowledge along with health care, educational, cultural, sport and leisure institutions. It involves knowledge production in the area of promotion, prevention and comprehensive health care, human movement, health surveillance, and developments in relation to epidemiology, physical activity, food and metabolism.
Cézane Priscila Reuter
cezanereuter@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7602
Surveillance, prevention and rehabilitation in cardiorespiratory diseases It develops projects related to extension actions, whose main focus is f rom prevention to the cardiorespiratory and metabolic rehabilitation. Its line of research aims at evaluating the influence of the interdisciplinary approach in patients with chronic-degenerative diseases; studying the increase in morbidity and mortality caused by these diseases, the increase of the population life expectancy; assessing how the interdisciplinary interventions can minimize or control the outcomes related to pathological processes.
Andréa Lúcia Gonçalves da Silva
andreag@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7487
Fungi Taxonomy It seeks to gather information on taxonomy and applications, through basic surveys and identification of Basidiomycota fungi, especially of the order Agaricales, in Brazil and Antarctica. In addition to taxonomy, studies on the cultivation of wild mushroom species (mainly Pleurotus and Auricularia) are being carried out, using alternative substrates from agriculture and agribusiness.
Marisa Terezinha Lopes Putzke
marisa@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7360
Technology, Education and Patient Safety The group articulates the missions of the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (Unisc) and Hospital Santa Cruz (HSC) by believing in the integration of education and work in health as a fundamental element for the establishment of humanized care and excellence in the area. Its strategic themes are the patient´s safety, the continuing education, the innovation and the sustainability to promote knowledge construction, scientific advancement and technological innovation.
Marcelo Carneiro
marcelo@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3715-2965
Exact Sciences, Earth Sciences and Engineering
Biotechnology The group develops research in the areas of Analytic Biotechnology, Basic and Applied Microbiology, Human Biodynamics and Human Genetics. These studies seek to develop analytical methods in molecular biology and systems biology, develop fermentation processes applicable to the area of food and to obtain bioproducts of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
Valeriano Antonio Corbellini
valer@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7391
Environmental Science and Technology It develops research focused on environmental management, especially with Clean Process Technologies f rom the Life Cycle Analysis. Investigations are also made for the Treatment of waste, Treatment of water supply and wastewater, in these cases, aiming at the reuse of water, as well as energy and nutrients recovery, and food production.
enio@unisc.br
Ênio Leandro Machado
(+55 51) 3717-7390
Food Science and Technology The group develops research activities focused on the development of new food products and technologies associated with the agroindustrial processes, and analysis of food quality. In addition, it studies the technical and financial feasibility of productive activities in the food sector.
Liliane Marquardt
liliane@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7382
Technological Development – Industrial Processes and Materials The group works in the area of materials with emphasis on polymers and ceramics always concerned with the environmental aspects of production and applications in environmental technologies. Among these, the production of plastics reinforced with residues and catalysts for the degradation of pollutants or for air purification are also research focuses, as well as the optimization of production processes, waste management and treatment, and cleaner production.
Adriane Lawisch Rodríguez
adriane@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7382
Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Project Group – GPSEM Since 2004, the group has developed research in the areas of microelectronics, embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, robotics and data communication. Since then, a large part of research work has been directed to these areas considered as strategic ones.
Leonel Pablo Tedesco
leoneltedesco@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7382
Oil Chemistry and Bio fuels Production The lines of the research group Oleochemical and Biofuels production are: recovery of waste and by-products; analysis and transformation of essential oils; production of biofuels; and, production of microalgae aiming at the production of oil and biofuels with the use of alternative means.
Rosana de Cassia de Souza Schneider
rosana@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7390
Chemometrics The Chemometrics Research Group of UNISC works in the development of chemometric methods with emphasis on the development of mathematical models, software and analytical equipment using near inf rared spectroscopy and the green analytical chemistry principles.
Adilson Ben da Costa
adilson@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7713
Computer Systems that Support Education The central theme of the research is the development of artificial intelligence and knowledge management techniques, methodologies, computational systems and products to support the teaching-learning process, in various fields of the Education area and in Organizations in general.
Rejane Frozza
frozza@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7382
Industrial Systems and Processes The group aims at the generation of new technologies, as well as the training and qualification of human resources through the implementation and consolidation of teaching, research and extension in the area of Industrial Processes Control and Optimization. The group is engaged in three lines of research: Industrial Process Analytical Technology; Innovation and Technology in Industrial Systems and Processes; Industrial Process Management.
João Carlos Furtado
jcarlosf@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7632
Human Sciences
Poetic Studies: education and language Studies about the poetic dimension of language, triggered in 2000 f rom the phenomenological method of Gaston Bachelard, have been subsidizing both the teaching practice of professors/researchers in their actions of teaching and extension, as well as the research projects they are currently developing. At the moment, the group gathers research projects in communication among Literature, Arts, Music and Education of children from the philosophical assumption that th e poetic experience of language is the link that brings them together.
Sandra Regina Simonis Richter
srichter@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Local Socio-historical Formation The group brings together researchers who study topics related to social, economic, cultural, political and religious formation in levels of graduation, specialization, master's degree and doctorate. The general objective is to stimulate, discuss and disseminate interdisciplinary studies of local socio-historical formation that allow to focus the historical object from a more effective way, trying to identify economic, cultural, political and religious inter-relations over time.
josenasc@unisc.br
José Antonio Moraes do Nascimento
(+55 51) 3717-7379
Identity and Differences in Education The group is organized to the elaboration of research on culture and production of subjects in education f rom discussions related to identity-difference, knowledge-power relations and biopolitical governance strategies. It comprises, in an interdisciplinary perspective, issues related to health, social assistance, ethnic-racial relations, relations of gender and sexuality, childhood, inclusion, spatialities, curriculum, public policies an d teacher training.
Mozart Linhares da Silva
mozartls@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Language and Cognition It proposes to contribute to the improvement of linguistic studies in its interface with human cognition, focusing on aspects related to reading. The group studies aspects related to the processing of language, discussing issues involved, such as memory, attention and learning related to alphabetization and literacy, understanding and interpretation of texts. The group also seeks to discuss implications of the research in the area of reading and cognition, aiming at contributing to better educational practices.
Rosângela Gabriel
rgabriel@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7322
Languages, Culture and Education- LinCE The group is a cross-departmental and interinstitutional space of theoreticalmethodological interlocution of investigative actions on the educational problem arising from the cultural relationship between the dimensions of the language and the processes of learning.
Felipe Gustsack
fegus@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Clinical Processes, Subjectivity Methods and Public Policies This research group gathers, supports and joins efforts in research conducted by the area of Psychology of UNISC, providing greater visibility to its researchers´ actions. The lines of research are: modes of subjectivity in contemporary, and contemporary clinical practices and public policies.
jerto@unisc.br
Jerto Cardoso da Silva
(+55 51) 3717-7388
Study and Research Group on aging and citizenship Studies on the challenges of the population aging, the public policies related to this population, and issues related to health and well-being at this stage of life.
Silvia Virginia Coutinho Areosa
sareosa@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7488
Education, Labor and Emancipation Studies on the relationship between labor and education in the perspective of human emancipation and its historical, philosophical and sociological interfaces in formal and non-formal educational social practices.
Moacir Fernando Viegas
mviegas@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Democracy and Public Policies Study Group - GEDEPP The Democracy and Public Policies Study Group - GEDEPP has as objective to promote greater integration among researchers of the Graduate Program in Regional Development/Unisc (professors and students) who have been researching on the themes of democracy and of public policies and their territorial implications.
Cláudia Tirelli
ctirelli@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7368
Curriculum, memories and narratives in education The research group aims at investigating, in an interdisciplinary perspective, phenomena and themes with an emphasis on the experiences and narratives of training, on individual, collective, and institutional trajectories of formal and non-formal education, and on qualitative methodologies.
Éder da Silva Silveira
eders@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Public policies, social inclusion and formation of subjects The research group is linked to the Graduate Program in Education - UNISC and has as objective to investigate, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the ways of formation of subjects, through the articulation between public policies and what has been called the contemporary imperative of inclusion.
Betina Hillesheim
betinah@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7488
Popular education, participatory methodologies and decolonial studies Popular Education, Participatory Methodologies and Decolonial Studies Research Group aims at understanding, through the plurality of subjects and their experiences, the construction of educational, epistemological and methodological alternatives based on the popular.
Cheron Zanini Moretti
cheron@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7543
Social and Applied Sciences
Contemporary Constitutionalism This broad line of research focuses on the concern with themes that are linked to the specificity of the Constitution and its difficul ties and virtues in the regulation of the real factors of power and in the daily action of operators, including issues related to the State, to the theory of the Constitution, the effectiveness of constitutional rules, the integration of infraconstitutional rules into the constitutional system, the new means of managing of public interest, the fundamental rights, as well as the full range of new rights.
Jorge Renato dos Reis
jreis@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7370
Regional Development The Research Group on Regional Development aims at deepening the theoretical reflection on the concepts regional development and territorial planning and management, focused on themes related to Family Agriculture, Peasantry, Rural Tourism, New Technologies - TICS, Regional Productive Arrangements, Agribusiness, Sustainability, Environment, Social Movements, Diversification of ways of life, among others.
Virginia Elisabeta Etges
etges@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7392
Regional Development and Socio-cultural Processes The research group aims at understanding the relationships between global and regional culture in the context of regional development. It also seeks to study the transformations of cultural identity, especially the regional, and the relationship with the territory, as well as the processes of construction of regional identity related to development projects.
Ângela Cristina Trevisan Felippi
angelafe@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7392
Urban and Regional Research and Study Group- GEPEUR The main objective of the group is to understand the processes and policies of territorial organization and uses of urban and regional space and urban and regional planning, the dynamics of migration and commuting, urbanization of medium-sized cities and the development of urban networks in their relation with regional development.
Rogério Leandro Lima da Silveira
rlls@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7392
Environmental Economic Management The research group aims at proposing public policies in the environmental area, as well as the presentation of methodological subsidies for the elaboration of sustainable environmental development projects.
Silvio Cezar Arend
silvio@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7366
Strategic Marketing Management It intends to train students able to reflect on the marketing process in the organizational spaces in which they operate. Thus, it is expected to bring cutting-edge management technology to organizations in the State and the country, enabling them to face the competitive process and making them able to face the free globalization of markets.
Flávio Régio Brambilla
flaviobr@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7687
Business Management Study Group The group develops studies related to the structure, the organizational dynamics and the internal and external elements of the organizations, related to their objectives, goals and evaluation indicators.
Carlos Alberto Mello Moyano
carlos@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7687
Cross-Organizational Relations and Operation Management Center- NORI The Operations area is characterized by a wide scope of activities within organizations, covering topics such as strategic management, operations management, logistics and supply chain, technological strategies, innovation management and productive agglomerations combined with the issue of sustainability.
Heron Sergio Moreira Begnis
heron@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7362
Social Inclusion Policies The Public Policies for Social Inclusion Research Group focuses its concern on the discussion of fundamental issues for the Law, for the State and for the society, namely: (a) the perspectives and challenges of social demands, which are increasingly complex and intentional, and present in the daily life; (b) public policies for social inclusion and the management of social interests.
Marli Marlene Moraes da Costa
marlim@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7370
Conflict Management Policies The group aims at discussing the performance of the State's jurisdictional function, identifying public policies to access the justice that enable the consensual and democratic treatment/resolution of c onflicts.
Fabiana Marion Spengler
fabiana@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7370
State, Public Administration and Society The present research group meets the Lines of Research adopted by the Graduate Program in Law - Master's Degree and the Department of Law of UNISC, in charge of further implementing the activities with the professors and students of the Institution. The group has been researching themes that involve Public Administration, the State and Society.
Rogério Gesta Leal
gestaleal@unisc.br
(+55 51) 3717-7394