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Taicia Fill is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry (IQ) of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and coordinates the Laboratory of Microbial Chemical Biology. She holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry (2006), as well as an M.Sc. (2009) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Organic Chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), including a sandwich period at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Peter Leadlay. In 2020, she was a visiting professor at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, where she also carried out her
postdoctoral research between 2016 and 2017 with Prof. Christian Hertweck. In 2019, she was the winner in the Chemical Sciences category of the For Women in Science Award granted by L’Oréal–UNESCO–ABC. In 2022, she was elected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2022–2025), and in 2025 she received the Otto Gottlieb Award 2025 in the Young Researcher category. She served as elected treasurer of the Campinas regional section of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ) (2019–2021) and as secretary of the SBQ Campinas regional section (2022–2023). She was also secretary of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Brazilian Chapter (2019–2021). She is currently the coordinator of the Women’s Committee from the Brazilian Society of Chemistry (2024–2026), a member of the Women’s Committee of the Chemistry Institute of UNICAMP. She currently serves as vice head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at UNICAMP. Her research expertise lies in Natural Products Chemistry, with a focus on chemical ecology, pathogen–host interactions, discovery of antimicrobial compounds, and the biosynthesis of fungal secondary metabolites.