Carlos Pascoal Neto

Carlos de Pascoal Neto was born on March 17, 1965, at Ponte de Vagos, Vagos, Aveiro, married, two children. He has graduated in Chemistry by the University of Aveiro (UA), 1988; has got the "Diplôme d'Etudes Aproffondies" (DEA) in "Génie des Procédés Papetiers" by the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France (1989) and the degree of "Docteur" in "Génie des Procédés Papetiers" by the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France (1992) (considered as equivalent to the PhD degree in Chemical Technology by the UA in). Has got the “Agregação” degree in Chemistry by UA in 2003. Since September 2005 he is Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) at the Department of Chemistry of (DQ-UA); formely he was Associated Professor and Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) (starting in 1992) at DQ-UA. He is now Vice-Rector of the University of Aveiro for Cooperation with Society, Innovation and Technology Transfer. Formerly, he has been appointed as Director of DQ-UA (2007-2010) and has been participating in several university management activities including the coordination of Scientific Commission of DQ-UA and of the Socrates-Erasmus Programe. He has been involved in the starting-up and implementation of Chemical Engineering teaching and research at DQ-UA has well as on teaching and research activities on Forest Products Chemistry and Technology. He has been Director of the Master on Materials Derived from Renewable Resources. Carlos has been teaching essentially Introductory Chemical Engineering, at graduate level, and Forest Products Chemistry and Technology, at graduate and MSc level. He has created and established a research team on Macromolecular and Lignocellulosic Materials at DQ-UA. This team, with the highest scientific production in Portugal in its domain, is integrated in CICECO Associated Laboratory. He has coordinated and participated in several research projects with financial support from european and national programmes as well as from industry. He was co-founder and coordinator of the University-Industry Technology Platform “IDPOR – Research and Development on Polymers from Renewable Resources” Carlos Pascoal Neto has supervised / co-supervised 10 post-doctoral students, 14 doctoral students, 10 master students and many research fellows and treinees, in academic or industrial context. He his a member of CICECO Associated Laboratory since its foundation and has coordinated one of its former research lines : Biorefineries and biomaterials Carlos Pascoal Neto has participated in the organization of several international conferences; he is a permanent member of the International Organizing Committee of the European Workshop on Lignocellulosics and Pulps (EWLP) and has been participating in the Scientific Commission of the International Symposium on Wood, Fiber and Pulping Chemistry (ISWFPC). He participates regularly as referee in several international scientific journals and is the Editor for Europe and Middle East of “O Papel”, the journal of Brazilian Association of Pulp and Paper Technitians. He has received the first Merit Award of Tecnicela, the Portuguese Association of Pulp and Paper Technitians. Carlos is author/co-author of 7 book chapters, more than 180 papers in international peer reviewed journals (ISI, h-index 30), 5 patents and several hundreds of oral and poster communications in national and international conference proceedings.