简介
Professor of Chemistry, University of Coimbra
Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal Tel: +351-239-854470
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and Chartered Chemist (CChem, FRSC).
Director of the Laboratory of Electroanalysis and Corrosion, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra, Portugal (www.ipn.pt).
Visiting Professor, "Iuliu Haţieganu" Univ. Medicine & Pharmacy, Cluj, Romania since 2017
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC):
President 2020-21. Vice President (President Elect) 2018-19
IUPAC Bureau elected member, 2012-19, member Executive Committee 2016-17. President of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division, 2006-7; Past President 2008-9, Vice-President, 2004-5, Titular Member, 2000-2003. Titular Member Interdivisional Committee Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2018-19. Associate Member of Green Chemistry Subcommittee 2002-17. Member of the Committee on Chemical Education 2002-5. Electrochemistry Commission: Chairman 2000-2001, Secretary 1998-9, Titular Member 1996-2001, Associate Member 1994-5.
International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE): President 2007-8 (Past President 2009-10, President-Elect 2005-6; Vice-President 2003-4). Chair ISE Publications Committee 2016-20.
Iberoamerican Society of Electrochemistry (SIBAE): Vice President (President Elect) 2018-20, to become President 2020-22.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (SPQ): President of the Analytical Division, 2018-20, 2003-5 and 1996-9.
Chair or member of organising committee or scientific committee of many international conferences.
Current research interests, in national and international projects, and in international collaborations in Europe and the rest of the world are on:
- Development and characterisation of new electrode materials and composite electrode materials, particularly based on carbon. Surface–modified electrodes, nanostructured materials with layer-by-layer and nanoparticle modification, and electroactive redox and conjugated conducting polymers. Exploitation of electrocatalytic effects.
- Electrochemistry in ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents – characterisation and application to sensor fabrication and characterisation.
- Development of electrochemical sensors and enzyme biosensors: new architectures using layer-by-layer structures and functionalised carbon nanotubes, enzyme immobilisation in sol-gel or chitosan hydrogel matrices, core shell structures, nanotechnological aspects. Application to foods and beverages for food safety and quality and environmental monitoring.
- Sensors for electroanalysis and speciation in waters and effluents, particularly of trace biotoxic chemically labile species, using flow and injection systems. Environmental toxicity sensors based on enzyme inhibition. Electroanalysis of pharmaceutical compounds.
- Corrosion and its inhibition: aluminium, steels, coated steels, copper and titanium alloys, dental amalgams in biological fluids. Protection of reinforced concrete structures. New adsorption inhibitors.
Additionally, currently a team member of three IUPAC projects.
Author or co-author of 2 books, 22 book chapters and 310 scientific articles (267 ISI).
Co-editor of special issues of Electrochimica Acta (1998, 2004, 2012, 2019) Analytica Chimica Acta (1999), Pure and Applied Chemistry (2001), Analytical Letters (2004, 2006) and Microchimica Acta (2008, 2010). Current or past member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the journals Electrochimica Acta, Talanta, Electroanalysis, Journal of Electrochemistry (China) and Analytical Letters.
