Career

• Since 2012: Auxiliary Professor of the Chemical and Biological Department of IPB, Bragança, Portugal
• Since 2011: Integrated Member of the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Processes (LSRE)
• 1997 - 2011: Adjunct professor at the School of Technology and Management (ESTiG) of Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB), Bragança, Portugal

Roles

• Since 2011: Director of the CTeSP AQB at ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Qualifications

• 2011 - Ph.D. in the area of Influence of the Solvent Composition on the Performance of Simulated Moving Bed Chiral Separations, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
• 2001 - M.Sc. in the area of Priority Organic Pollutants in Landfill Leachates, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
• 1995 - First degree in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal

Interests

• Modeling, design and optimization of Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) processes
• Development and Optimization of SMB related techniques
• Design of continuous separation techniques for multicomponent separations
• Separation/Extraction of pharmaceutical and natural high added value products