Present Affiliations (selection): PI and Senior Researcher at CERENA-ISEL and CQE-IST (Portugal) and Director at the Academia for the Advancement of Physiochemical Sustainability (Germany). Research interests: Hydrogen, hydrogen storage, CCUS, C1 molecules, methanol, formaldehyde, carbon dioxide, GHG, green chemistry, sustainable chemistry, transfer hydrogenation, UNSDG policie.

Academic background (selection):
2021 - Portuguese Habilitation in Chemistry (Título de Agregado), Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - German Habilitation, Privatdozent with Venia Legendi (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) in Inorg. Chem., Univ. of Cologne, Germany
2007 - PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), RWTH Aachen and Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
2004 - Diploma degree in Chemistry (Dipl.-Chem.), Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany

Merits (selection):
2016 - FRSC, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), London, UK
2015 - Heisenberg Fellow, DFG, Bonn, Germany
2014 - Ernst-Haage-Prize for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max-Planck-Institute for  Chemical Energy Conversion, DE
2009 - NRW Returnee Award, MIWF NRW, Germany
2007 - Humdboldt Fellow, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, AvH, Germany