Pedro is pursuing a PhD in Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Galp Energia, under a joint academia/industry protocol with Professor Henrique Matos (IST, University of Lisbon) supervision. He has a MSc in Chemical Engineering (at IST, 2013) with a thesis entitled "Process integration in a hazardous waste treatment, elimination and valorisation system". His research lies in the fields of process integration, specifically heat integration. The theme for his thesis is "Heat integration of processing units of Sines Refinery using Pinch Analysis".