(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Full professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro and Vice-rector for Research, Innovation and 3rd Cycle. Was President of the Portuguese Chemical Society for 7 years. Published more than 850 SCI papers (> 24200 citations, h 68), 2 e-book, 57 book chapters, 68 lectures. Supervised 42 PhD and 43 MSc students; participated in 36 financed Portuguese and European projects. Research interests: chemistry (synthesis and transformations) of polyphenolic and nitrogen heterocycles; isolation and structural characterization of natural products from terrestrial and marine sources; and synthesis and biological evaluation of biologically active oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds. Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Chemistry Europe.