Research group
Bio(chemical) Process Engineering
Position
Academic Staff
João Paulo Prates Ramalho obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Lisbon University in 1995, with a thesis entitled "Feynman path integrals in Statistical Mechanics – Numerical methods and applications". Associate Professor in Evora University since 2005, he has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschungd (Stuttgart), Institut de Quimica Teorica i Computacional (University of Barcelona), Department of Chemical Engineering (University of Edinburgh), and Department of Biomolecular Physics (University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania). His scientific activity has been focused on different fields of theoretical/computational chemistry and authored more than 100 publications (Web of Science).
Representative Publications
Accounting for van der Waals interactions between adsorbates and surfaces in density functional theory based calculations: Selected examples
10.1039/c3ra40713f
First-principles determination of the dispersion interaction between fullerenes and their intermolecular potential
10.1103/physrevlett.79.3873
