(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Hendrikus (Henri) Nouws has a PhD in Chemistry (2007) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (Portugal). He is an auxiliary professor of the Chemical Engineering department of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Polytechnic University of Porto (Portugal) where he teaches several courses of the Bachelor and Master degrees in Chemical Engineering and of the Bachelor degree in Bioresources. Since 2018 he is the vice-director of the Master degree in Chemical Engineering and since 2022 he is a member of the scientific council of ISEP. He develops his research activities in the “Grupo de Reação e Análises Químicas” (GRAQ, www.graq.isep.ipp.pt), a sub-group of the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE) located on the campus of ISEP. His research mainly focuses on the development of sensors and biosensors for pharmaceutical, clinical, and food analysis, environmental sciences, pollutant monitoring, disease diagnosis, food safety, nanotechnology, consumer protection, and green technologies. He was the principal investigator of 2 national R&D projects and participated/participates as a researcher in 3 international and 11 national R&D projects, all funded through competitive calls. He also participated in 2 R&TD projects in collaboration with the Portuguese industry (funded through competitive calls). He is/was the (co)supervisor of 5 PhD (3 concluded and 2 ongoing) and 21 MSc thesis. His publication record contains 60 articles & reviews published in Web of Science-indexed journals, 5 book chapters, and 12 proceedings papers. He also coauthored 1 book and coedited another and was the (co)author of around 100 communications that were presented in international conferences and 33 communications that were presented in national conferences.