Autor: Francisca e. Silva

João A. P. Coutinho is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is vice-director of CICECO, one of the leading European Laboratories in Materials Science. He leads a multidisciplinary research team that focuses on the development of green solvents and novel separation processes for biorefinery and circular economy. Currently he strives to apply biobased solvents, DES and ionic liquids to these processes and attempts to better understand their physical-chemical behavior. He supervised over 50 MSc, 30 Ph D thesis and 25 Post Doctoral Fellows, authored over 650-refereed papers (h-factor 80, > 27000 citations) and 15 patents.