Short CV

Moisés Luzia Pinto obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry) in 2005 from the ULisboa, developed Post-doctoral research at the Center of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Faculty of Sciences, ULisboa and at the Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials (CICECO), University of Aveiro. After obtaining the PhD, he worked for the chemical industry as an external consultant and as manager of R&D laboratories (General Manager of R&D) and was a co-founder of the start-up company Adsorfoam (Chairman of the Board (2007 to 2010) and Chairman of the General Assembly (2010 to 2014)). From 2013 to 2014, he was a Research Assistant at CICECO. He joined the Chemical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico - ULisboa, as an Assistant Professor (2014) and has been Full Professor since 2025. He was a member of the executive committee of the chemical engineering department of IST (2017-2018), a member of the executive committee of pedagogical council of IST (2020-2021), President of the CERENA research center at IST (2021-2023) and is vice-president of the Chemical Engineering Department (2025-). From 2016 to 2023 was Assistant Secretary General of the Portuguese Chemical Society and is a member of the executive board of the Adsorption Experts Group of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society since 2022. MLP has been researching adsorbent materials and related applications for the past 20 years, with several types of materials. More recently, he has been focusing on materials application for gas separation/purification, gas storage, and therapeutic gas delivery. He successfully developed and studied hybrid materials and associated processes for challenging separations such as ethylene purification from ethane/ethylene mixtures and bio/natural gas upgrading. He has been tuning the material's properties for storage and therapeutic delivery of nitric oxide. He has been strongly engaged in the development of very selective hybrid materials for acetic acid capture that can be applied in cultural heritage preservation.

MLP's leadership skills and collaborative spirit have been instrumental in fostering scientific collaborations and promoting knowledge exchange. He was/is scientific director of 6 research projects and participated in other 10. To support his work, MLP has raised significant funding as principal investigator (> 5.6M€) from successful applications to competitive calls by national and international agencies. This allowed him to improve and develop the research laboratory facilities at CERENA dedicated to the study adsorbent materials and develop adsorption technologies, and support research contracts of PhD students, Post-Docs and junior researchers.

MLP contribution to the scientific community spans several essential activities to ensure the quality of current scientific systems. MLP expertise is widely recognized in the field, having been consistently invited by international funding agencies to join evaluation panels for fellowships grants calls, research project calls, and research infrastructure calls. His strong contribution to the peer-reviewing (> 100) confirms the engagement of MLP with the quality of scientific publications. He has been involved in the organization of 5 international scientific meetings, as Member of the Organizing Committees and Scientific Committees. As member of the executive board of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) (2013-2023), MLP was responsible for coordinating the organization of the society's scientific meetings (around 10/year), and for SPQ´s support to other meetings (around 5/ year).

MLP enjoys music and plays tuba at SMO since very young. For spending the free time, mountain biking and traveling are the favorite hobbies.

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