People EgiChem Team

Carlos Manuel Silva

Carlos Manuel Silva is currently Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and is member of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials. CMS has published over 190 peer reviewed journal articles, 14 book chapters and 2 patents.

CMS research areas cover supercritical fluids, transport properties (mainly diffusivities), separation processes (supercritical fluid extraction, membranes, adsorption, simulated moving bed chromatography, and ion exchange), synthesis and characterization of zeotype materials, and modeling (phenomenological, machine learning based, and molecular dynamics).

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Aveiro (UA).
Member of the General Council of the University of Aveiro (2017-2021).
Deputy Director of the Department of Chemistry for the research area.
Elected member of the Council of the Department of Chemistry.
Member of the Administration Board of CTCOR - Centro Tecnológico da Cortiça in representation of UA.
Member of the Fiscal Council of the CoLAB ForestWISE in representation of UA.
UA Representative at APQuímica and AIPQR.
Director of Doctoral Program in Chemical Engineering and Doctoral Program in Refining, Petrochemical and Chemistry at UA.
Vice-Director of the Master in Chemical Engineering of UA.
Erasmus coordinator of the Chemical Engineering area.
Member of the Editorial Board of: Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry, International Journal of Green Technology, Materials.
Scientific Reviewer of international journals and of High School Manuals of Chemistry (10th, 11th and 12th grades) of Porto Editora – Portugal.
Integrated two national and international evaluation panels of scholarships and projects.

Inês Portugal

Inês Portugal is currently professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and is member of CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials. She has published ca. 40 peer reviewed journal articles and 4 book chapters, and she has supervised ca. 20 master degree graduates.

Her main research interests include chemical valorisation of renewable resources, chemical reaction engineering as a tool for sustainability, and Chemical Engineering Education.