Rui Galhano dos Santos
CERENA, PORTUGAL
Biography
R. Galhano dos Santos has graduated in Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the Classical University of Lisbon in 2006, where he obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry in the following years. During his PhD studies he has integrated the Group of Raw Materials of CERENA, where, simultaneously, with his PhD studies developed and deepened his knowledge and scientific activity in the area of polymers and in the up-cycling of wastes/residues to access value-added products. This work allowed him to develop and gain the awareness for the necessity of the development of tools to improve the health and wellbeing of all living beings as well the environment of the entire globe. Within this context his current work has been focused in the use of direct liquefaction of biomass for the production of bio-oil to access to chemical platforms in alternatives to those overcoming from fossil sources. Such studies have resulted in the publication of several papers and patents over the last years