About the author

I graduated in chemical engineering in 2002, four years later I defended my PhD in the same field. During my entire professional career I had always been attracted to the ‘energy discipline’ to which I had been devoted. My academic vocation has taken me to work (in chronological order) in United States (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Spain (University of the Basque Country and Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry), Canada (University of Western Ontario), the Netherlands (Delft University of Technology) and now in São Tomé.