Dean of Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biologica (ITQB) – UNL, 2011 – 2013 Director and Coordinator of the Laboratorio Associado ITQB Oeiras – the largest and the most prominent Scientific Technological-Entrepreneurship Portuguese Consortium (ITQB - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência - IBET – Centro de Doenças Crónicas - UNL), combining top private and public institutions, with a PhD holders research/education/entrepreneurship pool of circa 900 people, 2011 – 2013. Executive Director of Instituto de Biologia Experimetal e Tecnológica (IBET), 2006 – 2007 Director and founder member of GenIBET-Biopharmaceuticals, 2006 – 2007 Member of the Board of Directors of IBET, 2004 – 2006 Full Professor of Structural Chemistry, ITQB – UNL, 2009 – 2016 (April) Full Professor of Structural Chemistry, FCT – UNL, 2016 (April) - p Member of the NOVA-Rectory Teaching Quality Council (UNL), 2010 – 2011 Member of the Evaluation Panel for Chemistry of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2008 – 2011 Chair of the first PhD Program in Chemical and Biological Sciences of ITQB – UNL, 2003 – 2006 Research Associate at Princeton University, 1997 Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1996 Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, 1985 Board of Directors of the Portuguese Chemical Society, 1987 – 1989 Member of the IUPAC’s Task Group for the Standardization of Ionic Liquids, 2003 – 2005 Member of the Council of Chairs and International Advisory Board of the Congresses on Ionic Liquids (COIL), 2007 - p Main Financial-Management Achievements: (i) As Dean, has provided a Public Educational-Research Institution, ITQB NOVA, with an unique balanced private and/or competitive (80%) versus State (20%) budget; (ii) As Researcher, has competitively earned and attracted more than 6.7 M€ in financed, competitive national and international projects/grants (some European). Main Technological Transfer-Private Attractive Entrepreneurship: As researcher ¿ four published patents (one European). Main Educational-Pedagogical Achievements: Has taught in six distinct institutions: Instituto Superior Técnico ¿ U.T.L., Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ¿ U.N.L., The University of Tennessee ¿ USA, Princeton University ¿ USA, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde, and Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica ¿U.N.L. Main research interests: Molecular Thermodynamics and Engineering Processes of Liquids and Liquid Solutions (theory and experiments), in particular, Ionic Liquids, Isotope Effects, Metastable Liquids, and Polymer Solutions. Scholarship/Scientific Research Statistics: h-index = 67 (=74, Google Scholar); Citations > 16 000 (> 20 000 Google Scholar); Articles > 250; Abstracts to Conferences > 350; Plenary Lectures to Conferences = 14; Books as author: 1 (> 19 000 downloads); Book Chapters > 20; Financed Scientific Projects ˜ 6.7 M€; Patents = 4; More than 40 papers with more than 100 citations. Highly Cited Papers = 14; Hot Papers = 2; Listed in the top 1,000 most World Highly Cited Scientists in Chemistry (ESISM); I.F.2014 of the best published top-5 Journals between 45.6 – 11.4; PhD Students supervised = 16; Post-docs supervised > 30 Note: The most relevant scientific paper Martyn J. Earle, José M.S.S. Esperança, Manuela A. Gilea, José N. Canongia Lopes, Luís P.N. Rebelo*, Joseph W. Magee, Kenneth R. Seddon, Jason A. Widegren, “The distillation and volatility of Ionic Liquids”, Nature 2006, 439, 831-834; cited over 2000 times (WoS and Scopus), “Rank #1 as Most Cited Article” worldwide in Chemistry in June/July 2007 by Science Watch – WoK. Noted as Highly Cited Paper* by ESI-WoS. Spotted by ESI-WoS as a Hot Paper** in 2007.