João Filipe Pereira Fortunato (4216-1A4C-94B7)

Curriculum Vitae

João Filipe Pereira Fortunato

João Fortunato obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in November 2022. His master's dissertation focused on establishing a strategy for reducing fugitive emissions from diffuse sources, applied to a vegetable oil extraction industry. Since October 2023, he has been a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at IST and has joined the GrAPHy team, a project part of the M2N (Moving2Neutrality) agenda. The project aims to study the production of green ammonia, decarbonizing the current process and enabling its application as part of a sustainable energy transition. His current work focuses on the decarbonization of a conventional ammonia plant by modeling and optimizing the gradual incorporation of green hydrogen.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Filipe Pereira Fortunato

Citation names

Fortunato, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4216-1A4C-94B7
ORCID iD: 0009-0002-6251-6427

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo%C3%A3o-fortunato-23775173/ (Social media)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/10 - 2027/09 Ongoing	Chemical Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/05/19 - 2025/05/22 Ongoing	Process Analytics Course (Outros) Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2024/05/13 - 2024/05/24 Concluded	Conceptual Design, Optimization Modeling and Integrated Process Operations (Outros) Carnegie Mellon University, United States
2020/09 - 2022/11 Concluded	Chemical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Estratégia de Controlo de Emissões Fugitivas com Origem em Fontes Difusas - um caso de estudo na indústria de extração de óleos vegetais" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2022 Concluded	Financial Markets (via coursera.org) (Outros) Yale University, United States
2017/09 - 2020/06 Concluded	Engineering Sciences - Chemical Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/03 - 2025/01	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

2021/12 - 2022/01	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/03 - 2022/08	Master Thesis Intern	Iberol - Sociedade Ibérica de Biocombustíveis e Oleaginosas, S.A, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/10/01 - 2025/12/31	GrAPHy - Green Ammonia Production from Intermittent Sources of Hydrogen C644927397-00000038 1801P.01297 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal	European Union Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Fortunato, João; Castro, Pedro M.; Narciso, Diogo A.C.; Matos, Henrique A.. Corresponding author: Matos, Henrique A.. "Towards the Decarbonization of a Conventional Ammonia Plant by the Gradual Incorporation of Green Hydrogen". Paper presented in ESCAPE35 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Ghent, 2025. Accepted
Conference poster	Fortunato, João; Castro, Pedro M.; Narciso, Diogo A.C.; Matos, Henrique A.. Corresponding author: Matos, Henrique A.. "Towards the Decarbonization of a Conventional Ammonia Plant by the Gradual Incorporation of Green Hydrogen". Paper presented in ESCAPE35 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2025.
Journal article	Narciso, Diogo A.C.; Pires, José M.; Fortunato, João; Teixeira, Paula; Castro, Pedro M.; Pinheiro, Carla I.C.; Matos, Henrique A.. "Design and operation of Power-to-Ammonia systems: A review". Energy Conversion and Management 327 (2025): 119494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119494. Published • 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119494
Thesis / Dissertation	"Estratégia de Controlo de Emissões Fugitivas com Origem em Fontes Difusas. Caso de estudo da indústria de extração de óleos vegetais". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2022. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meq21/dissertacao/565303595502963.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09/08	Green Ammonia Production from Intermittent Sources of Energy	CAPE Computer Aided Process Engineering Forum 2023 Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, FEUP (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2025/06/30	Member of the Local Host Committee, 22nd International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (2025/06/23 - 2025/06/27) Conference (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/03 - 2021/05	General Coordinator, XXXIV Jornadas de Engenharia Química (2021/03/15 - 2021/03/19)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/07/06 - 2025/07/09	Participation and presentation of a poster entitled "Towards the Decarbonization of a Conventional Ammonia Plant by the Gradual Incorporation of Green Hydrogen" Symposium	ESCAPE35 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Industriële Ingenieurswetenschappen Technologiecampus Gent, Belgium
2024/06/06 - 2024/06/07	Attended presentations and engaged with key industrial stakeholders about the role of ammonia in Europe's energy transition. Conference	NH3 Event 24
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/08	Participation and oral presentation "Green Ammonia Production from Intermittent Sources of Energy" Conference	CAPE Computer Aided Process Engineering Forum 2023 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/11 - 2025/02	Transferência de Massa e Operações	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Química (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/02	Síntese e Integração de Processos	Engenharia Química (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06	Métodos Computacionais em Fenómenos de Transferência	Engenharia Química (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06	Projeto Integrador de 1º Ciclo em Engenharia Química	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Química (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/02	Química-Física	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Química (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2025/04/07 - 2025/04/11	Study of the operations of the units dedicated to hydrogen production, particularly the natural gas reforming section (SMR).	Galp Energia SGPS SA, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2021	Academic Merit Diploma 2020/21 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020	Academic Merit Diploma 2019/20 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019	Academic Merit Diploma 2018/19 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018	Academic Merit Diploma 2017/18 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal