PEDRO JORGE DOS SANTOS BRANCO CARIDADE (6812-66CA-8510)

Curriculum Vitae

PEDRO JORGE DOS SANTOS BRANCO CARIDADE

Pedro Jorge dos Santos Branco Caridade is a researcher with a comprehensive educational background in Chemistry from Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, including a PhD degree in Theoretical Chemistry, earned in 2004. With over two decades of academic and research experience, Pedro has made significant contributions to the field of Chemical Sciences, particularly in Physical Chemistry and Reaction Dynamics. His expertise spans a wide range of topics, including potential energy surfaces, ab initio calculations, reaction dynamics, and atmospheric modeling. Pedro has published extensively, over 50 articles in reputable journals and contributions to book sections. He has also organized four events, received five awards and honors, and actively participated as Principal Investigator or Researcher in numerous projects. In addition to his academic achievements, Pedro's expertise extends to practical applications such as air quality assessment, atmospheric pollutant modeling, and satellite imagery analysis. His research interests encompass the intersection of chemistry with environmental and health sciences, with a focus on innovative molecular-based approaches. Pedro's proficiency in machine learning, regression models, and artificial intelligence further enriches his contributions to multidisciplinary research endeavors. Through his diverse skill set and extensive research output, Pedro continues to advance knowledge in Chemical Sciences while addressing pressing challenges in energy, environment, and health from a molecular perspective. He actively participated in R&D technological transfer events, leveraging his expertise in Chemistry to bridge the gap between academic research and practical applications. His involvement in such events underscores his commitment to translating scientific innovations into real-world solutions. Additionally, Pedro has played a pivotal role in the creation of a startup, demonstrating his entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to fostering innovation beyond traditional academic boundaries. Through his leadership and expertise, Pedro has contributed to the successful establishment of ventures aimed at commercializing cutting-edge technologies developed through his research, further solidifying his impact on the intersection of academia and industry.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: PEDRO JORGE DOS SANTOS BRANCO CARIDADE

Citation names

CARIDADE, PEDRO
Caridade, P. J. S. B.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 6812-66CA-8510
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0947-5750

Email addresses

pedrojcaridade@uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Chemistry Centre, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, 3004-535, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Physical Chemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2004 Concluded	PhD in Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "A Reacção OH+O2 Como Fonte de Ozono na Atmosfera: Influência da Excitação Vibracional." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with “Suma Cum Laude”
2004 Concluded	Química (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Química Teórica Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "A Reacção Oh+o2 Como Fonte de Ozono na Atmosfera. Efeito da Excitação Vibracional" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003 Concluded	MSc in Chemistry, Physical Chemistry (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Estudos Teóricos no Sistema H2O(1A)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good
1996 Concluded	Chemistry (Scientific) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Estudos Sobre Superfícies de Energia Potencial" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

2007 - 2012	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/05/01 - Current	FCT PostDoc Researcher	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal

2018 - 2018	FCT Project PostDoc	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - 2017	VER	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

2007 - 2015	VER	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

2013/09/01 - 2014/04/30	PostDoc Project Researcher	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal

2013/05/01 - 2013/07/31	PostDoc Project Researcher	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2013 - 2013	VER	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

2007/11/01 - 2012/11/01	Assistant Reseracher	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal

2011 - 2011	VER	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

2004/08/01 - 2007/07/01	Postdoc researcher	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2006/06/01 - 2006/07/01	Invited researcher	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

2005/06/01 - 2005/07/01	Invited researcher	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

1999/10/01 - 2003/09/01	Trainee Assistant	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

1997/04/01 - 1999/07/01	Trainee Assistant	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2007/11 - 2012/11	Ciência 2017 Starting Grant NA Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/10/01 - Current	Co-creating resilient and sustainable food systems towards FOOD2030 CITIES2030 Researcher	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg
2007 - Current	Non-adiabatic interactions in molecular system GRICES/Índia-2007 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal
2004 - Current	Química-física não adiabática: Teoria e aplicações a sistemas simples e seus isotopomeros GRICES/CAPES-2004 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Instituto de Ciências Moleculares LA/P/0056/2020 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Química, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/01/02 - 2025/01/01	Not Available DL 57/2016/CP1370/CT0050 10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1370/CT0050 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro de Química - Coimbra UID/QUI/00313/2019 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018 - 2019	Sensor Observation of Urban Life: Pollution mitigation NA Principal investigator	European Institute of Innovation and Technology Concluded
2018 - 2018	Smart Air Quality Monitoring NA Principal investigator	Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro
2015 - 2018	Smart Atmospheric Alerts NA Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg Concluded
2015 - 2018	Sensor Observation of Urban Life \| Space NA Principal investigator	European Space Agency
2013/08/16 - 2015/10/31	Potenciais moleculares e dinâmica reaccional a partir de primeiros princípios PTDC/QEQ-COM/3249/2012 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2013/08/16 - 2015/09/30	Química Teórica e Computacional da Atmosfera: dos Processos Elementares a Cadeias Complexas de Reacção PTDC/AAG-MAA/4657/2012 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 313 - 2011-2012 PEst-C/QUI/UI0313/2011 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2010/05/01 - 2013/08/15	Estudos teóricos rigorosos em sistemas de complexidade crescente com relevância ambiental PTDC/AAC-AMB/099737/2008 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2010/03/17 - 2013/08/15	Potenciais moleculares e dinâmica reaccional: em busca de um tratamento rigoroso PTDC/QUI-QUI/099744/2008 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008 - 2010	Fundamental issues in the aerothermodynamics of planetary atmosphere re-entry AO/1-5593/08/NL/HE Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	European Space Agency
2005/11/01 - 2008/10/31	Química ambiental teórica POCI/AMB/60261/2004 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005/06/01 - 2006/12/31	Química quântica dentro, e para além, da aproximação de Born-Oppenheimer: dos primeiros princípios à capacidade predictiva POCI/QUI/60501/2004 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2003 - 2006	Predicting Catalysis: Understanding Ammonia Production from First Principles HPRN-CT-2002-00170 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal	European Commission

Other

	Designation	Funders
2015 - Current	Civil Protection and Environmental Warnings NA Principal investigator	Cancelled
2015 - 2015	MyDay: Health Daily Planner based on ESA Satellite Data and SAP NA Principal investigator	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	CARIDADE, PEDRO. "Copernicus Helping Civil Protection". In Copernicus4Regions, edited by European Commission; European Space Agency; Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies, 220. Brussels, Belgium, 2019. Published
Conference abstract	Amilcar Duque-Prata; Tiago B. Pinto; Serpa, Carlos; CARIDADE, PEDRO. Corresponding author: CARIDADE, PEDRO. "Using DFT to Design New Organic Electron Transfer Systems: Redox Potentials and Free Energy Calculations". Paper presented in 15º Encontro Nacional de Química Física, 2023. A. Duque-Prata; Serpa, Carlos; CARIDADE, PEDRO. "How the structure of intermediate species influences selectivity in the photoreaction of 1-allyl-4-aryltetrazolones in solution". Paper presented in 14º Encontro de Química Física, 2021. Published
Conference paper	CARIDADE, PEDRO. "Sensor Observation of Urban Life \| Quantificação de (bio)-aerossóis". Paper presented in 3 Fórum de Imunoalergologia do Centro, 2017. Published
Conference poster	A. Duque-Prata; Serpa, Carlos; CARIDADE, PEDRO. "Photochemistry of 1-phenyl-4-allyl-tetrazol-5-one: A theoretical study contribution towards mechanism elucidation". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting, 2021.
Edited book	CARIDADE, PEDRO. From Potentials to Dynamics: The Starting Journey. Portugal. 2015. Published • Editor
Journal article	Amílcar Duque-Prata; Carlos Serpa; Pedro J. S. B. Caridade. "Theoretical Evaluation of Fluorinated Resazurin Derivatives for In Vivo Applications". Molecules (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29071507. 10.3390/molecules29071507 B R L Galvão; P J S B Caridade; V C Mota; A J C Varandas. "SiS formation in the interstellar medium via SiH + S collisions". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023): https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2580. 10.1093/mnras/stad2580 Amílcar Duque-Prata; Tiago B. Pinto; Carlos Serpa; Pedro J. S. B. Caridade. "Performance of Functionals and Basis Sets in Calculating Redox Potentials of Nitrile Alkenes and Aromatic Molecules using Density Functional Theory". ChemistrySelect (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202300205. 10.1002/slct.202300205 Amílcar Duque-Prata; Carlos Serpa; Pedro J. S. B. Caridade. "Full theoretical protocol for the design of metal-free organic electron donor–spacer–acceptor systems". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP03323F. 10.1039/D3CP03323F Rodrigues, Sérgio Paulo Jorge; Caridade, P. J. S. B.. "História da química computacional e do uso dos computadores em química". História da Ciência e Ensino: construindo interfaces 25 (2022): 140-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/2178-2911.2022v25espp140-153. 10.23925/2178-2911.2022v25espp140-153 João Gregório; Carla Gouveia-Caridade; Pedro J. S. B. Caridade. "Modeling PM2.5 and PM10 Using a Robust Simplified Linear Regression Machine Learning Algorithm". Atmosphere (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13081334. 10.3390/atmos13081334 V. C. Mota; P. J. S. B. Caridade; A. J. C. Varandas; B. R. L. Galvão. "Quasiclassical Trajectory Study of the Si + SH Reaction on an Accurate Double Many-Body Expansion Potential Energy Surface". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01633. 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01633 Bernardo A. Nogueira; Alexandre D. Silva; Maria Inês P. Mendes; Ana Dora R. Pontinha; Carlos Serpa; Mário J. F. Calvete; Alexandra Rocha-Gonçalves; Pedro J. B. S. Caridade; Sérgio P. J. Rodrigues. "Molecular School – a pre-university chemistry school". Chemistry Teacher International 0 0 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2020-0013. 10.1515/cti-2020-0013 Amilcar Duque-Prata; Carlos Serpa; Pedro J. S. B. Caridade. "Photochemistry of 1-Phenyl-4-Allyl-Tetrazol-5-One: A Theoretical Study Contribution towards Mechanism Elucidation". Applied Sciences 11 9 (2021): 4045-4045. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094045. 10.3390/app11094045 P. J. S. B. Caridade; Jing Li; V. C. Mota; A. J. C. Varandas. "The O + NO(v) Vibrational Relaxation Processes Revisited". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2018): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03431. 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03431 Zhang, Lei; Luo, Pingya; Guo, Ke; Zeng, Rong; Caridade, Pedro J. S. B.; Varandas, Antonio J. C.. "Theoretical investigation of vibrational relaxation of highly excited O-3 in collisions with HO2". Rsc Advances 4 19 (2014): 9866-9874. 10.1039/c3ra45634j Li, Jing; Caridade, Pedro J. S. B.; Varandas, Antonio J. C.. "Quasiclassical Trajectory Study of the Atmospheric Reaction N(D-2) plus NO(X (2)Pi) -> O(D-1) + N-2(X (1)Sigma(+)(g))". Journal of Physical Chemistry a 118 8 (2014): 1277-1286. 10.1021/jp408487y Teixeira, O. B. M.; Caridade, P. J. S. B.; Mota, V. C.; Garcia de la Vega, J. M.; Varandas, A. J. C.. "Dynamics of the O plus CIO Reaction: Reactive and Vibrational Relaxation Processes". Journal of Physical Chemistry a 118 51 (2014): 12120-12129. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000347360000028&KeyUID=WOS:000347360000028. 10.1021/jp511498r Mota, V.C.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Ab initio-based global double many-body expansion potential energy surface for the first 2A¿ electronic state of NO 2". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116 11 (2012): 3023-3034. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84858763040&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp300031q Galvão, B.R.L.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "N(4S/2D)+N2: Accurate ab initio-based DMBE potential energy surfaces and surface-hopping dynamics". Journal of Chemical Physics 137 22 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871219287&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1063/1.4737858 Galvão, B.R.L.; Corzo-Espinoza, J.A.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Quasiclassical trajectory study of the rotational distribution for the O+NO(v = 0) fundamental vibrational excitation". International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 43 7 (2011): 345-352. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955575452&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/kin.20560 Joseph, S.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Quasiclassical trajectory study of the c( 1 d) + h 2 reaction and isotopomeric variants: Kinetic isotope effect and cd/ch branching ratio". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115 27 (2011): 7882-7890. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960139473&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp2032912 Mota, V.C.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Toward the modeling of the NO2(2A¿) manifold". International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 111 14 (2011): 3776-3785. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052080207&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/qua.22907 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Galvão, B.R.L.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Quasiclassical trajectory study of atom-exchange and vibrational relaxation processes in collisions of atomic and molecular nitrogen". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 114 19 (2010): 6063-6070. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952340970&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp101681m Zhang, L.; Luo, P.; Zeng, R.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics study of the atmospheric reaction involving vibrationally excited O3 with OH". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 37 (2010): 11362-11370. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77956545089&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1039/b927542h Song, Y.Z.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Potential energy surface for ground-state H2S via scaling of the external correlation, comparison with extrapolation to complete basis set limit, and use in reaction dynamics". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113 32 (2009): 9213-9219. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68549123398&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp903790h Mota, V.C.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Diabatic electronic manifold of hn2(2a') and n + nh reaction dynamics on its lowest adiabat". Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 8 5 (2009): 849-859. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449568485&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1142/S0219633609005076 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Mota, V.C.; Mohallem, J.R.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "A theoretical study of rate coefficients for the O + NO vibrational relaxation". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 112 5 (2008): 960-965. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39649119312&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp075419r Song, Y.Z.; Kinal, A.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.; Piecuch, P.. "A comparison of single-reference coupled-cluster and multi-reference configuration interaction methods for representative cuts of the H2 S (1 A') potential energy surface". Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM 859 1-3 (2008): 22-29. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-43949141732&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.theochem.2008.02.028 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Poveda, L.A.; Rodrigues, S.P.J.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Recalibrated double many-body expansion potential energy surface and dynamics calculations for HN2". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 111 7 (2007): 1172-1178. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33847763247&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp066898h Ballester, M.Y.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics and kinetics of the H + SO2 reaction: A theoretical study". Chemical Physics Letters 439 4-6 (2007): 301-307. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34247323881&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.cplett.2007.03.112 Varandas, A.J.C.; Chu, T.-S.; Han, K.-L.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.. "Accurate rate constant and quantum effects for N(2D) + H2 reaction". Chemical Physics Letters 421 4-6 (2006): 415-420. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33645842490&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.01.073 Varandas, A.J.C.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Zhang, J.Z.H.; Cui, Q.; Han, K.L.. "Dynamics of X+CH 4 (X=H, O, Cl) reactions: How reliable is transition state theory for fine-tuning potential energy surfaces?". Journal of Chemical Physics 125 6 (2006): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33747241977&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1063/1.2217953 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Rodrigues, S.P.J.; Sousa, F.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Unimolecular and bimolecular calculations for HN2". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109 10 (2005): 2356-2363. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-15944364111&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp045102g Caridade, P.J.B.S.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics Study of the N(4S) + O2 Reaction and Its Reverse". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 108 16 (2004): 3556-3564. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2342582123&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp037040k Teitelbaum, H.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Calculation of the rate constant for state-selected recombination of H+O2(v) as a function of temperature and pressure". Journal of Chemical Physics 120 22 (2004): 10483-10500. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2942694314&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1063/1.1712765 Silveira, D.M.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.; Silveira, Dora M.; Caridade, Pedro J. S. B.; Varandas, António J. C.. "Dynamics study of the O + HO2 reaction using two DMBE potential energy surfaces: The role of vibrational excitation". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 108 41 (2004): 8721-8730. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-7044274614&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp049575z Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Llanio-Trujillo, J.L.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Nascent versus "steady-State" Rovibrational Distributions in the Products of the O(3P) + O3(X~1A) Reaction". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 107 50 (2003): 10926-10932. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0347568374&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp030756v Garrido, J.D.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics study of the OH + O2 branching atmospheric reaction. 4. Influence of vibrational relaxation in collisions involving highly excited species". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 106 21 (2002): 5314-5322. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037198790&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1021/jp0203245 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Sabin, J.; Garrido, J.D.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics of OH + O2 vibrational relaxation processes". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 4 20 (2002): 4959-4969. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036401586&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1039/b203101a Varandas, A.J.C.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.. "The OH(v')+O2(v¿) reaction: A new source of stratospheric ozone?". Chemical Physics Letters 339 1-2 (2001): 1-8. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035805465&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/S0009-2614(01)00314-1 Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Zhang, L.; Garrido, J.D.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics study of the OH + O2 branching atmospheric reaction. 2. Influence of reactants internal energy in HO2 and O3 formation". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 105 18 (2001): 4395-4402. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035837967&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Betancourt, M.; Garrido, J.D.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Dynamics study of the OH + O2 branching atmospheric reaction. 3. Dissociation in collisions of vibrationally excited reactants". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 105 31 (2001): 7435-7440. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035833817&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Borges Jr., I.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Varandas, A.J.C.. "Potential energy curves for X1S+ and A1¿ states of CO: The A1¿ (v' = 1-23) ¿ X1S+ (v¿ = 0, 1) transitions". Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 209 1 (2001): 24-29. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035439660&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1006/jmsp.2001.8402 Varandas, A.J.C.; Voronin, A.I.; Caridade, P.J.S.B.; Riganelli, A.. 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"Cross sections and rate constants for the O(+D) + H2 reaction using a single-valued energy-switching potential energy surface". Chemical Physics Letters 278 4-6 (1997): 325-332. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0031592903&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Report	CARIDADE, PEDRO. 2018. GOSAFE \| Outdoor Experience. CARIDADE, PEDRO. 2017. Sensor Observation of Urban Life \| Space. B.L.R. Galvão; V.C. Mota; CARIDADE, PEDRO; A.J.C. Varandas. 2011. Fundamental Issues in the Aerothermodynamics of Planetary Atmosphere Re-Entry.
Thesis / Dissertation	Gregório, João Alberto Madeira. "Forecasting airborne pollutants via time-series models". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/83178. Alves, Styve da Conceicao. "Estimativa e diagnóstico da qualidade do ar obtida por dados de observação da Terra". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/82952. Caridade, Pedro Jorge dos Santos Branco. "A reacção OH+O2 como fonte de ozono na atmosfera : efeito de excitação vibracional". PhD, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/2053.
Translation	CARIDADE, PEDRO. IUPAC Green Book” section translation to Portuguese (PT-PT & PT-BR) and Technical Edition. 2019.

Other

Other output

Dynamics with CBS: Coupling electronic structure dynamics (2018–, GPL license). 2018. CARIDADE, PEDRO.
CHIPR PES: Toolbox for fitting potential energy surface (2018–, GPL license). 2018. CARIDADE, PEDRO.
VENUS96-Coimbra: A quasi-classical package for dynamics (2016–, shareware license). 2016. CARIDADE, PEDRO.
¿buntu: Quantum Chemistry Tailored Linux OS for Computational Chemistry. 2015. CARIDADE, PEDRO.
RATES: a chemical reaction database (2013–, LPPL license). 2013. CARIDADE, PEDRO.

Spin-off company

2015. SpaceLayer Technologies. Air pollution.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/10/20	Earth Observation: Downstream Applications	Aeronautics, Space & Defense Cluster Days ADEI (Oeiras, Portugal)
2019/03/07	Forecasting Air Pollution	GBI Bridge Event GBI (Bangalore, India)
2019/03/02	Entrepreneurship: Space, Maths and Chemistry	ERAMUS+ BEST (Coimbra)
2018/10/22	Entrepreneurial Stories from Copernicus Accelerator Alumni	Copernicus Accelerator Webinars Copernicus Support Office (Brussels, Belgium)
2018/10/17	Remote Sensing: Data Aggregation, Platform & Algorithms	Risk AquaSoil University of Coimbra (Pedrogão Pequeno, Portugal)
2018/10/09	Copernicus Services for Remote Sensing	Copernicus Ecosystem Workshop Copernicus Support Office (Brussels, Belgium)
2018/09/26	Earth Observation and Civil Protection	Copernicus4Regions European Commission, European Space Agency and Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies (Brussels, Belgium)
2018/07/05	Copernicus e a Observação da Terra: Satélites e a Química Ambiental	Summer School University of Coimbra University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/05/30	The Need of Air Quality Forecast	India Clean Air Initiative Get in the Ring (Cascais, Portugal)
2018/05/28	Sensor Observation of Urban Life	NewSpace Atlantic Summit 2018 FCT (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/02	Earth Observation and air quality monitoring using Copernicus	INEOStart2018 Instituto Pedro Nunes (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/04/15	Earth Observation: From Data to Applications	Climate KIC @ University of Porto Climate KIC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/03/17	Machine Learning in (Bio)-Aerosols Quantification	MedSummit2018 University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/11/29	Machine Learning in Air Quality monitoring	93rd Tech Day@Altice Labs: Artificial Intelligence Altice Labs (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/11/17	SOUL: Air Pollution Monitoring and Applications	European Institute of Technology: Climate KIC Climate KIC (Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal)
2017/11/07	Sensor Observation of Urban Life: European Commission Government Challenge	Satellite Masters Conference European Commission (Tallin, Estonia)
2017/11/07	Sensor Observation of Urban Life: Lessons Learned	Satellite Masters Conference European Commission (Tallin)
2017/10/25	Air Pollution Modeling and Forecast for Climate Threats	ClimateKIC@University of Coimbra ClimateKIC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/10/02	Machine Learning and Technological Transfer	CABRIOLET - University of Coimbra University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/07/21	Air pollution Monitoring and Applications	European Institute of Technology: Climate KIC, Climate KIC (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/07/13	Earth Observation: From Collecting Data to Daily Use Applications	Coimbra Space Summer School, Lecture ESA BIC Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/06/09	Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service: Data and Applications	Copernicus InfoSession Portugal European Commission (Açores, Portugal)
2017/06/06	Machine Learning in Pollution Forecast: From Data to Applications	EIT Digital Summer School EIT Digital (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06/01	Machine Learning Applied to Pollution: From Data Acquisition to Forecast	IOT Summit Microsoft Microsoft (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/05/07	Ser Empreendedor	Escola Superior Tecnologias do Mar, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Peniche, Portugal)
2017/03/17	Air Quality Monitoring and Forecast	CIMQ’17(Congreso Internacional Médico Quirúrgico) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2017/03/14	Air Quality Modelling and Implication on Health: SOUL	Global Event for Digital Business European Commission (Hannover, Germany)
2016/11/17	Research, Innovation and Knowledge	II Encontro Científico do NEQ/AAC NEQ/AAC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/02/03	Sensor Observation of Urban Life and Health-IT	Caixa Empreender MIT Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2016/06/23 - Current	Workshop on OpenFoam CFD Toolbox (2016/06/23) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	SpaceLayer Technologies, Portugal
1997/03/21 - Current	Coimbra HCM Meeting on Multichannel Reactions and Kinetic Modeling of Combustion Processes (Coimbra, Portugal, March 21-22, 1997). (1997/03/21) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/03/05 - 2018/03/09	Startup Europe Week, promoted by European Commission (2018/03/05 - 2018/03/09) Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal SpaceLayer Technologies, Portugal
2016/03/30 - 2016/04/03	MOLIM2016: From Potentials to Dynamics: The Starting Journey (2016/03/30) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Química de Coimbra, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020 - Current	Comissão de Avaliação Maiores-23 Member	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - Current	Editoral board: Medicinal Open Source Journal. Other
2015 - Current	Editorial Board: Young Chemistry (Sociedade Portuguesa de Química) Other	Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	CORDINET Evaluator	Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies, Belgium
2019 - Current	Evaluator for Horizon2020 (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks). Evaluator	European Commission, Belgium
2017 - Current	Evaluator for Horizon Price of European Commission Evaluator	European Commission, Belgium
2009 - Current	Project evaluator of Argentina Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Argentina, for Theoretical Chemical-Physics. Evaluator	Agencia Nacional De Promoción Científica Y Tecnológica, Argentina

Distinctions

Award

2017	Copernicus Masters European Commission, Belgium Copernicus Masters, Belgium
2016	2016 EIT Health Innostars Award
2016	Lisbon Summer School EIT Digital

Other distinction

2015	Building Global innovator, 6th Edition: Health It & Medical Devices
2014	Soul-Fi Accelerator Programme