Personal identification

Full name

RUI CARLOS BARATA FERREIRA

Citation names

• Ferreira, R. B.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

AA15-6590-4168

ORCID iD

0000-0003-2626-9043

Scopus Author Id

56459498000

Email addresses

• rferreira@fe.up.pt (Professional)
• rui.carlos.ferreira.27@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2013/04 - 2017/04 Concluded	Engenharia Química e Biológica (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Two-phase flow in PEM fuel cells: 1D + 3D model development and numerical simulations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved by Unanimity
2007/09 - 2012/09 Concluded	Engenharia do Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Delft University of Technology, Netherlands "Anaerobic digestion of sludge from marine aquaculture systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16 values (A on the ECTS Grading System)

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/08 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte, Portugal
2020/07 - 2025/08	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte, Portugal
2017/06 - 2020/06	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/10 - 2017/02	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/04 - 2017/03	Water management on proton exchange membrane fuel cells: innovative modeling and two-phase flow characterization SFRH/BD/89572/2012 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025/05 - Current	SMART&GREEN: Cidades com Impacto Neutro no Clima NORTE2030-FEDER-02696100 Researcher	Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte Ongoing
2025/05 - Current	ECO-MOBES - Mobilidade Inteligente & Tecnologias para a Eficiência de Recursos NORTE2030-FEDER-02699500 Researcher	Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte Ongoing
2025/05 - Current	WAVES - Água do Mar e Águas Residuais: Transformar Desafios em Recursos NORTE2030-FEDER-02716600 Researcher	Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte Ongoing
2025/05 - Current	AEMWEtoGreenH2 - Reshaping Green Hydrogen Production: Development of Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis COMPETE2030-FEDER-00778300 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2025/01 - Current	GreenShip_E - Electrification of Ships Using Green Fuels and Advanced Technologies GreenShip_E Researcher	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Ongoing
2023/07 - Current	AIHRE - Análisis e Impulso del H2 REnovable en la región POCTEP 0093_AIHRE_6_E Researcher	Interreg Europe Ongoing
2023/03 - Current	SuN2Fuel - Photo-assisted production of green ammonia-based fuels 2022.04682.PTDC Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/03 - Current	Service provision contract - Development of PEM electrolyzers for industrial applications V24901 Researcher	Ongoing
2021/10 - Current	Aero.Next Portugal PRR - C645727867-00000066 Researcher	Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP Ongoing
2021/03 - Current	BiCat4Energy - Carbon-based noble metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for renewable energy production: Improving the Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell PTDC/EQU-EQU/1707/2020 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2021/01 - Current	ALICE - Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering LA/P/0045/2020 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01 - Current	Transport Phenomena Research Center UIDB/00532/2020 UIDP/00532/2020 UID 00532 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01 - 2025/12	HI-MOV - Corredor Tecnológico Transfronterizo de Movilidad con Hidrógeno Renovable 0160_HI_MOV_1_E Researcher	Interreg Europe Concluded
2021/04 - 2023/06	HyGreen&LowEmissions - Tackling Climate Change Impacts: the role of Green Hydrogen production, storage and use, together with low emissions energy systems NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000077 Researcher	European Regional Development Fund Concluded
2019/08 - 2023/01	ACE - Airborne Clean Energy systems POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039863 Researcher	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2017/06 - 2021/06	UniRCell - Unitised regenerative fuel cell for efficient renewable energy supply: from materials to device SAICTPAC/0032/2015 Post-doc	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/07 - 2020/05	HYLANTIC - Atlantic Network for Renewable Generation and Supply of Hydrogen to promote High Energy Efficiency EAPA_204/2016 Post-doc Fellow	European Regional Development Fund Concluded
2017/06 - 2019/07	Energetic sustainability at the SUDOE region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network SOE1/P1/E0293 Post-doc Fellow	European Regional Development Fund Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Falcão, D.S.; Santos, D.F.M.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.; Ferreira, R.B.. "Electrolyzer – Alkaline Electrolyzer | Overview". In Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources, 15-32. Elsevier, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96022-9.00217-6 Pinto, A.M.F.R.; Falcão, D.S.; Ferreira, R.B.. "Electrolyzers: Principles and Types". In Encyclopedia of Energy Storage, 266-275. Elsevier, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819723-3.00095-0
Conference poster	Lopes, Vasco G.M.; Falcão, Daniela; Pinto, A.M.F.R.; Ferreira, R. B.. Corresponding author: Lopes, Vasco G.M.. "Performance Evaluation of Membranes and Electrodes for Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) Electrolysis". Paper presented in Doctoral Congress in Engineering, 2025. Ferreira, R. B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Numerical Simulation of the Membrane Chemical Degradation in a PEM fuel cell". Paper presented in 13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR 2018), 2018. Ferreira, R. B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Effects of surfaces wettability on the two-phase flow in the cathode gas channels of a PEM fuel cell". Paper presented in Hyceltec 2017 - VI Symposium on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries, 2017. Ferreira, R. B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Numerical simulations of the two phase flow in the anode channel of a PEMFC using the VOF method". Paper presented in European Hydrogen Energy Conference, 2014.
Edited book	A.M.F.R. Pinto; E. Doutel; João Carneiro; Lucília Ribeiro; Ferreira, R. B., ed. Book of Abstracts of the Symposium on Chemical and Biological Engineering from the 1st Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE 2015). Porto, Portugal. 2015. Editor
Journal article	Diogo F.M. Santos; D.S. Falcão; A.M.F.R. Pinto; Rui B. Ferreira. "Influence of the active area shape on the performance of an open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.04.360. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.04.360 Lopes, VGM; Falcao, DS; Pinto, AMFR; Ferreira, RB. "Performance evaluation of membranes and electrodes for anion exchange membrane electrolysis". Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (2025): 10.1016/j.jelechem.2025.119602. 10.1016/j.jelechem.2025.119602 Ferreira, Rui B.; Santos, Diogo F.M.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.; Falcão, D.S.. "Development and testing of a PEM fuel cell stack envisioning unmanned aerial vehicles applications". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 51 (2024): 1345-1353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.05.090. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.05.090 Diogo F.M. Santos; Daniela S. Falcão; Alexandra M.F.R. Pinto; Rui B. Ferreira. "Effect of membrane electrode assembly characteristics on the performance of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack designed for unmanned aerial vehicle applications". International Journal of Green Energy (2023): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15435075.2023.2244062. 10.1080/15435075.2023.2244062 Rocha, A.; Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Experimental study on a unitized regenerative fuel cell operated in constant electrode mode: Effect of cell design and operating conditions". Renewable Energy 215 (2023): 10.1016/j.renene.2023.05.128. 10.1016/j.renene.2023.05.128 R. B. Ferreira. "Evaluation of a fuel cell system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles". Energy 253 (2022): 124099-124099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124099. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124099 Rocha, A.G.; Ferreira, R.; Falcão, D.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Experimental Study on the Catalyst-Coated Membrane of a Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer". Energies 15 21 (2022): 10.3390/en15217937. 10.3390/en15217937 Rui B. Ferreira; D.S. Falcão; A.M.F.R. Pinto. "Simulation of membrane chemical degradation in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell by computational fluid dynamics". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 46 1 (2021): 1106-1120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.09.179. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.09.179 Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Experimental study on the membrane electrode assembly of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell: effects of microporous layer, membrane thickness and gas diffusion layer hydrophobic treatment". Electrochimica Acta 224 (2017): 337-345. 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.12.074. 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.12.074 Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "1D + 3D two-phase flow numerical model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell". Applied Energy 203 (2017): 474-495. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.048. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.048 Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Numerical simulations of two-phase flow in an anode gas channel of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell". Energy 82 (2015): 619-628. 10.1016/j.energy.2015.01.071. 10.1016/j.energy.2015.01.071 Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "A one-dimensional and two-phase flow model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell". Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 90 9 (2015): 1547-1551. 10.1002/jctb.4651. 10.1002/jctb.4651 Ferreira, R.B.; Falcão, D.S.; Oliveira, V.B.; Pinto, A.M.F.R.. "Numerical simulations of two-phase flow in proton exchange membrane fuel cells using the volume of fluid method - A review". Journal of Power Sources 277 (2015): 329-342. 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.11.124. 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.11.124 Zhang, X.; Ferreira, R.B.; Hu, J.; Spanjers, H.; van Lier, J.B.. "Improving methane production and phosphorus release in anaerobic digestion of particulate saline sludge from a brackish aquaculture recirculation system". Bioresource Technology 162 (2014): 384-388. 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.005. 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.005 Zhang, X.; Ferreira, R.B.; Spanjers, H.; Van Lier, J.B.. "Phosphatase activity and specific methanogenic activity in an Anaerobic reactor treating sludge from a brackish recirculation aquaculture system". Water Science and Technology 68 2 (2013): 387-393. 10.2166/wst.2013.263. 10.2166/wst.2013.263
Thesis / Dissertation	Ferreira, R. B.. "Two-phase flow in PEM fuel cells: 1D + 3D model development and numerical simulations". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2017. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/104215. Ferreira, R. B.. "Anaerobic digestion of sludge from marine recirculation aquaculture systems". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/65569.

Other distinction

2012	PhD Individual Grant (SFRH/BD/89572/2012) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal