Alexandre Paiva

Alexandre Paiva is the Chief Executive Officer of DES Solutio Lda. He obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, in 2001, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering – Thermodynamics and Biocatalysis from the Technische Universität Hamburg, in Germany, in 2008. From 2010 to 2012, he was a part-time professor... at the Instituto Piaget. From 2009 to 2016 he was a Post-doc researcher at REQUIMTE, a non-profit scientific organization, working on the “Biodiesel production from green sources using supercritical technology” project. Since 2016, he is a senior researcher at LAQV@REQUIMTE. Alexandre Paiva has more than 30 papers in international scientific peer-reviewed journals. His main areas of expertise are sub-, supercritical fluids, biocatalysis, deep eutectic solvents and the application of these solvents in the valorization of agro-industrial by-products. He is/was involved in 1 Marie Curie project, and 4 scientific projects financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, being the principal investigator in 2 of those projects. He is/was also involved in 4 projects in collaboration with Portuguese and international companies. He has been awarded the 2nd place on the National entrepreneurship challenge E-Teams and also the 2nd place on the European entrepreneurship challenge Energy2B. He is the main supervisor of 4 PhDs and the co-supervisor of 2 more, and is/was the supervisor of more than 20 Master degree thesis.Read More