
Adélio Mendes
University of Porto
PT
Professor
Adélio Mendes (born 1964) received his PhD degree from the University of Porto
in 1993. Currently he is full professor at the Chemical Engineering Department
of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, where he coordinates a
large research team with interests mainly focused on electrolysis, fuel cells,
photovoltaic cells (dye sensitized solar cells – DSSC and perovskite solar
cells – PSC), photoelectrochemical cells, electroreduction of CO2, redox flow
batteries, chemical membrane reactors, membrane and adsorption-based separation
processes and carbon molecular sieve membranes. Professor Mendes authored or
co-authored more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed international journals,
filed 25 families of patents and is the author of a textbook. He was the
recipient of an Advanced Research Grant from the ERC on the project 'building
integrated dye-sensitized solar cells' for ca. 2 MEuros and leads or has led
several EU projects, namely two from Future and Emerging Technologies program
(FET). Prof. Mendes’ awards include Air Products Faculty Excellence 2011 Award
(USA), Solvay & Hovione Innovation Challenge 2011 and the Coimbra
University Prize of 2016.