Luisa Carvalho is graduated Chemical Engineering, holds a MSc in Wood Science from University of Nancy I (currently Université de Lorraine), a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto and a Habilitation in Chemical Engineering from the University of Coimbra. She is currently coordinator professor at ESTGV(IPV-Polytechnic Institute of Viseu) where she teaches in the course of Licenciatura in Furniture Technology and Design and is member of the Technical and Scientific Council of ESTGV. She was also invited Professor at ESTGF(IPP-Polytechninc Institute of Porto in the course of "Licenciatura" in Wood Technology. She is staff member of LEPABE (Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy) integrated in the Associate Laboratory for Innovation in Chemical Engineering (ALICE).
She serves on the Board of several research and innovation non-profit organizations that act as interfaces between industry and academia, including the CoLab Association Competence Network in Polymers (Vice-President of GA and former member of its board of directors 2013-2019), APAA-Portuguese Society of Adhesion and Adhesives (Vice-President of GA), INNOMOB-Innovation Centre for Wood and Furniture, Cluster of Sustainable Habitat and Innovawood, an international organization dedicated to the forest-based sector. She is President of SC2-wood-based panels from the national standardization committee CT14-wood and Expert of CEN/TC112 in representation of IPQ (Portuguese Institute of Quality) and Technical Expert of IPAC(Portuguese Institute for the Accreditation). She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives (Elsevier) and Journal of Adhesion (Taylor and Francis) and Editorial Board Member of Materials and Reviewer Board member of Polymers (MDPI).
Her research interests include sustainable materials, such as wood, cork and agroforest subproducts based composites, biobased adhesives for wood, formaldehyde and VOCs emissions, machinability, coatings and surfaces.