Apresentação Pessoal

Professor Adélio Mendes (born 1964) received his PhD degree from the University of Porto in 1993. Currently is full professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto.

Coordinates a large research team with research interests mainly in photovoltaic cells (DSSC and PSC), photoelectrochemical cells, electroreduction of CO₂, batteries (RFB and SIB), fuel cells, electrolysis, chemical membrane reactors, methane splitting, green methanol, adsorption-based separation processes, and carbon molecular sieve membranes.

Professor Mendes authored or co-authored ca. 500 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, filed more than 35 families of patents, and authored a textbook; he was the recipient of an Advanced Research Grant from the ERC on dye-sensitized solar cells for building integrated of ca. 2 M¤, in 2013, led/leads several EU projects, namely from FET-Open, EIC-Pathfinder, and EIC-Transition programs; leads a large project on Green-Methanol of ca. 6.5 M¤. 11 start-up companies co-owned by former or present researchers from his research team were created from his research activities.

Prof. Mendes’ awards include Air Products Faculty Excellence 2011 Award (USA), Solvay & Hovione Innovation Challenge 2011, Ramos Catarino Innovation Award 2011-2012, ACP Diogo Vasconcelos Applied Research Award 2011, Municipal Medal of Merit by the City of Porto Merit – Gold Degree in 2015, Coimbra University Prize of 2016, Scientific Excellence Award by FEUP in 2016, Technology Innovation Award 2017 by the U.Porto and The PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize 2019 (com Catarina G. Braz, Henrique A. Matos, Adélio Mendes, Jorge Rocha, Ricardo Alvim) and Scientific Excellence Award by U.Porto in 2025. He was the director and founder of the Competence Network in Polymers, and he was president and founder of the VG-CoLAB – Energy Storage. Presently, he is vice president of VG CoLAB and a member of the HyLab board. He is also a member of the CNCTI council.