Date: May 24th
Hour: 2.30 p.m.
Venue: Técnico – Loures Campus, Auditorium

«Professor Joaquim Marçalo will give his last lecture titled “Lanthanides, actinides and other stories” on May 24th, at 2.30 p.m., in the Auditorium of the Loures Campus, thus marking more than 43 years dedicated to research.

The lecture will culminate with a gathering in the gardens of the Loures Campus that will bring together all the colleagues and friends who have accompanied the researcher on this long and brilliant journey.

Speaker bio:

Joaquim Marçalo was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1957. He graduated in chemical engineering in 1980 at the Technical University of Lisbon (IST – Instituto Superior Técnico). He then joined the Portuguese Nuclear Laboratory (later ITN) as a research assistant, working in radiochemistry and actinide chemistry. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1990 from IST with work in lanthanide and actinide coordination and organometallic chemistry, performed at ITN under the supervision of Dr. António Pires de Matos. He continued his career at the ITN, first as auxiliary researcher (1991-2005) and later as principal researcher (2006-onwards). Until the end of 2019 he was a member of the f-Element Chemistry Group of C2TN at IST, where ITN was integrated in 2012. Since January 2020 he is a member of the Inorganic and Organometallic Architectures, Reactivity and Catalysis (IOARC) Group of Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) of IST. He initiated in 1991 a new line of research in gas-phase chemistry of lanthanides and actinides (using mass spectrometry techniques) that remains as his main research interest. Additional research interests are in the field of coordination and organometallic chemistry of the f-elements and in the chemistry of noble gases.»