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Simone Morais has a PhD (1998) in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (Portugal). She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal). She develops her research activity at the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE), in the fields of Environmental and Analytical Sciences, (Bio)Sensors and Application of Functional Nanostructured Materials. S. Morais co-authored about 160 articles published in international journals with high impact factors (h-index: 34 - Scopus ID 7007053747) and 30 book chapters in international publishers, having supervised several PhD and post-doctoral fellows, and having coordinated and participated in several projects.

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Christopher Brett is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and is President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) 2020–21. After his MA and DPhil in Electrochemistry at the University of Oxford, he spent a year at British Petroleum, London, before moving to Coimbra in 1981. His research interests are related to the development of new materials in electrochemistry and their application in different areas, particularly in sensing. This has included new nanostructured electrode materials and nanomaterials on modified electrodes, the use of electroactive and redox polymers, corrosion and its inhibition, electrochemical aspects of green chemistry, electrochemical sensors and biosensors. Most recently, he has been exploring deep eutectic solvents for the preparation of nanostructured materials with different properties than those made in aqueous media and room temperature ionic liquids for electrochemical sensors and biosensors. Applications have been in environmental, food and pharmaceutical areas, stretching over 300 publications. He is the Director of the Electroanalysis and Corrosion Laboratory, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra, the technological innovation link between the University of Coimbra and the industrial sector, which provides services in analytical electrochemistry, environmental chemistry and evaluation of corrosion. He is President of the Iberoamerican Society of Electrochemistry 2020–22, was President of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) from 2007–8, and was President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Portuguese Chemical Society 2018–20.

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Alina Vasilescu received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from University of Bucharest, Romania and University of Perpignan, France, in 2001. After a postdoc at the University of Toronto, Canada, and involvement in both academic and industrial research, she joined the International Centre of Biodynamics in Bucharest, Romania in 2011, where she currently works as a researcher. Her research activity is centred on the development of biosensors for practical applications.