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Costa Vieira A J D S

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Chemistry

Institution: New University of Lisbon

Country: Portugal

Abel Vieira is born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1951. He obtained his Graduation in Chemical Engineering in 1974 at Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon), his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1988 at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and his Habilitation in Chemistry, specialty Organic Chemistry in 2011 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In both Universities, he has been the professor of several disciplines in the area of Organic Chemistry. His main research interests are in the area of Physical Organic Chemistry, Radical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry. He integrates a research group in Green Chemistry at Universidade Nova de Lisboa – LAQV-REQUIMTE – where he runs his own research group (Oxidative stress and Antioxidants) and keeps several collaborations with other Portuguese and foreign groups, mainly in France and Germany. He supervised several Ph.D. and Post-Doc students, is a referee of international peer-reviewed journals and member of Scientific Societies, such as the Portuguese Chemical Society, where he was the head of the Free Radicals Group. He participated in / organized national and international scientific conferences, was a member of a European COST Action and published in high IF journals (see the list of publications). Professor Vieira, besides his mother language, Portuguese, is fluent in French, German and English.