Vítor J.P. Vilar earned his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2001. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at FEUP in 2006, in Environmental Technologies. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at FEUP in water management. He pursued his post-doctorate research in solar driven advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), at FEUP and Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA). He worked as Assistant Researcher (2009-2013) in the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, FEUP, under the Ciência 2008 program. Since Dec. 2014, he has been a Principal Researcher in LSRE-LCM, under the Investigator FCT 2013 (IF/00273/2013) and CEEC Individual 2017 FCT (CEECIND/01317/2017) programs. In 2014, he was awarded a three-year “Special Visiting Researcher” grant, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, sponsored by the Brazilian Ciência Sem Fronteiras program.