Dr. de Sa Peixoto studied Biophysics and Chemistry at Sorbonne University in Paris, graduating in 2007. He then joined the laboratory of Chemistry of Condense Matter in Paris and received his PhD in 2010. After three years of postdoctoral fellowship, he obtained a Researcher position in the laboratory of Laboratory of Material and Transformations, affiliated to Lilla university. He has published more than 34 articles (approximately 70% as first or corresponding author) in leading journals in the field (70% with an impact factor >5 and 30% with an impact factor >8). He is the inventor on two patents.