Reinaldo Souza is an Investigador (Engenharia Mecânica) at the Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in the area of Thermal Sciences (2014). He has a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution and research area (2010). He graduated in Physics at UFSC having completed the Licence (2005) and Bachelor's (2007). He participated in a research project developed at Lepten/Boiling at UFSC with the support of the Brazilian Space Agency-AEB and Brazilian Aerospace Institute-IAE, through the Microgravity Program. In parallel with his doctorate, he was a Tutor of a Physics course in distance learning at UFSC. He was Professor of Physics at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Universidade Sociedade Educacional de Santa Catarina (UNISOCIESC) and SENAI Florianópolis. His main interests: are heat transfer, nanofluids, thermal conductivity, pool boiling, two-phase flows, metal foams, micropillars, nanocoating techniques, and renewable energy.