André Miguel da Costa Lopes received both B.Sc. (2010) and M.Sc. (2012) degrees in Biotechnology from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Since December 2017, he holds a PhD degree in Sustainable Chemistry from New University of Lisbon. His PhD thesis covered the application of ionic liquids in the valorization of agriculture and industrial wastes. In 2018 he had returned to University of Aveiro as postdoctoral researcher associated to CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials and was involved in the BBI project PROVIDES - PROcesses for Value added fibres by Innovative Deep Eutectic Solvents. In 2020, he got a researcher position at CICECO in collaboration with the Collaborative Laboratory Towards Circular Economy (CECOLAB). He is specialized in the development of green and sustainable technologies for the valorization of lignocellulosic biomass using alternative solvents (e.g. ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, supercritical CO2, among others) towards the integration in biorefineries. He is co-author of 24 peer-review papers published in leading international journals, in which one of his publications (Green Chem, 2017, 19, 4200-4233) was highlighted in annual collection Green Chemistry Hot Articles (2017). His work has been highly cited (>1200) with h-index = 13 (Scopus database). He is also the co-author of 3 book chapters, 2 conference proceedings and he is an inventor of 3 Portuguese patents (PT106743-B, PT106947-B and 108402-A) and 1 other filled patent.