Artur J. M. Valente obtained a Ph.D. in 1999 from Coimbra University. In 2015 he got the Habilitation in Chemistry. He is currently Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Chemistry Department of the University of Coimbra. During his PhD studies he works as visiting scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences at Moscow and Free University of Brussels, Belgium. He was Guest Researcher at Lund University, Invited Researcher at the University of Alicante and Visiting Professor at the State University of Maringá, Brazil. He is currently Director of the Department of Chemistry, Coordinator of Doctoral Programme in Chemistry and leader of the Transport Phenomena and Macromolecules research group of the Coimbra Chemistry Centre. He was supervisor of more than 50 MSc, PhD and post-doc students. His research interests focus on the transport properties in solution and through polymers, on the development of biopolymers and gels for drug delivery, sensing and water remediation, on supramolecular host-guest interactions; and interactions between surfactants and polyelectrolytes, and multivalent metal ions. He has over 270 research articles and over 30 invited lectures in meetings. Additionally, he has published 2 books, 20 book chapters and is co-editor of 2 books. He is co-author of 8 patents (some are pending).Currently he is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular Liquids, Associate Editor of Polímeros: Ciência e Tecnologia and Portugaliae Electochimica Acta.