Rui Carvalho is Associate Professor with “Agregação” at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Coimbra University and he is Principal Investigator at the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry – REQUINTE. He heads the group ‘NMR Metabolic Profiling’, focusing on Intermediary Metabolism & Disease, with special emphasis on detection of pathological metabolic alterations and mechanisms of metabolic remodelling. He has published over 160 papers with an h factor of 38. He has trained over 20 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral fellows and attracted research funds from Portuguese and International Research Agencies.