Dr. Salete Balula

Dr. Salete S. Balula graduated in technological chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1997 and completed a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of Aveiro in 2004. After completing her Ph.D. studies, she started postdoctoral work in oxometal complexes: synthesis and catalytic applications. She shared this postdoctoral period with work at the Green Chemistry Centre of the University of York, UK, and CICECO Laboratory, University of Aveiro. She started her independent research career in 2009 as an assistant investigator, and since 2015, she has been a principal investigator in LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCUP, University of Porto. Recently, she started a new research line in the area of glycerol conversion in valuable products, and she was the principal investigator of the financed project PTDC/CTM-CTM/31983/2017. Her main research interests are synthesis, catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, materials chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, coordination chemistry, inorganic synthesis, inorganics, coordination chemistry, and metal complexes.