Artur M. S. Silva is currently a full professor at the Chemistry Department and Vice-rector for research, innovation and doctoral school of the University of Aveiro. He was the President of the Portuguese Chemical Society 2016-2023. He obtained both a BSc in Chemistry-Physics (1987) and the PhD in Organic Chemistry (1993) degrees at the University of Aveiro. He published more than 840 SCI papers, 2 e-books, 54 book chapters, delivered more than 64 lectures in scientific meetings and is co-author of 5 patents. He supervised 19 post-doctoral fellows, 41 PhD students and 43 MSc students; he has also participated in 33 financed Portuguese and European projects and in 8 bilateral financed projects with European Research Groups. His research interests range from the chemistry of polyphenolic and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, with special emphasis on the development of new sustainable synthetic routes, and also on the organocatalytic and metal-catalyzed transformations. The second passion of his research is centered on the isolation and structural characterization of natural products from diverse terrestrial and marine sources. The third axis of their research is focused on the synthesis of biologically active oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, as well as on the evaluation of their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor and antimicrobial activity in collaboration with other Portuguese and International research groups.
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