Mara FreireFreire graduated in Chemistry in 2003 and completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2007 by University of Aveiro, Portugal. After several assignments abroad and post-doctoral activities at New University of Lisbon, since 2014 she is a Coordinator esearcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro. Freire is the Coordinator of Group 5 of CICECO and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of University of Aveiro. She is member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. Freire published +220 scientific manuscripts, 14 book chapters and edited one book, and has +10,000 citations and h-index of 61. Freire coordinated/participated in 22 R&D projects, among which a Starting and a Proof of Concept Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). She has filled 7 national patents, and 3 international patents. She received several scientific awards as well as awards related with technology transfer and business ideas. Her research interests comprise the development of cost-effective separation processes for high-value compounds, most of the times resorting to ionic liquids. Read More Read Less