Murilo Leite Alcantara

Dr. Alcantara is Chemical Engineering researcher with expertise in thermodynamics, COSMO-RS, COSMO-SAC, ionic liquids, carbon capture and conversion, as well as high-pressure experiments and analysis. He earned his BS (2013), MD (2015), and PhD (2019) in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia. His national research experience includes stints at UEM (4 months, 2015), UFRJ (3 months, 2016), and UERJ (3 months, 2016). Internationally, he has conducted research in the USA (3 months, 2011) and at the Universidad de Cantabria, Spain (1 year, 2018).He completed two postdoctoral projects in 2021 and 2023 in Chemical Engineering at the University of São Paulo (USP), funded by Shell through the Research Centre for Gas Innovation, and by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). Since 2023, Dr. Alcantara has been a researcher at CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is involved in the MeBattery project, funded by the European Innovation Council, focusing on the use of COSMO to develop solvents for membrane-free flow batteries. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)