Biography and Research Interests

Generally my friends and colleagues call me Zé Nuno. For those unfamiliar with Portuguese, "Zé" (pronounced "zed" with no "d") is the short name for José. I also use my second name (Nuno) to avoid confusion with the many other Portuguese "Zé"s. 

I graduated in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST-UTL), Portugal, in 1989 and obtained my PhD in Chemical Thermodynamics from the same institution in 1993. I was a post-doc at the Chemistry Department of Imperial College London, UK (1996). Currently I am Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at IST - Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL).

My research is carried out at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE/IST-UL) and is centered on molecular modeling of complex ?uids and materials, (e.g. ionic liquids, cement clinkers, carbon aggregates). Since January 2019 I have been the director of CQE.

My main contributions to the field of ionic liquids (ILs) are the development of a systematic forcefield describing IL homologous series, the recognition of ILs as nano-segregated media, the interpretation at a molecular level of the unique thermodynamic properties of ILs and their mixtures, and the study of ILs in the gas phase.

WebPage web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~jnlopes/ZNHP/

Email jnlopes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Office Phone (+351) 218 419 261

Researcher ID B-8109-2008

ORCID ID 0000-0002-4483-6294