Carlos A. M. Afonso (1962, Portuguese) is currently Full Professor at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon. He received his PhD in 1990 under supervision of Professor C. D. Maycock, subsequently became Assistant Professor at New University of Lisbon and Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (2004-2010), and took a postdoctoral fellow (1990) at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (W.B. Motherwell) and sabbatical leave (1997/1998) at University of Bath,UK (Jonathan Williams) and at the University of Toronto (Robert Batey). His current research is mainly focused on catalyzed synthetic methodologies, green chemistry (reactions in water, ionic liquids, PEG, solvent free, catalyst reuse, membrane technology, photochemical reactions, electrosynthesis, flow chemistry), synthetic valorisation of national natural resources, development of new ionic liquids, biotransformations and synthesis of bioactive molecules.