Paulo N. Martinho received his PhD degree in Chemistry at the University College Dublin in 2010 under the ERA-Chemistry transnational scheme. Following this, he continued on his research career as a postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on device fabrication with spin switching materials. In 2012, he started a second postdoc position at the University of Lisbon where he established his own research line on molecular magnetism and the use of paramagnetic molecules as catalysts for activation of small molecules.
Paulo Martinho has been recently appointed as an independent researcher, securing a highly competitive CEEC Individual research position at the Assistant Researcher level in the 2017 call. As a result, he was named the head of the inorganic molecules and materials lab and the coordinator (CQE@CIÊNCIAS) of the Inorganic and Organometallic Architectures, Reactivity and Catalysis (IOARC).
This position gained him a sizeable experience in the supervision of more than 30 students from undergraduate to graduate level. Along with 2 postdoc researchers, 2 PhD, 1 MSc and 2 undergraduate students, he is now working with one junior researcher.
Paulo Martinho is also a lecturer of the practical course of inorganic chemistry (BSc) and a lecturer of supramolecular chemistry and nanochemistry (MSc). During semester 1 of 2018/2019 he was a visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. Paulo Martinho has been the Principal Investigator in several research projects from different funding agencies (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Royal Society of Chemistry) and he is now the PI of two running projects on magnetic actuators and photoreduction of carbon dioxide. At the European level, he has been in the management committee of COST actions (CM1305 – ECOSTBio, CA15128 – MOLSPIN and CA21101 – COSY).
Paulo Martinho has 36 publications and has published several high-impact papers as corresponding author (15), and as the first author (10) in international peer-reviewed journals with an H-index of 13. He has been appointed member of the editorial board of the journals Sustainability, Frontiers in Chemistry and the Journal of Coordination Chemistry. He has been the recipient of the 2017 Arthur E. Martell Early Career Researcher Prize.
Paulo Martinho has organised international meetings and enjoys an international-level recognition through several invited lectures at international conferences and invited seminars at distinct universities across Europe.
Research topics
Coordination compounds
Molecular magnetism
Electro(Photo)reduction of CO2