Editorial Biography





Salete Balula

Salete Balula

Principal Researcher,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Porto
Portugal
Biography

Salete graduated in Technological Chemistry at Univ of Lisbon in 1997 and completed a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Univ. of Aveiro in 2004. Salete worked for approximately two years in international research groups: Emory Univ, USA, and De Montfort Univ, UK, learning innovative methodologies to prepare oxomettalic compounds. After the PhD, she started postdoctoral work in ox metal complexes: synthesis and catalytic applications, at the Univ. of York, UK, and in CICECO. During this time, she developed her expertise in Material Science and Catalysis. Since 2009 she has been a researcher in LAQV-REQUIMTE /DQB FCUP working in oxidative catalysis. She published more than 110 papers in international journals (h-index = 33).

Research Interest

Materials, Heterogeneous catalysts for epoxidation.