Renato Gil is a Research Fellow in the Water Quality Research Group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) since 2022. His research is focused on developing miniaturized potentiometric sensors based on ion-selective membranes and their integration into microfluidic platforms for online monitoring of relevant water chemical parameters.

Renato Gil is a pharmacist who graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an MSc (2014) and a European PhD degree (Analytical Chemistry Specialty, 2022) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto (Portugal). During his PhD, he focused on the synergic coupling between liquid chromatography and potentiometric detection to develop cost-effective and reliable analytical applications for food and water analysis. Renato published 9 peer-reviewed papers, 7 as a first author, 3 book chapters, and performed 12 oral communications and 5 poster presentations at national and international conferences. U.Porto Innovation has awarded him at the Business Ignition Programme 2020.