Paulo Ferreira is currently the Head of the Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy Center and the Group Leader of the Atomic Structure-Composition of Materials Group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal. He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal and an Adjunct Professor, Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering in the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Before joining INL and IST in Portugal, he was Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty in Engineering and Full Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and the Director of Electron Microscopy at the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois, USA and has done his Post-doctoral work at MIT in Materials Science and Engineering. He concentrates his scientific research in the areas of Materials Science, Nanomaterials and Electron Microscopy applied to alternative energy materials and 2D materials. At the educational level, he teaches graduate courses in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Structure and Electron Microscopy. In parallel, he has been involved in initiatives with various American and Portuguese institutions in the areas of Education and Higher Education, Systems of Innovation, and Science and Technology. He is co-author of three books, namely “Materials 2000”, IST Press, 2003, “Investing in the Future: University-Industry Collaborations in USA and Portugal”; and “Nanotechnology for Architects, Designers and Engineers” with co-authors D. Schodek (Harvard University) and Michael Ashby (University of Cambridge, UK). He is also the author of 205 scientific articles published in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Prof. Ferreira has also acted as a special advisor to the Minister of Economics and Innovation, Portugal, on Government Strategy for Science & Technology, and he is part of the Selection Nomination Committee of the Japan Prize. He is also the Vice-President of the Portuguese Society for Microscopy.

• Somaye Rasouli, Deborah Myers, Nancy Kariuki, Kenji Higashida, Naotoshi Nakashima, Paulo Ferreira
  Electrochemical Degradation of Pt-Ni Nanocatalysts: An Identical Location Aberration-Corrected STEM Study
  Nano Letters, 19 (1), pp. 46-53, (2018)

• Charles Amos, Manuel Roldan, Maria Varela, John Goodenough, Paulo Ferreira
  Revealing the Reconstructed Surface of Li[Mn2]O4
  Nanoletters, Vol. 16, pp 2899–2906 (2016)
  

• Thandavarayan Maiyalagan, Karalee A. Jarvis, Soosairaj Therese, Paulo J. Ferreira, Arumugam Manthiram
  Spinel-type lithium cobalt oxide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions
  Nature Communications 5, 3949, pp. 1-8, (2014)

• Y. Zhu, S. Murali, M. Stoller, K.J. Ganesh, W. Cai, P.J. Ferreira, A. Pirkle, R. M. Wallace, K.A. Cychosz, M. Thommes, D. Su, E. Stach, R. Ruoff
  Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene
  Science, 24 June, pp. 1537-1541, (2011)

• K. Jarvis, Z. Deng, L.F. Allard, A. Manthiram, P.J. Ferreira
  Atomic Structure of a Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Material for Lithium-ion Batteries: Evidence of a Solid Solution
  Chemistry of Materials, 23, 16, pp. 3614-3621, (2011)