Holds a PhD in Biotechnology from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) (2009), Master in Biochemical Engineering (IST) (2001) after completing the Biochemistry degree in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (1997). Since 2006 has participated in the Master in Applied Microbiology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon on processes of production and purification of recombinant enzymes in bioreactor. Over the years he has participated in different research projects, many of them associated with the purification of enzymes for food application. In 2006 he co-founded the biotechnology company Fytozimus Biotech, Lda in which he developed a product that was recognized and licensed by the FDA for commercialization in the United States of America and Canada. Between 2011 and 2012 he participated in a research project in association with the company ECBio, SA for the purification of bioactive compounds with anti-tumor activity, being registered a patent (WO 2009/040778 A2, PT nº 103839). In 2012-13 participated actively in different lines of research in the Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of the Portuguese Catholic University, from which several articles related to the analysis and monitoring of fermentations using NIR and MIR spectroscopy were published. Since 2013, is a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, teaching different courses in the field of Biotechnology Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, which is currently its Coordinator. Actually is a Collaborative Researcher at GREEN-IT (ITQB-UNL).o

Pedro holds a PhD in “Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management” by the University of Nottingham. His thesis (Resilience in rail engineering planning) addressed human factors, efficiency and safety issues, as well as the impacts of complexity within the planning and delivery of rail engineering work based on a resilience framework.

He has close to 20 years of experience, both as a researcher and a consultant in the fields of human factors and ergonomics, occupational health and safety, risk management and resilience. He is currently President of the Portuguese Ergonomics Society (APERGO) and Treasurer of the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies (FEES). For over 10 years, he has lectured several courses on safety and human factors related subjects within academia. For the last 10 years, he has been an active member of the Resilience Engineering community and is currently Secretary of the Resilience Engineering Association.
Throughout various research and industry consultancy projects, he developed expertise on a wide variety of domains, namely in transport (road, rail, aviation and maritime), process industry and the oil & gas sector. Particularly in the railways, he worked for 3 years at Network Rail in London, UK and more recently, he cooperated with the Portuguese Government as an advisor on rail issues for the Secretary of State for Transport. He is currently an invited associate professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Transport of the Lusófona University (ULHT), a researcher at CENTEC – Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering of the University of Lisbon and at the CIMCYC – Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento at the University of Granada.

P. Carmona holds a PhD in Leaders for Technical Industries from IST, MIT (2012). Degree in Industrial Engineering and Master in Engineering Physics. Assistant Prof. at ULHT and Invited Prof. at ISEL. Main areas of work and R&D focus on Industrial Management, Innovation and Mechanical Engineering.