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José J. G. Moura has a degree in Chemical Engineering, a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and is Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (FCT NOVA). For extended periods, he was Research Specialist at the University of Minnesota and Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens (USA). José Moura served as President of the Chemistry Department and as President of the Scientific Council at FCT NOVA. He was Portuguese Delegate to COST and INTAS, a member of the Scientific Panel in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FCT/MCTES, NST (USA) Specialised Panel, and of several scientific editorial boards. In 2010, was elected President of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, for 2 years. José Moura is Director of the Campus Library, the Department of Documentation and Culture and coordinator of the FabLab (in duty) at FCT NOVA. He actively promotes culture/science interfaced activities and is curator of several multidisciplinary activities (STEAM).
José Moura has more than 600 publications. 425 publications are indexed at Scopus, where they collect 15,371 citations and originate an h-index of 66. He is also co-editor of 2 Books, of The Royal Society of Chemistry and Springer, and of 1 special issue of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Reflecting this prolific work, José Moura is an active participant in numerous international and national conferences as invited plenary and keynote speaker. He has been PI of several R&D Projects (26), participating also as a research member in several others (21). He has an extended experience in student and researchers supervision (25 Post-Doctoral fellows, 44 PhD Theses and also several Master and Undergraduate students). In 2006, he was elected Member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa and, in 2021, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), having been awarded with several other Distinctions, Prizes and Honours, in particular, in 2022, with the Ferreira da Silva award from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Química.
José Moura’s research interests are focused in the role of Metals in Biology, having actively and notably contributed to the emergence and establishment of the Bioinorganic Chemistry in Portugal and internationally. His research efforts have been mainly devoted to the study of structure-function relationships in metalloproteins (with great emphasis on the metabolism of carbon, sulfur and nitrogen), mastering biochemical, spectroscopic (NMR, EPR and Mössbauer) and bioelectrochemical methodologies. Metalloproteins containing heme and non-heme iron, molybdenum, tungsten, nickel, copper, vanadium and cobalt have been at the centre of his attention, as well as, some model inorganic systems and biocatalytic mimetics. 

Key-words: Bioinorganic Chemistry; Inorganic Biochemistry; Spectroscopy (NMR, EPR and Mössbauer); Biophysics; Biocatalysis; Energy Bioconversion (Hydrogen); Protein-Protein interactions; Science Outreaching; STEAM 

ORCID JM 0000-0002-4726-2388
Researcher ID D-6426-2013
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