Edgar Pinto

Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Prof. Edgar Pinto graduated in Environmental Health (2009) at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Sustainable Chemistry (2014) at the University of Porto. He is a Professor at the School of Health - P.Porto and a researcher at LAQV/REQUIMTE, a Portuguese research center for Sustainable Chemistry. He has vast experience in the fields of analytical, food, and environmental chemistry, and his main interests are the study of nutrients and contaminants transfer in the soil-water-plant system under abiotic stress and the use of mass spectrometry techniques (in particular, LC-MS/MS and ICP-MS) in the analysis of both nutrients and contaminants in food and environmental matrices. His highly-interdisciplinary research covers the areas of food, clinical, environmental, and analytical chemistry. For the last 10 years, he has been a researcher in 10 projects with competitive funding. He is the author of more than 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Edgar Pinto