Nuno Manuel Xavier
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Biography
Nuno M. Xavier received a dual PhD degree in organic chemistry from the University of Lisbon and from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon in 2011 (advisors: Prof. Amélia P. Rauter and Dr. Yves Queneau, respectively). He was afterwards a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna in the group of Prof. Paul Kosma. He then returned to the University of Lisbon as postdoctoral member until the end of 2013, whereupon he was awarded an Investigator Starting Grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Since then, he is Researcher (FCT Investigator) at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. His research activities, reported in 25 publications, are focused on the synthesis of new carbohydrate-based molecules of therapeutic interest, for which he has been internationally recognized with various Young Scientist Awards. He is a member of the IUPAC Carbohydrate Nomenclature Task Group.