Come and find out how doctoral studies work, meet your peers and key contacts. You will learn about your duties and rights, project opportunities, the amount and composition of the minimum doctoral income, which deadlines to keep track of from the very beginning and who to turn to for what.

This event is intended for PhD students entering their 1st year in September 2026 and will be held in English.

Assoc. Prof. Luís M. N. B. F. Santos is a distinguished physical chemist at the University of Porto, Portugal, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the Centre for Chemistry Research (CIQUP). His research focuses primarily on chemical thermodynamics and the physicochemical characterization of molecular and ionic systems, with particular emphasis on ionic liquids, thermophysical properties, phase equilibria, calorimetry, and their relationship to molecular structure. He has made significant contributions to the thermodynamic characterization and understanding of ionic liquids and related materials, combining precise experimental measurements with structural and computational approaches. Most notably, he was one of the pioneers in the study of the volatility of ionic liquids and, subsequently, protic ionic liquids, and developed specialized equipment and methodologies for investigating their vaporization behaviour.