José Carlos Pinto has a Master’s degree (1987) and a PhD degree (1991) in Chemical Engineering from Coppe/UFRJ and is a full professor at UFRJ where he started his teaching career in Coppe’s Chemical Engineering Program in 1992. In 2000, he did a post-doc on chemical reactors. José Carlos has been Coppe’s R&D Director from 2013 until 2015, and from 2011 until 2015 he has also been the CEO of Coppetec Foundation (Coordination of Projects, Researches and Technological Studies), a non-profit institution, responsible for contracts between companies and the University.