With a Bachelor's Project on Physical Organic Chemistry and a Master's Thesis on Supramolecular and System's Chemistry, João has always been interested in frontier areas. Currently he is interested in using Organic Chemistry for the fabrication of functional materials as well as advanced NMR techniques such as as DNP-SSNMR. He has been working on the functionalization of porous materials for gas adsorption and catalysis, namely silicas for carbon dioxide sequestration.