Samuel Santos earned his Bachelor’s (2011) and Master’s (2013) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL) at Lisbon Polytechnic. His master’s thesis centered on the use of amine solutions for CO₂ capture and release in flue gases, leading to both a published scientific article and a book.
Between 2013 and 2015, Samuel contributed to the ACoPP project (Advanced Near Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant) funded by the EU. In 2015, he became a Research Fellow in the ECOFOULESS project, where he worked on anti-fouling solutions to control biofouling in aquaculture. He continued this research trajectory in the GREENFUEL project, where he remained until early 2017.
From 2017 to 2024, Samuel pursued a PhD in Chemical Engineering through the CATSUS Doctoral Program at CERENA, Instituto Superior Técnico. His dissertation, "Development of Nanocatalysts from Calcium Waste Materials in Biodiesel Production," was supervised by Professors João Gomes (ISEL-CERENA), Jaime Puna (ISEL-CERENA), Rosa Quinta-Ferreira (FCT-Universidade de Coimbra), and João Bordado (IST-CERENA). Samuel is now a Researcher at CoLAB C5Lab – Sustainable Construction Materials Association.