João Gomes has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, which he finished in 2019, based on the advanced oxidation process for the contaminants of emerging concern removal through photocatalysis and ozonation based processes. His thesis was awarded with the “Willy Masschelein Prize 2019” by the International Ozone Association with a unanimous jury agreement expressing an impressive positive judgment. His current research is focused on the photocatalyst development to be active under visible light and to be coupled with ozone to perform the photocatalytic ozonation process. Alternatively, to this material development, he also considers the application of materials provided from different fields but with interesting properties for photocatalytic purposes. The application of these processes focuses on wastewater reuse for agriculture irrigation and the disinfection of drinking water to reduce the generation of disinfection by-products.

Moreover, his research work was already recognized by the University of Coimbra in 2022, awarded with the Honorable mention by the Scientific Publication Impact of the Faculty of Science and Technology from the University of Coimbra, according to the Web of Science database for 2021. As research activities, he has more than 80 peer review articles published. During the last years, he supervised more than 25 students with master’s and PhD in chemical and environmental engineering, as well as teaching in the chemical engineering field.

Over the years, he has performed more than 170 peer reviews for the chemical and environmental engineering fields. He led different special issues as a guest editor for MDPI journal, and he now working as an associate editor in two different journals (Pollutants from MDPI and Environmental, Development and Sustainability of Springer. Recently, he was selected for the Early Career Editorial Board from the Journal of Environmental and Chemical Engineering of Elsevier.