Álvaro Frederico Campos Vaz. Completed the PhD dgree in Paper Engineering in 2005 by Universidade da Beira Interior, MSc. degree in Master of Business Administration in 1997 by Porto Business School in Universidade of Porto and graduation in Chemical Engineering in 1987 by Engineering Faculty of University of Porto. He is an integrated member of FibEnTech (Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies) and an Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department of University of Beira Interior. Published 7 articles in journals. He participated as Principal investigator in 1 project. He works in the area of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Materials Engineering, mainly pulp and paper. In his professional activities interacted with 18 collaborators in the co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific output are: beating; refining; chemical pulps; rheology; hydromechanics; pulp properties; paper properties; pulp refining; design of experiments; vessel picking; ink refusal; enzymatic treatment; mechanical treatment; eucalytus globulus; Paper Science and Technology; chemical pulps; pulp evaluation; fibre properties; refinability; Valley beater; paper properties; Cytisus striatus; sulfite pretreatment; enzymatic hydrolysis; response surface methodology; shear factor; fibre suspension; Pinus sylvestris; Eucalyptus globulus; Betula verrucosa; vessel passivation.