Affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Processos Químicos e Bioquímicos, Escola de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-909 Brazil

José Carlos Pinto holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal da Bahia (1985) and M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (1987, 1991). He is a full professor in COPPE's Chemical Engineering Program (UFRJ), a permanent member of Graduate Program in Chemical and Biochemical Process Engineering(UFRJ), and member of the editorial boards of the journals Polímeros: Ciência e Tecnologia (ABPol), Macromolecular Reaction Engineering (Wiley) and Processes (MDPI). He has been a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2010 and the National Academy of Engineering since 2014. He has experience in Chemical Engineering, with a general emphasis on chemical reactors and a particular focus on the modeling, simulation, and control of polymerization systems. He has published over 500 papers, with over 12,000 citations in WOS, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases, with an h-index of 54 (February 24, 2024).