Jacinto Sá

Dr. Sá (docent, habilitation, Ph.D.-Physical-Chemistry) is the group leader of Nanoleaves and Heterogeneous Catalysis at Uppsala University and Modern Heterogeneous Catalysis (MohCa) at Institute of Physical-Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. He got his MSc in Chemistry field of Analytical Chemistry at the Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and Ph.D degree in 2007 by the University of Aberdeen (UK) in the field of catalysis and surface science. Dr. Sá did a 3-year postdoc at the CenTACat group at Queen’s University Belfast and afterwards a 3-year scientist position at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland). In 2013, he joined the Laboratory for Ultrafast Spectroscopy, at the EPFL (Switzerland). In 2014, Uppsala University, Department of Chemistry (Sweden) and Institute of Physical-Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) appointed him as associate professor jointly. Dr. Sá research efforts are focused on the understanding of the elemental steps of catalysis, in particular the ones taking place in artificial photosynthesis with nano-plasmonic structures. Dr. Sá is an expert in using accelerator based light sources (synchrotrons, XFELs,...) to diagnose processes with atomic specificity and under operating conditions, makes him one of the most experienced researchers in this area. He has pioneered the use of core-level photon-in photon-out spectroscopy with von Hamos spectrometer for a plethora of applications, including to unveil chemotherapy drugs action mechanism (atomic telemetry), (photo-)catalysis characterization and mechanistic studies, material characterization, non-linear physics, etc.