Pedro T. Gomes was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He is fluent in Portuguese (native language), English, French and Spanish, and has a good reading knowledge of Italian. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (five-year degree, ~MEng), obtained an MSc in Chemistry of Catalytic Processes, and completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering/Chemistry in 1990 at the Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST–UTL), under the supervision of Professors Alberto R. Dias and Carlos Romão. During this period, he spent several research stays in France at laboratories including the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (IRC, Lyon), the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC, Toulouse), and the Laboratoire des Matériaux Organiques (LMO, Solaize). From 1991 to 1993, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (ICL), University of Oxford, UK, under the supervision of Professor Malcolm L. H. Green FRS, and a Senior Research Associate at Holywell Manor, Balliol College. He is currently a professor at IST (Técnico) – Universidade de Lisboa (IST–ULisboa), Portugal, and conducts his research at the Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE-IST), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS). From 2015 to 2024, he coordinated the research group Inorganic and Organometallic Architectures, Reactivity and Catalysis (IOARC) at CQE-IST. Between 2015 and 2019, he served on the Board of the IST Department of Chemical Engineering, with responsibility for international affairs. His research interests lie in organometallic and coordination chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and luminescent and magnetic coordination compounds for functional devices. His main contributions include the synthesis of nickel and other first-row, earth-abundant transition metal complexes and their application as catalysts for olefin oligomerization/polymerization and hydrofunctionalization of unsaturated molecules, as well as the synthesis and characterization of luminescent Group 12 and 13 metal complexes for functional materials (e.g. OLEDs). He has co-authored around 130 publications, including peer-reviewed international journal articles, book chapters, and national and international patents. He has delivered numerous invited lectures and oral communications at national and international conferences. He has supervised 11 PhD theses, numerous MSc dissertations, 10 postdoctoral researchers, and several other research fellows. He has participated in multiple research projects as Principal Investigator or collaborator. He has also been involved in collaborative projects with the Portuguese chemical industry, including SGL Carbon, SA (formerly FISIPE, SA; synthetic fibres based on acrylonitrile), Dercol, SA (rosin derivatives), and Oxiquímica (rosin derivatives). He was an Invited Academic Visitor at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, in 1998 and 2002. He was Invited Professor (2014) and Visiting Professor (2018) at Sorbonne Université (UPMC campus), Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, Paris, France. From 2016 to 2018, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Trieste, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Italy. In 2026, he was a Visiting Professor at the Universität Graz, Austria, in the Institute of Chemistry. In 2010, he received the IST Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2026, he was awarded the biennial Alberto Romão Dias Award by the Division of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ), in recognition of the quality, originality and independence of his research work carried out in Portugal in the fields of inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry.