Armando José Latourrette de Oliveira Pombeiro is a Portuguese chemical engineer. He was born in 1949 in Porto, Portugal. His education includes Chemical Engineering (1971, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical Univ. Lisbon); D. Phil. (1976, University of Sussex, England; supervisors: Prof. J. Chatt and Dr. R.L. Richards). He is currently a Full Professor (IST, since 1989) and Coordinator/Founder of the research Group on “Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Electrochemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis”. Pombeiro is a Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (since 1988), Member of the International Society of Electrochemistry, and was Chairman of the XXV Int. Conf. Organometallic Chemistry (XXV ICOMC, 2012). As a published author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide. Source: Wikipedia (en)