Fátima Montemor

Maria de Fátima Montemor is a Portuguese researcher known for her work in coatings for surface protection and functionality, and materials for electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices. She is a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.

Education and career Montemor graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) in 1989. She went on to complete her PhD in chemical engineering in 1995. In 2003 she started her research career at the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant researcher. In 2011, Montemor became an assistant professor and reached the position of associate professor in 2015. In 2017 she got her "Agregação" title in Chemical Engineering and started her teaching activity as a full professor in 2018. As of 2021 she is a full professor Department of Chemical Engineering and a researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural. and the European Corrosion Medal 2019 for her work in coatings for corrosion protection and corrosion science. In 2021, she received the degree of Doctor "Honoris Causa" from the University of Mons for her work in the domain of coatings for surface protection and functionalization.