Filipe Almeida Paz, born in Oiã (Portugal) in 1978, holds a first University degree in Chemistry (Analytical) from the University of Aveiro (in 2000). In January 2001, after being awarded a merit scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), he headed to the United Kingdom to study towards his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse College) under the supervision of Professor Jacek Klinowski (Physical Chemistry, University Chemical Laboratories). In 2001 he obtained his Certificate of Post-Graduate Studies in Natural Sciences, and in February 2004 he had his Ph.D. viva, both in Natural Sciences working on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and zeolites. During this period he taught at the University of Cambridge for a continuous period of 2 years (part IB demonstrations at the Physical Chemistry sector) and was responsible for installing a Physical Chemistry Laboratory. Filipe returned to Portugal in the first half of 2004 to take the position of full-time Auxiliary Researcher in the Associated Laboratory CICECO, and constitute a research group working on novel crystalline MOF structures and in the use X-ray crystallography to solve complex chemical problems.