Ana R.R.P. Almeida is a Researcher at Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. She graduated in Biochemistry (2001) and received her MSc (2004) and her PhD (2013, approved with distinction) both in chemistry, from the University of Porto. Her research interests include the study of the volatility, phase transitions and intermolecular interactions of organic compounds. She is mainly focused on experimental measurements of vapor pressures of organic compounds (solids and liquids with pharmacological interest and/or with pesticide activity) and the determination of their enthalpies, entropies and Gibbs energies of sublimation, vaporization and fusion. More recently, she has been very interested in the development of user-friendly methods for predicting several physico-chemical properties of organic compounds, with important applications in predicting their environmental mobility: sublimation and vaporization vapor pressures, Gibbs energy of hydration, aqueous solubility, Henry constants and octanol-water partition coefficients. The determination of energies of intermolecular hydrogen bonds O-H...O, N-H...N and N-H...O in organic crystalline compounds and the evaluation of the thermodynamic stability of chemical compounds has also been the subject of her study.
