João Paulo Heitor Godinho Canejo, since 2013, is a post-doc researcher at the Materials Science Department at the New University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group (SBMG) of the Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon (FCT/NOVA), where he is the responsible for laboratory of the group

(https://www.cenimat.fct.unl.pt/people/joao-paulo-heitor-godinho-canejo).

He has a PhD and MSc degrees in Materials Science from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/NOVA University. He was a member of the organizing committee of the 6^th International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCEC 2011, held in Lisbon (Portugal) from 5^th to 7^th September 2011.

His research is focused on the production of micro/nano fibers using electrospinning, mainly of cellulose derivatives. In addition, he is interested in the deposition, and characterization of cellulose micro/nano fibers electrospun from the liquid crystalline phase. Using cellulose-based anisotropic phases he is much involved in the study of the formation of helical structures in the micro/nano scale.

João Canejo is also involved in the morphology and mechanical characterization of non-woven membranes, which can be used as filters.