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Christopher M.A. Brett obtained his B.A. degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1977, and his D.Phil. in Electrochemistry from Oxford University with Prof. John Albery in 1981.
In 1981 he was appointed to a Lectureship in Chemistry at Coimbra University. He was awarded the D.Sc. degree from the University of Coimbra in 2002. He is a member of CEMUC, Research Unit 285 of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

Director of the Laboratory of Electroanalysis and Corrosion, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra.
President of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) 2007-8, (Past President 2009-10; President-Elect 2005-6; Vice-President 2003-4).
President of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) 2006-7; Past President 2008-9, Vice-President, 2004-5, Titular Member, 2000-2003.
Associate Member of Green Chemistry Subcommittee 2002-11, Member of Committee on Chemical Education 2002-5. Electrochemistry Commission: Chairman 2000-2001, Secretary 1998-9, 1996-2001 Titular Member, 1994-5 Associate Member.
President of the Analytical Division of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ), 2003-5 and 1996-9,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and Chartered Chemist (CChem, FRSC).

Present research activity in national and international projects, from fundamental research through to applications in the environmental, food and health areas concerns:
- Novel electrode materials, nanostructured materials, surface–modified electrodes and conducting polymers
- Electrochemical enzyme biosensors
- Sensors for electroanalysis of trace species using flow and injection systems
- Metallic corrosion and its inhibition, dental amalgams in biological fluids,
- Electrochemistry in ionic liquids
- Kinetics and mechanism of electrode processes.
Further information on research

Author or co-author of more than 200 scientific articles and publications.
Co-editor of special issues of Electrochimica Acta (1998, 2004) Analytica Chimica Acta (1999), Pure and Applied Chemistry (2001), Analytical Letters (2004,2006) and Microchimica Acta (2008, 2010). At present member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the journals “Talanta”, “Bulletin of Electrochemistry” and “Analytical Letters”.

BOOKS

C.M.A. Brett and A.M. Oliveira Brett
Electrochemistry. Principles, methods and applications
Textbook, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 456 pages, June 1993. 2nd printing 1994, 3rd printing 1996, 4th printing 1998.

A.M. Oliveira Brett and C.M.A. Brett
Electroquímica. Princípios, métodos e aplicações
Translation published by Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, 496 pages, December 1996.

C.M.A. Brett and A.M. Oliveira Brett
Electroanalysis
Textbook, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 96 pages, October 1998.