Sarmento J. Mazivila was born on the 25th of September 1985 and grew up in Mozambique and after finishing high school in Maxixe his hometown, he moved to Maputo the Mozambican capital for his undergraduate studies, where in 2010 graduated in Chemistry Teaching at Department of Chemistry, Pedagogical University of Maputo. He then moved to Brazil, where in 2015 completed his Master's Degree in Chemistry with emphasis on Chemical Data Science, i.e., Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC) at Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU).He subsequently moved to Portugal, where in 2020 received his PhD Degree in Sustainable Chemistry (Green Chemistry) with emphasis on Chemical Data Science, i.e., CAC at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.During his PhD, he stayed for three months at Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Argentina, doing his PhD mobility under the guidance of a top leading chemometrician Full Professor Alejandro Cesar Olivieri.In early 2021, PhD Mazivila become a Portuguese Citizen (European Citizen) through naturalization after he had been living for 5 years in Portugal.PhD Mazivila has authored 21 (17 as first-author) original research articles and tutorial/review papers in highly ranked international peer-reviewed Journals, with an accumulated H-index of 11. He has been serving as a Reviewer of over 35 international journals, including Analytica Chimica Acta, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Analyst, Talanta, Fuel, Microchemical Journal, Analytical Methods as listed in Peer review summary available online at: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2104734.After completing his doctoral studies, he joined the LAQV REQUIMTE - the Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainable Chemistry as a Chemometrician Post-doctoral Scientist, working on two advanced research projects, namely: i) real-time monitoring with focus on process analytical chemistry (PAC) and process analytical technology (PAT), as can be seen in his authored relevant review paper titled: "A review on multivariate curve resolution applied to spectroscopic and chromatographic data acquired during the real-time monitoring of evolving multi-component processes: From process analytical chemistry (PAC) to process analytical technology (PAT)" doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2022.116698, which has been published in TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry (the most highly regarded and highest-ranked journal directed to Analytical Chemistry); ii) multi-way data processing of excitation-emission fluorescence matrices acquired from semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) sensing platforms, as can be seen in his authored relevant tutorial article with a following reference: A tutorial on multi-way data processing of excitation-emission fluorescence matrices acquired from semiconductor quantum dots sensing platforms, Analytica Chimica Acta 1211 (2022) 339216, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2021.339216. The lately referenced tutorial paper has been selected as an Outside Front Cover, which is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-2670(22)00518-9.He recently joined the Division 1.4 - Process Analytical Technology at BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany as a Chemometrician/PAT Post-doctoral Fellow, where he has been adapting a quality-by-design (QbD) approach through continuous process verification in integrated unit operations that significantly benefits the so-called 'real-time release testing' at Lab scale operating in a batch mode and integrated continuous mode, applying advanced chemometric analysis of process data acquired by cutting-edge analytical techniques (in- and on-line probes) for probing the effect of critical process parameters (CPPs) on monitored intermediate critical attributes.
