José Silva is currently an Auxiliary Researcher at Renewable Energy Chair at Universidade de Évora. Having as main expertise photovoltaics, he works mainly projects related to Agrivoltaics, Floating PV and PV integrated in built environment, namely the R4 approach.

José made is PhD at Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). He has worked as researcher in INSA-Lyon and PROMES-CNRS in France and at Instituto Dom Luiz in Portugal. He also taught several energy and sustainability related courses at FCUL and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa in Portugal, and Université Perpignan and Polytech Montpellier in France.