Luis Santos has a degree in agro-industrial engineering, obtained at the Institute of Agronomy of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1986, and master in Plant Nutrition, Soil Fertility and Fertilization by the Institute of Agronomy of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1994.

Presently, he is a professor and researcher at theInstitutoPolitecnico de Braganca since 1988, on the food science, biotechnology and environment areas.