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Vasco Bonifacio was born in Luanda (Angola). He studied Chemical Engineering (1992-1995) at ISEL/IPL and Applied Chemistry - Organic Chemistry (1995-1997) at FCT/UNL in Lisbon (Portugal).

In 1997 he received a Young Research fellowship award and joined the research group of Prof. Antonio Macanita at the ITQB/UNL Research Institute in Oeiras (Portugal), under the project "Development of Light Activated Pesticides" till 2000.

In the end of 2001, he received a PhD fellowship award and joined the Lobo-Prabhakar research group at FCT/UNL in Lisbon (Portugal), under the project  "Preparation of Chiral Aziridines of Synthetic Utility" till 2005, and obtained is PhD in 2006 with the thesis "Asymmetric Synthesis of N-Sulphinyl Aziridines".

In 2006 he received a Post-doc fellowship award and joined Prof. Jorge Morgado research group at IST/UTL in Lisbon (Portugal) as a post-doc. In January 2007 he joined Prof. Ullrich Scherf research group at Institut fur Polymertechnologie (Germany) as a post-doc (collaboration with IST/UTL). The research was focused in the synthesis of organic semicondutor materials for various application fields including organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), and chemical sensors.

In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Researcher of MIT Portugal Program- Bio-Engineering Systems Focus Area - in the Polymer Synthesis and Processing in scCO2 Group at REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department of FCT/UNL in Lisbon (Portugal).

In 2009 he was awarded with the project "Just in Time Dendrimers" as Principal Investigator (funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology -FCT: 102 000 euros, overall rating: excellent, 95%).

His interests are asymmetric synthesis, organocatalysis, molecular electronics and green chemistry. Currently his actual research is focused in polymer synthesis and materials processing using supercritical carbon dioxide, development of biomaterials for drug and gene delivery and cell and tissue engineering.

Member of the Portuguese Chemical Society since 1997.

He is (or has been) requested to be referee of Wiley-VCH and Elsevier publications.

Founder of the Bio-Engineering Systems group of the ResearchGATE scientific network.

Chemistry Family Tree.

Vasco Bonifacio, PhD

  vasco.bonifacio@dq.fct.unl.pt

Chemistry Department

Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia      
Universidade Nova de Lisboa               
2829-516 Caparica
Portugal
+351 21 294 8300 x 10913 (office) x 10942 (laboratory 510)

+351 21 294 8550

last update 06.02.2010