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Participation in projects:

 

 

11. RIPD/APD/109547/2009: CHEM4ALL – ICT tools for teaching chemistry to blinds and visually impaired students

      Investigator

 

10. PTDC/CTM/099452/2008: Just in time dendrimers

      Principal Investigator

 

 9. PTDC/QUI-QUI/102460/2008: Development of molecular recognition-based materials using supercritical fluid  technology. Application to chromatography, catalysis and extraction.

    Investigator

 

 8. MIT-Pt/BS-CTRM/0051/2008: Smart small-scale devices: systems for controlled delivery of bioactive molecules, cell expansion and for sensing cell environment.

    Investigator

 

 7. PTDC/CTM/70513/2006:  BIOPOL on-off - Production of switchable biopolymer based release devices

Keywords: biopolymers, porous structures, controled delivery devices, supercritical CO2.

    Collaborator

 

 6. PTDC/QUI/73939/2006:  ActivPOL - Development of oxazoline and aziridine-based antimicrobial polymers using supercritical carbon dioxide technology

Keywords: polyoxazolines, polyaziridines, antimicrobial activity, supercritical CO2.

    Collaborator

 

 5. PTDC/FIS/72831/2006:  UNIME - Unimolecular Electronics

Keywords: molecular wires, molecular rectifier, molecular electronics, self-assembled structures

    Former Investigator

 

 4. POCI/CTM/64127/2006: ARCOCELL - Specially Designed Materials and Architectures for Organic Photovoltaic Cells

    Keywords: synthesis, polyfluorenes, organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs)

    Former Investigator

 

 3. POCTI/CTM/58767/2004: Photovoltaic cells based on conducting polymers and anthocyanins

Keywords: synthesis, anthocyanins, double-cable, photovoltaics

    Former Collaborator

 

2. POCTI/QUI/37373/2001 - Preparation of chiral aziridines of synthetic utility

    Keywords: synthesis, catalysis, mechanisms, enantioselectivity

    Former Investigator

 

1. PRAXIS XXI/2/2.1/QUI/324/94 - Development of Light Activated Pesticides

    Keywords: synthesis, photochemistry, photophysics, kinetics, mechanisms

    Former Investigator

 
 

 

 

Scientific Activity:

 

 

 

2008 Jul - present    FCT - Portugal

Assistant Researcher in a collaborative MIT-Portugal Program project between Prof. Paula Hammond (MIT), Prof. Linda Griffith (MIT), and Prof Ana A. Ricardo (FCT-UNL, Portugal). Presently, the research work is being developed at the Polymer Synthesis and Processing in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide research group at REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department of FCT-UNL.

 


 

2006 Nov - 2008 June    IST - Portugal

Post-doc (Devices, Photochemistry and Photophysics) at Centro Estrutural de Quimica Estrutural - Departamento de Engenharia Quimica e Biologica of IST/UTL (Portugal), in the group of Prof. Jorge Morgado.

 

2006 Nov - 2008 June    ITN - Portugal

Post-doc (Organic Synthesis) at the Chemistry Unit of Instituto Tecnologia Nuclear ITN (Portugal), in in the group of Prof. Jorge Morgado and in collaboration  with Dr. Ana Charas.

 

 

 

2007 Nov - 2008 Apr    IFP - Germany

2007 Jan - 2007 Jul   

Post-doc at Institut fur Polymertechnologie - Bergische Universitat Wuppertal (Germany) in the group of Prof. Ullrich Scherf - collaboration with IST/UTL.

 

 

 

 

2001 Jul - 2005 Jun    FCT - Portugal
Researcher at REQUIMTE - FCT/UNL (Portugal) under the supervision of Prof. S. Prabhakar and Prof. Ana M. Lobo, working in the synthesis of chiral N-sulfinyl aziridines for the obtention of his PhD.

 

 

 

1997 Sep - 2000 May    ITQB - Portugal
Young Researcher at the Photophysics and Photochemistry Group at ITQB/UNL (Portugal) under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Macanita, working in the project Development of Light Activated Pesticides.

 

 

 

1996 Jan - Jun    FCT - Portugal
Trainee at the Chemistry Department of FCT/UNL (Portugal) under supervision of Prof. Joao Aires-de-Sousa, Prof. Ana M. Lobo and Prof. S. Prabhakar, working in the synthesis of chiral N-aryl aziridines.