Last conferences attended: Gordon and ISOEN 2019

We have been busy traveling and participating in internatinal conferences this last month.

First Cecília Roque went together with Carina Esteves and Ana Pina to the Gordon Research Conference on "Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry" at Les Diablerets, Switerzland.


Expo FCT 2019, mais um ano a abrir as portas aos alunos do ensino secundário

Estivemos mais uma vez, no dia 24 de Abril, a participar na EXPO FCT 2019

Jornadas Património Geológico e Geoconservação

MineHeritage was present at “Jornadas do Geoconservação” in Braga, Portugal, from 2-3 May 2019. A 5-minute pitch explained what MineHeritage is all about and allowed for the establishment of a network of interested supporters of the project through cooperation and access to Historical Mining facilities.

https://geoheritage.wixsite.com/jornadas2019

PAHMIX at SETAC Annual Meeting 2019

Two posters will be presented at SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting 2019, being held at Helsinki from 26-30 May:

- Figueiredo, N., Matos, B., Diniz, M.S., Costa, M. H., Martins, M. Fish primary hepatocytes as a tool to assess the toxicity of complex mixtures of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. 

- Martins, M., Branco, V., Diniz, M.S., Carvalho, C., Costa, M.H. Effects of PAH mixtures over the glutathione system in HepG2 cells.

Dois terços dos grandes mamíferos de Portugal extinguiram-se no último milhão de anos

2019.05.14

Tese de Mestrado em Paleontologia mostra que dois terços dos grandes mamíferos de Portugal extinguiram-se no último milhão de anos

O declínio dos mamíferos no planeta já era conhecido mas um novo estudo da Universidade Nova de Lisboa mostra os números avassaladores em Portugal: quase metade dos mamíferos extinguiram-se e o número chega a dois terços para mamíferos de grande porte.

Des.solve in the ISGC 2019, La Rochelle, France

This week, Des.solve is also represented in the ISGC 2019 (International Symposium of Green Chemistry), which is being held in La Rochelle, France.

Des.solve in the PPEPPD 2019, Vancouver, Canada

Members of group Des.solve are in Vancouver, participating in the PPEPPD 2019 (International Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design), where they will present developed scientific work in the scope of the project.

Ana Rita Duarte in the S+ television channel

Ana Rita Duarte was invited by the S+ television channel  (channel exclusively dedicated to health) to talk about the application of Deep Eutectic Systems in tuberculosis.

You can see the full interview here:

Bolsa de Investigação-Mestre (M/F)

Encontra-se aberto concurso para a atribuição de uma Bolsa de Investigação - Mestre no âmbito do projeto “HIPERSLAB – Melhoria do Comportamento Estrutural de Lajes Fungiformes Sujeitas a Acções Horizontais Cíclicas e Sísmicas Através da Utilização Racional de Betões de Elevado Desempenho Reforçado com Fibras”, com a referência PTDC/ECI-EST/30511/2017. 

Scientific Publications

79 papers were published with an accumulated impact factor (IF) of 316 with a total number of citations of 3113 and an h-index of 34. 19 papers are ranked in the top 5 of the corresponding areas, 55 papers in the first 25% highest IF, Q1, 30 in the first 13% and 6 in the first 7%. 40 of the 79 papers were published as first author, 29 as corresponding author and 44 independently from the PhD supervisor.

Congratulations to Beatriz Santos that completed succefully her Master Degree

Last month, Beatriz Santos completed her Master's Degree in Chemical and Biochemistry Engineering with the thesis "Optimization of Sensing Materials for Gas Detection". In addition to Professor Cecília Roque, the jury was attended by Professor Mario Eusébio and Researcher Nídia Almeida.

IV Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal

Realiza-se nos próximos dias 10 e 11 de setembro de 2019 a IV Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, no Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto. O programa prevê:

- uma sessão plenária com palestra por Rob Hagendijk (University of Amsterdam);

- sessões temáticas de apresentações de comunicações submetidas;

- uma mesa-redonda multidisciplinar, integrando participações de investigadores dos estudos de ciência e tecnologia e das ciências da vida e da saúde;

1st phase of applications for the PhD research on Technology Assessment (2019-2023)

The applications for the PhD programme on TA are already open (1st phase, 2019-2023). The links to follow are:

Our last publication about 'Intelligent gelatin' has been in the media

Our new publication published in Materials Today this month was mentioned in several media news.

The paper showed that gelatin can be more than food. For the first time, it was shown an example of soft matter in artificial olfaction, where engineered gelatin materials combined with artificial intelligence tools were used to mimic the sense of olfaction.