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.

5.ª corrida solidária FaCiT NOVA

Já estão abertas as inscrições para mais uma corrida solidária da FACIT. 
Não percas tempo, e inscreve-te em https://corridafacit.sports4all.pt/ até agosto para aproveitares o preço promocional!

 

Cecília Roque and Manuel Matos at the ACS Meeting in Orlando, USA, April 2019

In April Cecília Roque and Manuel Matos crossed the Atlantic to attend the 257th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition: 'Chemistry for New Frontiers' in Orlando, USA.

Provas de Mestrado sobre Trilobites por Catarina Caprichoso

Paleontologia
Provas de Mestrado de Catarina Caprichoso Carvalho (http://ciuhct.academia.edu/CatarinaCaprichoso)
Dissertação: "Trilobites do Devónico de Portugal – uma Revisão"
Constituição do Júri:

Des.solve group in the media

The research developed by the group Des.solve, especially in the area of tuberculosis treatment, was disclosed in several portuguese communication media. Also, it was highlighted the event that is being organized by the group - 1st International Meeting on Deep Eutectic Systems.

Interview of Prof. Ana Rita Duarte in Rádio Horizonte

Tomorrow, 13th April, at two different times (12:45-13h and 17:45-18h), you can listen the interview of Prof. Ana Rita Duarte in Rádio Horizonte, in the context of the program “Science and Health”.

In this interview, the researcher talks about the advantages of Deep Eutectic Systems and highlights the occurence of the 1st International Meeting (Lisbon, 24-27th June 2019) exclusively dedicated to these systems, which is being organized by her research group Des.solve.

 You can listen to radio Horizonte at FM 92.8

Ph.D. thesis excellence award to Carolina Madeira

Carolina has just won a Ph.D. thesis excellent award from FCiências.ID (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa- FCUL), within the domain of Ciências da Terra e do Mar! The awarding ceremony will be held April 15th, at FCUL, in the Great Auditorium. We congratulate our colleague for her outstanding achievement!