Filippo Maria Rotatori e os dinossauros ornitópodes de Portugal em tese de Mestrado em Paleontologia

December 5, 2018

Defendeu a sua tese de Mestrado em Paleontologia, Filippo Maria Rotatori, com o título "Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal" na FCT-NOVA. A tese versou sobre a colecção de dinossauros ornitópodes do Jurássico Superior das colecções do Museu da Lourinhã.

Spin-off Des Solutio will make the cosmetic area more ecological

November 29, 2018

The recent spin-off Des Solutio resulted from the developed research on natural solvents, carried by the group of Professor Ana Rita Duarte and Doctor Alexandre Paiva. The company aims to develop safe and environmentally friendly products, based on Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES), which can replace other toxic organic solvents commonly used in the cosmetic area. NADES offer many benefits over those solvents, once they are entirely derived from natural compounds such as organic acids, amino acids and sugars, found in a wide range of plants.

The confusing story of the dinosaur Iguanodon and its lineage. Lecture with invited speaker José Manuel Gasca

November 27, 2018

We invite you for a lecture "The confusing story of the dinosaur Iguanodon and its lineage"  by José Manuel Gasca (Universidad de Zaragoza) on the December 4th, 2018 (11:00) at Auditório da Biblioteca FCT NOVA, integrated in the course Paleontology and Evolution of the Master in Paleontology. Open to the public.


Thesis defense: December 4th

November 27, 2018

Nome: Lic. Filippo Maria Rotatori
Título: Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal
Data das provas: 2018-12-04 Hora: 16.00
Local: SALA 3.30 – ED. IX

Constituição do Júri:
Presidente: Doutor Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Roque Legoinha, Prof. Auxiliar – FCT/UNL

Vogais: Doutor José Manuel Gasca Pérez, Investigador de Pós-doutoramento da Universidade de Saragoça, Espanha

Doutor Octávio João Madeira Mateus, Prof. Associado – FCT/UNL

Call: Research grant, Masters degree

November 26, 2018

Announcing a call for a research grant for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering (or a related field). 

The successful applicant will work on the iSkin2 project: improving skin regeneration through an improved Skin2 biosynthetic skin substitute.

Application from the 30th November until the 20th December 2018.

For more information: eracareers  portal

Brainstormig session to discuss new applications of DES, with the participation of a Post-Doc researcher from iMed.ULisboa

November 21, 2018

The Des.solve team invited a scientist from an external institution to a brainstorming session, in order to discuss new developments and applications for Deep Eutectic Solvents. The invited researcher was Liane Moura, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at iMed.ULisboa (Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Lisbon) and member of BioNanoScience group. Liane is focused on the development of nanovaccines and characterization of the immune modulatory effect in melanoma and breast cancer mouse models, and the possible application of DES as adjuvants in nanoparticle formation was discussed.

New publication in Journal of Chromatography A.

November 21, 2018

Human serum albumin (HSA) is an important biopharmaceutical agent that has the capacity to carry diverse molecules and increase their circulation half-life time, but also to function as a disease biomarker.

Different chromatographic and non-conventional approaches for its purification were explored by Raquel dos Santos together with Carina Figueiredo, Aline Viecinski, Ana Pina, Arménio Barbosa and Cecília Roque and are now published in the Journal of Chromatography A.

Thesis defense: Alexandre Guillaume and the Jurassic microvertebrates of Portugal

November 20, 2018

Alexandre Guillaume and the Jurassic microvertebrates of Portugal

Student Alexandre Guillaume, now master, defended his master's thesis on paleontology, on November 20th. His thesis was vertebrate microfossils form the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, as a result of a research conducted at FCT Nova University of Lisbon and Lourinhã Museum.

The candidate passed sucessfully with the classification of 19 values.

Thesis Defense: André Saleiro

November 20, 2018

Student André Saleiro, now master, defended his master's thesis on paleontology, on November 5th. His thesis was about the campaigns that have taken place in Wyoming (United States) for the collection of fossil dinosaur materials.

These expeditions were a collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History (New York, E. U.A.) and the FCT NOVA University of Lisbon, some of the material collected was prepared at the Lourinhã Museum.

Trends in Biotechnology journal cover

November 16, 2018


The cover of Trends in Biotechnology issue of December is out and it is a beautiful figure prepared by Arménio Barbosa together with Catarina Oliveira. 

ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting

November 14, 2018

Our two PhD students, Raquel Santos and Ana Carolina Pádua, presented their research work at the 9th ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting. The meeting held on 7-9th November, at ITQB, was organized by the PhD students to present and discuss their work amongst the scientific community.

Congratulations to our Master students

November 11, 2018


We could not be more proud in the last weeks. Five of our Master students finished successfully their MSc with their Master thesis viva. Congratulations to all for the great work, much effort and full dedication. Wishing all the best to your future challenges.

Cláudia Alves (Master in Biomedical Engineering) - Signal processing and automatic classification tools in the development of a new optp-electronic 

Global Memristor Market Demand 2018-2025 :

November 11, 2018

Unity Semiconductor Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments Inc

https://mrsnewsjournal.us/14526/global-memristor-market-demand-2018-2025-unity-semiconductor-corporation-hewlett-packard-texas-instruments-inc/

New people in the team

November 6, 2018

We are happy to welcome our recent lab members!

Emi Ramou is our new post-doc researcher, a physicist that comes from Greece and will help us in SCENT project.