mal.ferreira@campus.fct.unl.pt

Margarida Lourenço Ferreira is currently a PhD student in Sustainable Chemistry at FCT NOVA, exploring the field "Exploiting the Potential of Surface Active Ionic Liquids: Fluorinated Ionic Liquids Meet Biomolecules", where the main goal is to study the interactions between biocompatible FILs and biomolecules to have insights on the solubilisation and activation/deactivation mechanisms of biomolecules, in order to provide the ingredients needed to design feasible systems to be used in biopharmaceutical applications from drug delivery systems to the extraction of biomolecules. This project is financed through a PhD Scholarship granted by FCT MCTES. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Biology from University of Évora, and a Master's degree on Biochemistry for Health from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since September of 2015 she is been on our group developing work involved in the characterization of Fluorinated Ionic Liquids through modelling approaches such as molecular dynamic simulations and equations of state, as for instance soft-SAFT, being the first author of two publications.

Supervised by Ana B. Pereiro and co-supervised by João M. M. Araújo (FCT-NOVA) and Loudes F. Vega (The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.).