PhD. Students

Carlos Costa

Carlos Costa

PhD Student

About me

I aim to employ, to the best of my ability, my knowledge and soft skills in cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and nanotechnology, acquired during both my Bachelor and Master degrees, in a multidisciplinary approach towards developing novel biomimetic affinity reagents targeting the current pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, potentially facilitating diagnosis and vaccine production, whilst also gaining experience in bioengineering and bioseparations.

Gonçalo Teixeira

Gonçalo Teixeira

PhD Student




About me

Gonçalo Teixeira is a PhD Student in Bioengineering Systems from the MIT Portugal PhD program, FCT NOVA. Currently, he is working in engineered proteins for gas sensing, namely odorant-binding proteins from mammalians and invertebrates.

Henrique Costa

Henrique Costa

PhD student

Current Position

PhD Student in Biotechnology at FCT-NOVA. Project title: “Site-specific functionalized biomembranes for the purification of biopharmaceutical compounds”

His PhD project is focused on the development of novel biomaterials to be used as sustainable alternatives in downstream processing applications. 


Research Project

PURE project

 

Iana Lychko

Iana Lychko

PhD student

About me

Iana Lychko's main research interests are in the fields of Protein Engineering and Biomaterials. Currently, she is developing a new class of protein-based biomaterials for gas-sensing to control fish freshness. This work is within the Sea2See project which aims to explore the potential of cephalopode specific proteins called reflectins and their derivatives to form stimuli-responsive biomaterial. 

Inês Padrão

Inês Padrão

PhD Student

UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal Gab 523

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Current Position

PhD Student in Biotechnolgy

Project title: "Development of bio-based and sustainable materials from polar cephalopods"

Research Project

Sea2See Project


Former Positions

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021: Research Fellow in the ACCuseD project (PTDC/SAL-SER/30388/2017) in collaboration with UCIBIO-Porto.

Set 2018 – Nov 2019: MSC Student in the Sea2See project (PTDC/BII-BIO/28878/2017).

Manuel Matos

Manuel Matos

PhD. Student

Manuel Matos is a Biochemist with complementary expertise in Biotechnology, namely in bioengineering of affinity ligands. He completed his MSc in Biotechnology in 2015 at FCT-NOVA (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and his BSc in Biochemistry in 2013 at FCT-UC (Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra).


Rita Oliveira

Rita Oliveira

PhD Student

Departamento de Química

REQUIMTE/CQFB

Lab 523

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Current Position

PhD Student from the MIT-Portugal Bioengineering Systems (FCT-NOVA)

Research Project


Hybrid Gels for Rapid Microbial Detection (SCENT)