Education:

on going - PhD "Ionic Liquid Crystals as Multi-stimuli Versatile Functional Materials" in Sustainable Chemistry @ NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT-UNL)

2015 - Master's Degree in Biotechnology @ NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT-UNL)
2013 - Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry @ NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT-UNL)



Positions:

October 2017 – on going | Thesis (PhD in Sustainable Chemistry) @ REQUIMTE-LAQV, FCT-UNL, Portugal
January 2016 – May 2016 | Internship (Erasmus+ programme) @ Department of Chemistry, Britannia House - King's College London, United Kingdom
May 2014 – October 2015 | Thesis (Master's Degree in Biotechnology) @ REQUIMTE-LAQV, FCT-UNL, Portugal
March 2015 – April 2015 | Engineer's Assistant @ UMET (CNRS, UMR 8207) @ Université de Lille, France
February 2012 – July 2012 | Final Project (Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry) @ REQUIMTE-LAQV, FCT-UNL, Portugal



Research Interests:

Ionic Liquids, Liquid Crystals, Sustainable Chemistry, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Polarized Optical Microscopy (POM)



Recent Publications:

2019 - "The axial/equatorial conformational landscape and intramolecular dispersion: new insights from the rotational spectra of monoterpenoids"; D Loru, A Vigorito, AFM Santos, J Tang, ME Sanz; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (47); pp. 26111-26116.

2018 - "Bulk dynamics of the thermoresponsive random copolymer of di (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (MEO2MA) and oligo (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (OEGMA)"; AC Santos, AFM Santos, HP Diogo, SPC Alves, JPS Farinha, NT Correia, M Dionísio, MT Viciosa; Polymer 148; pp. 339-350.

2016 - "Accessing the physical state and molecular mobility of naproxen confined to nanoporous silica matrixes"; T Cordeiro, AFM Santos, G Nunes, G Cunha, JC Sotomayor, IM Fonseca, F Danede, CJ Dias, MM Cardoso, NT Correia, MT Viciosa, M Dionísio; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (26); pp. 14390-14401.