Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

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Associate Professor at the Materials Science Department of FCT-NOVA. He received his PhD in 2005 in Optoelectronics Engineering. He has coordinated 6 national projects and was responsible in several national and international projects, including the H2020 Project APOLO (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-RIA) aimed at developing photonic-enhanced flexible Perovskite solar cells for BIPV (https://project-apolo.eu/).

Was the main organizer of symposium K - Photonic materials and techniques for SERS and solar cell light trapping at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2016 and is gest Editor for several journals, such as PSSa (Wiley), Materials Letters (Elsevier) and Materials, Sensors and Micromachines (MDPI).

He holds a patent for Solar Tiles comprising the development of silicon thin film technology for direct application in ceramic tiles building elements, which was given the Innovation Award in Energy Live Expo in 2014. He has a publication record of more than 170 publications recorded by WoS. The number of citation times registered in the WoS is above 2800 and has an H-index of 29.

Research Interests:

• Thin films deposition by vaccum technology
• Solar cells, in particular thin film silicon solar cells, Perovskite solar cells and Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
• Optical sensors
• Microfluidics for Biossensores
• Nanomaterials for SERS applications