Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

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Joana Neto, a biomedical engineer, with experience in different projects has been assembling knowledge and insight from a wide range of disciplines - Materials Science, Neuroscience, Micro and Nanotechnology, and (bio)Sensors. In 2010 Joana P Neto concluded her M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineer from FCT-UNL in Portugal. Her master thesis developed within the scope of applying new materials to healthcare applications was awarded by European Materials Society. In 2012 Joana was awarded with a PhD scholarship from FCT with the project entitled Materials and neuroscience: validating tools for large-scale, high density neural recording developed at CENIMAT/i3N, Champalimaud Foundation and University College of London. Since 2019, she has been a Pos-doctoral researcher at CENIMAT|I3N working on a microfluidic device for cancer detection from free circulating DNA using Digital PCR. She is author of 10 publications, H-index=8 with more than 400 citations. During her career, the dissemination of the work was achieved through conferences and publications, participation on outreach activities, teaching undergrads and PhD students, and supervising and mentoring undergrads and master students. Moreover, a great amount of her data was made freely available online to ensure transparency of results and to help to reduce inequality. Research Interests: • Biomedical engineering • Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials • Neurotechnology • Neuroscience • Sensors and Biossensores • Microfabricaton and Microfluidics