Pedro Almeida Associate Professor with Habilitation email: pla@fct.unl.pt Ciência Vitae Scopus
Research Interests: Complex Fluids, Solid State NMR, MRI, Rheo-NMR, Liquid crystals, liquid crystal applications.

Short CV

Pedro Maia Marques de Almeida, is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Lisbon Superior Institute of Engineering. He is a full member of the Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group (SBMG) of the Research Centre in Materials Science (CENIMAT/I3N) in Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon (FCT/NOVA). 

He has a PhD and a graduation both in Materials Science and Engineering from NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the International Liquid Crystal Society and he is the Secretary of the Portuguese Liquid Crystal Society. 

His main research lines are Polymeric and Mesomorphic materials. Complex fluids. Solid State NMR, including MAS, Diffusion, MRI and Rheo-NMR. Liquid crystals, and liquid crystal applications.  

He has participated in several research National and International projects, 2 of them (National) as Coordinator (2015: PTDC/FIS-NAN/0117/2014 “Microfluidics Liquid Crystal Based Bifuncional Bacterial Infeccion Sensor”; and 2010: PTDC/FIS/110132/2009 “New functional materials obtained from cellulosic micro and nano fibers”). He is a reviewer for several Scientific Journals with high impact factor such as Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials. 

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