People

Ana Isabel Machado Mouquinho

Ana Isabel Machado Mouquinho

Researcher

In 2019, Ana completed her PhD in Sustainable Chemistry at FCT/UNL. During her PhD thesis, she developed a multidisciplinary work, covering areas such as organic synthesis and materials science.

From April 2018 to October 2019 she was also involved in a parallel project with the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), in which she developed the green synthesis of cork-templated ceria and polymer-replicated foams for solar thermochemical hydrogen production via two-step water-splitting cycles.

António Miguel Teixeira Vicente

António Miguel Teixeira Vicente

Researcher

António T. Vicente holds a B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and received his PhD in 2017 for his work on silicon thin film solar cells on paper-based substrates with applications in optoelectronic biodevices. His doctorate work led to the first reported fabrication of silicon thin film solar cells on common paper-based products, which opened new avenues in this field towards intelligent and sustainable biodevices and received two national awards.

Daniela da Silva Nunes Gomes

Daniela da Silva Nunes Gomes

Researcher

Daniela Gomes (born 1983) received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2012, in Materials Engineering, with the dissertation “Carbon dispersions in nanostructured metals”. The degree was obtained with merit. Since 2013, she became a Post-doctoral researcher at the CENIMAT/i3N of FCT-UNL. The post-doctoral work is entitled “Design of new functional materials for electronics applications”, which is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the scholarship 84215/2012.

Ghulam Abbas

Ghulam Abbas

Fellow

I am Ghulam Abbas, currently working as a research fellow at Materials Science Department of Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon on the c- Silicon/Perovskite based high efficiency tandem solar cells research project. Previously, I have done master’s in Physics from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan with distinction. My master’s degree project was “structural and dielectric properties of Fe2O3 nano particle added CuTl-1223 nano-superconductor composites”.

Guilherme António Nabiça Ribeiro

Guilherme António Nabiça Ribeiro

Researcher

Received Msc Degree in 2020 with a thesis in Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering in 2019 the thesis “Thin-film tandem solar cells based on Perovskite-Si: development of interlayer for 4-terminal device configuration”.

Currently working on Perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar and fabrication of colloidal quantum-dot intermediate band solar cells (CQD-IBSCs) based in perovskite host materials.

Part of “Lab-on-Paper goes Suborbital” team, helping in electromechanical systems design and device fabrication.

Hugo Manuel Brito Águas

Hugo Manuel Brito Águas

Principal Investigator

Hugo Águas is Associate Professor at the Materials Science Department of FCT-NOVA and photovoltaics research group leader at CEMOP-UNINOVA. He received his PhD in 2005 in Optoelectronics Engineering. His current research interests are in the fields of thin films deposition and silicon materials for photovoltaic devices and optical sensors; nanomaterials processing; biosensors; microfluidics and SERS.

Iñigo Ramiro González

Iñigo Ramiro González

Researcher

Nanostructured photovoltaics and high-efficiency photovoltaic concepts.

Jenny Luis Nhaliguangue Boane

Jenny Luis Nhaliguangue Boane

Researcher

  • 2016/2017 – New University of Lisbon– Faculty of Science and Technology: PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering (in progress). 
  • 2015 – Federal University of Lavras – Brazil: Masters in Physics with area of concentration in Condensed Matter Physics. 
  • 2010 – Eduardo Mondlane University– Mozambique: Degree in Educational Physics.


João Afonso da Cruz Correia Proença Mendes

João Afonso da Cruz Correia Proença Mendes

Fellow

João Afonso Mendes is currently a Research Fellow working on the FlexSolar project, which aims to create high efficiency flexible solar cells using a tandem of perovskite thin films and epitaxial silicon. He is also finishing his Master thesis for the degree in Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering, under the title “Silicon nanoparticles synthesized by PECVD for solar cell and TFT applications”, at the Department of Materials Science of NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT-NOVA), as well as the laboratory facilities of i3N|CENIMAT and CEMOP/UNINOVA.

Joaquim Fernando Monteiro de Carvalho Pratas Leitão

Joaquim Fernando Monteiro de Carvalho Pratas Leitão

Researcher

I am Assistant Professor with Habilitation (Agregação) at the Department of Physics, University of Aveiro (with definitive appointment since 2005). I obtained the Licenciatura degree (1987) in Physics at the University of Coimbra and the PhD degree (2000) and the Habilitation title (2022) at the University of Aveiro. Since 2021, I am the Director of the Doctoral Program in Nanosaciences and Nanotechnology at the University of Aveiro.

Luís Miguel Rino Cerveira da Silva

Luís Miguel Rino Cerveira da Silva

Researcher

Luís Rino da Silva is Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics of Universiade de Aveiro (UA). He is also Director of the Master's degree in Physical Engineering and member of the Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication (i3N)

His research interests are: 

Manuel João de Moura Dias Mendes

Manuel João de Moura Dias Mendes

Co-Principal Investigator

Prof. Manuel J. Mendes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1982. He received the Engineering degree in Physics in 2005 from Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. de Lisboa (IST-UL), the Master of Science degree in Applied Physics in 2008 from Rice University (Houston, USA), and the Ph.D. in Photovoltaic Solar Energy in 2012 from Instituto de Energía Solar (Madrid, Spain) on the novel topic of Nanophotonics for Multi-Band Photovoltaics. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Materials Science Department of FCT-NOVA.

Maria Beatriz Candeias

Maria Beatriz Candeias

Fellow

I finished the Integrated Master in Engineering Physics at the University of Aveiro. For the last three years I have dedicated myself to research in the field of solar cells.

I'm always looking for new challenges and experiences that change my life, opportunities that enhance my skills.

Miguel Diogo Furtado Alexandre

Miguel Diogo Furtado Alexandre

Researcher

My main areas of interest are renewable energies, with special interest in photovoltaics, area focused in my current research. In addition, I also have interests in Quantum Mechanics and Electromagnetism. I ingressed in the Integrated Master's Degree in Micro and Nanotechnology in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where I ultimately received my Degree in Engineering of Micro and Nanotechnology in 2018.

Paulo Sérgio Lopes Manteigas

Paulo Sérgio Lopes Manteigas

Support Staff

He is currently the Coordinator of the Project Management Office at CENIMATi3N at FCT NOVA, which is a national research center classified as Exceptional by the FCT, with international recognition.

Facilitates communication and bridges between the various institutions and services existing on the FCT Campus, as well as with institutions external to FCT NOVA and with the 11 organizational units that make up Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), and the researchers that integrate CENIMATi3N .