Current research interests

Electrochemistry applied to biological systems, namely enzymes and other metalloproteins; Electronic transfer kinetics studies, enzyme/electrode interface studies, electrocatalysis; Biosensors; Biofilms electroactivity; New hydrogel conducting materials based on Ionic Liquids; Conducting polymers;
Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM); Nanopatterned systems based on electron transfer proteins (mineral core);

Projects as PI

PI: Cristina Cordas

Recent projects as team member

Project Oxymod (Optimized oxidative enzyme systems for efficient conversion of lignocellulose to valuable products), Projecto: 269408/O70 (Oxymod), [PI from Norway, Vincent Eijsink], 2018-2022, LAQV-REQUIMTE, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Project "Bioelectrochemical system for CO2 mitigation", (PTDC/BTA-BTA/0935/2020,PI José MOura, 2021-2023) LAQV, REQUIMTE, Nova School of Science and Tecnology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Former projects

Project "Redox-BioMaterials: Design of new redox biomaterials and their application in Biofuel cells for the production of electrical energy, feedstock chemicals and building blocks", PTDC/EBB-EBI/099237/2008, IBB/IST team and currently as member of Requimte at FCT/UNL (IST-UTL and FCT-UNL).

Electrochemical control of biofilm-forming micro-organisms: screening, identification, and design of new knowledge based technologies” (EA-Biofilms)

PI: José Moura (Portugal team)

Project “Electrochemical control of biofilm-forming micro-organisms: screening, identification, and design of new knowledge based technologies” (EA-Biofilms), NEST-508866, Departamento de Química, CQFB, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL).

http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/74718_en.html

The two terminal enzymes of denitrification - Nitric oxide reductase and nitrous oxide reductase

PI: Isabel Moura

Project “The two terminal enzymes of denitrification - Nitric oxide reductase and nitrous oxide reductase”, PTDC/QUI/64638/2006, Departamento de Química, CQFB, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL).

Dynamic Electrochemical Studies in Electron Transfer Proteins

PI: José Moura

Project “Dynamic Electrochemical Studies in Electron Transfer Proteins", POCTI/QUI/42277/2002, Departamento de Química, CQFB, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL).

Chemistry of CoCorrinoid and Metallo Porphynoid Layers on Electrodes

PI: Luísa Abrantes

Project “Chemistry of CoCorrinoid and Metallo Porphynoid Layers on Electrodes”, program COST D 15 Action “Interfacial Chemistry and Catalysis”, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL).

Vitamin B12 and Metalloporphyrins Derivatives: Electrochemistry of Self-assembled and Electropolymerised Layers

PI: Luísa Abrantes

Project “Vitamin B12 and Metalloporphyrins Derivatives: Electrochemistry of Self-assembled and Electropolymerised Layers” (included in the Project COST D 15 Action “Interfacial Chemistry and Catalysis”), Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL).

Four papers accepted for publication at INForum 2013

The papers "Uma abordagem alto nível ao controlo de concorrência componível centrado nos dados", "Esqueletos Algorítmicos para Paralelismo de Tarefas em Sistemas Multi-GPU", "Replicação Parcial com Memória Transacional Distribuída",  and "Uma Abordagem Sistema para o Paralelismo Hierárquico em Sistemas Multi-core", reporting the ongoing work of my Master students Daniel Parreira, Fernando Alexandre, João André Silva and Nuno Delgado have been accepted as a full papers for publication at 

Article accepted for publication in the JCSS journal

The article "Heterogeneous Computing with Single Operation Multiple Data", an extended version of the paper presented at the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing & Communication (HPCC 2012), has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

MSc thesis "On the Cloud Deployment of a Session Abstraction for Service-Data Aggregation"

João Domingos has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled On the Cloud Deployment of a Session Abstraction for Service/Data Aggregation supervised by Prof. Maria Cecília Gomes and co-supervised by myself. 

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Paper accepted for publication at Euro-Par 2013

Paper Algorithmic Skeleton Framework for the Orchestration of GPU Computations has been accepted for publication at the 19th European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2013) to be held in Aachen, Germany, from August 26 to August 30. The acceptance rate was about 26.8%.