Ana Rita C. Duarte

Name: Ana Rita C. Duarte

Place and date of birth: Lisbon, 26^th December 1978

Researcher ID: B-9640-2011; Scopus author ID: 7102601957

Education

2014 – MSc in Polymer Science and Technology, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

2006 – PhD in Chemical Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2002 – Degree in Chemical Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Research experience

10/2010 – present – Associate Professor at Departamento de Quimica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

08/2013 – 09/2017 – Associate Researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

01/2014 – 07/2014 – Fulbright Scholar - Visiting scientist at Dep. of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

09/2007 – 07-2013 – Post-Doc Researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

07/2006 – 06/2007 – Senior Researcher at Techniche Universiteit Delft, Netherlands

01/2003 – 06/2006 – PhD student at ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Short stays (less than 3 months)

- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Dopping Analysis, Centro de Medicina Desportiva, Portugal

- Laboratory of Thermodynamics and Separation Processes, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

- Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Matériaux et des Hautes Pressions, Université Paris Nord, France

- Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

- Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands

- Laboratorio di Fluidi Supercritici, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

Fellowships and Awards

2016 – HydrUStent Distinction - Road 2 WebSummit

2016 – BluePharma | University of Coimbra Innovation Award – Honorable Mention – HydrUStent

2016 – TERMIS-EU Business Plan Competition – People’s Choice Award

2015 – Novo Banco Innovation Award – Grand Prize Award - HydrUStent

2014 – FCT Associate Researcher IF/00680/2014

2014 – Outreach Lecturer Fund travel award – Fulbright commission

2013 – Fulbright Scholar Program - Advanced Research and University Lecturing Award in the USA

2012 – FLAD – travel award to participate in the 10th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids

2007 – Best Thesis Award – International Society for Advancement on Supercritical Fluids (ISASF)

2007 – FCT Post-Doctoral grant SFRH/BPD/34944/2007

2005 - FLAD – travel award to participate in the 7th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids

2002 – FCT doctoral grant SFRH/BD/10780/2002

Supervising of undergraduate/graduate students

2016 – present – Filipa Santos, Ph.D. student at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (supervisor)

2016 – 2017– Vânia Castro, junior researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho

2016 – Marta Salgado, PhD student at University of Valladollid (supervisor of international work program)

2014-2016 – Sofia Caridade, Post-Doc researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Univ. do Minho (supervisor)

2014-2018 - Alexandre Barros, Ph.D. student at 3B’s Research Group, Univ. do Minho (supervisor)

2012 – 2015 – Rita Craveiro, Ph.D. student at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (co-supervisor)

2014 – João Silva, junior researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho

2012 – 2014 - Marta Martins, junior researcher at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho

Tutoring of undergraduate students

- Nuno Sousa, Yu Yan at 3B’s Research Group, Universidade do Minho

- Carlos Cravo, Carlos Martins, Patricia Coimbra, Susana Santiago at ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Comittees

2016 – PhD defense of Cristina Jimenez, University of Valladollid

2016 - Master defense of Ana Roda, ITQB - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2016 – External Evaluator of PhD thesis of Vanessa Gonçalves, University of Valladolid

2016 - PhD defense of Patricia Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2015 – PhD defense of Silvia Rebocho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2014 – Master defense of Francisca Mano, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2013 – PhD defense of Marta Fraille, University of Valladollid

2013 - Master defense of Ana Cristina O. Correia, Universidade do Minho

2013 – Master defense of Cristina Vanessa Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2011 – Master defense of Vasco Bessa Peixoto Bernardo, Universidade do Minho

2011 – Master defense of Maria José Lima, Universidade do Minho

Organization of scientific meetings

2017 – 16^th EMSF – European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids – Host committee, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 – 4th TERMIS world congress – Symposium organizer and chair: “Green Technologies for the preparation of enhanced biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine”

2015 – Member of the scientific commission – Iberoamerican Meeting on Ionic Liquids, Madrid, Spain

2014 - Member of the local organizing committee – TERMSTEM 2014 – Porto, Portugal

2014 – Member of the local organizing committee - Polaris 2^nd workshop, Top-down fabrication and nanocharacterization techniques to develop nanosystems for biomedical applications, Porto, Portugal

2013 – Member of the local organizing committee – TERMSTEM 2013 – Porto, Portugal

2013 – Member of the local organizing committee - Polaris 1st workshop, Nanosystems for medicine: fundamentals, synthesis and applications, Porto, Portugal

2011 – Member of the local organizing committee - ESAO-IFAO joint meeting, Porto

2010 – Guest Editor – The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, special issue Supercritical Fluid Processing of Biopolymers and Biomedical devices

2009 – Member of the organizing committee - Workshop supercritical fluid processing of biopolymers and biomedical devices, Funchal, Portugal

2009 – Editor e-book – “Current Trends in Supercritical Fluid Technology in Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical and Food processing Industries”, Bentham Publishers

2008 – Member of the local organizing committee - Termis- EU 2008 Annual Meeting, Porto, Portugal

2005 – Member of the organizing committee - Supermat Seminar, Lisboa, Portugal

Memberships of scientific organizations

2014 – present - Society for Biomaterials

2012 – present - International Society for Advancement on Supercritical Fluids

Major collaborations

-   Prof. Dr. Irina Smirnova, Germany, Hamburg-Harburg University of Technology

- Prof. Dr. Concepcion Domingo, Spain, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona - CSIC

-   Prof. Dr. Maria José Cocero, Spain, University of Valladolid

-   Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Badens, France, Lab. de Modelisation, Mecanique et Procedes Propres, CNRS

-   Prof. Dr. Sona Raessi, Iran, Shiraz University