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Sumita Goswami is a Materials Researcher (Specialization in polymeric materials and composites). She did her Master's in Physics in 2007 and obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Nanotechnology in 2014, both from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. After finishing her doctoral work, she joined the Department of Materials Science of FCT-UNL in Portugal as a research fellow and later joined the CENIMAT-i3N group (FCT-UNL) as a post-doctoral researcher to work on polymer-based device engineering. Presently, she is working as a Senior Researcher in Sensor Technology for a Co-LAB namely ALMASCIENCE in Portugal. She has more than 15 years of admirable research experience in the field of Materials Science and Nanotechnology with a demonstrated history of : -Development, processing, and functionalization of polymer and cellulose based materials and their composites. -Designing polymer and its composites for multifunctional applications like energy harvester, sensors, data storage, supercapacitor, TFT, electrorheology. -Developing and designing devices for sustainable green technology, projecting Zero E-Waste Challenge. -Wearable electronics and paper-based electronics. -Good understanding of materials, positive mental attitude, commitment to excellence, and demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, collaboration, and troubleshooting. She has published several papers including review articles in high-impact peer-reviewed ISI journals (e.g. Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Advanced Materials Technologies, Electrochimica Acta among others). She has a long-time involvement in reviewing research works for several eminent journal houses. Recently, she is also associated with the MDPI journal "Sustainability" for editing a special issue on "Sustainable Materials for Renewable Energy Applications". Besides, she is currently involved in mentoring and supervising master and Ph.D. students in both ALMASCIENCE and CENIMAT-i3N for several ongoing projects. Very recently, she has successfully completed an internal project in ALMASCIENCE on making advanced prototypes of energy-generating vibration sensors with eco-design as one of the main goals. Some of those prototypes were exhibited and demonstrated in European Researchers´Night 2021, 2023 (Lisbon), JORTEC 2022 (DCM, FCT-UNL), along with the CENIMAT-i3N group (one of ALMASCIENCE associates). Besides, she is always involved and takes active participation (as supervisor to the students or researchers who demonstrate in such events ) in popular scientific events like Cîencia Viva, FCT EXPO through which the science meets the society and students in general. She was one of the organizers for symposium on functional bio based materials in the Brazillian MRS in 2023. She was also organizer of the symposium on 3D biomaterials structures in the MRS 2024 (Germany). She is involved in currently patent search and writing for ALMASCIENCE with M-ERA NET project BRIGHT which is attributed to develop biofoams for energy harvesting and sensing applications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sumita Goswami

Citation names

  • Goswami, Sumita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1A16-A289-344E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9778-5702
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=en&user=-tz8v6sAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Researcher Id
J-5353-2013
Scopus Author Id
26534012100

Email addresses

  • sumita.ju@gmail.com (Professional)
  • sumita.goswami@almascience.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (351) 913548265 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Almascience, FCT-UNL, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Caparica, Portugal (Professional)
  • Praceta Graca Pina de Morais 3, 7Dt, 2855-585, Santa Marta do Pinhal, Seixal, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology - Nano-materials
  • Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering - Textiles
  • Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Bengali (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/06/08
Concluded
 Titularidade do grau de doutor (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2008/01/11 - 2014/09/16
Concluded
 Ph.D. (Materials Science and Nanotechnology) (Doctor of Philosophy)
Jadavpur University, India
"Investigation on the Electrical and Optical Properties of Polyaniline Nanostructures and Their Composites" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/08/12 - 2007/08/23
Concluded
 Master of Science (Physics) (Master)
Jadavpur University, India
"Identification of different phases of the given sample (Coral) & indexing the X-ray powder diffraction pattern (main phase) and to determine the particle size using the Scherrer equation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 First class
2002/08/12 - 2005/07/08
Concluded
 Bachelor of Science (Physics-Hons.) (Bachelor)
Jadavpur University, India
 First Class with Distinction
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/10/01 - 2020/03/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2013/09/09 - 2014/09/08 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/04/01 - Current Senior researcher Almascience, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - 2025/05/31 Cellulose based Bio-foam for Interactive Energy Harvester (BRIGHT)
M-ERA-NET3/0005/2021
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Dynamic CELLulosE structures with aCTIVE colour changing for photonic and security applications (CELLECTIVE)
PTDC/CTM-CTM/4653/2021
Researcher
Almascience, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2024/02/29 Papel Inteligente para sistemas de identificação - IDS-Paper Identification Smart Paper - IDS-Paper
PTDC/CTM-PAM/4241/2020
Researcher
Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2020/03 1D Nanofibre Electro-Optic Networks
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/685758/EU
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 PT Smart Retail - Portugal as a reference for the new generation of autonomous and intelligent retail (PRR)
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC645440011-00000062
Researcher
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. G. Ferreira, S. Goswami, S. Nandy, L. Pereira, R. Martins, E. Fortunato. "Self-powered Paper based on Mechano-responsive Charge Transfer Mechanism at Metal/Polymer Interface". Paper presented in Materials 2019, XIX Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and X International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  2. Goswami, Sumita. "Atomic forcemicrocopy:Impact on nanoscale charge-transport dynamics". Paper presented in 6th Dresden Nanoanalysis Symposium, 2018.
  3. Goswami, Sumita. "Biowaste-derived carbon functionalized with polyaniline: Recycling to multifunctional application’". Paper presented in E-MRS 2018 Spring Meeting, 2018.
  4. J. Santos-Garcia, S. Goswami, N. Calero, M. T. Cidade. "Electrorheological behaviour of suspensions of doped polyaniline nanofibers containing carbon nanoparticles dispersed in silicone oil". Paper presented in 11th Annual European Rheology Conference,Copenhagen, Denmark., 2017.
  5. T. R. Calmeiro, S. Goswami, S. Nandy, Rui Igreja, Rodrigo Martins and Elvira Fortunato. "Stress induced mechano-electrical writing/reading of a polymer film through atomic force microscopy based contact electrification". Paper presented in Euro AFM Forum,Geneva, Switzerland, 2016.
  6. Goswami, Sumita. "Electrorheological behavior of suspensions of camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) doped polyaniline nanofibers in silicone oil". Paper presented in Iberian Rheology Conference 2015-Challenges in rheology and product development, Coimbra, Portugal., 2015.
  7. S. Goswami, P. Gonçalves, M.T. Cidade. "Electrorheological behaviour of suspensions of polyaniline based nanostructures". Paper presented in 10th Annual European Rheology Conference, Nantes, France., 2015.
  8. S. Goswami, T. Brehm, S. Filonovich, M.T. Cidade. "Organic-inorganic hybrid of polyaniline-vanadium oxide nanocomposites and their electrorheological behavior". Paper presented in World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental and Materials Research, Busan, Korea, 2014.
  9. S. Goswami, S. Maiti, K.K. Chattopadhyay, M. K. Mitra. "Synthesis and characterization of flake-like polyaniline/vanadium oxide composite material and study of their field emission behavior". Paper presented in 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Kanpur, India, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Guilherme; Das, Shubham; Coelho, Guilherme; Silva, Rafael R.A.; Goswami, Sumita; Pereira, Rui N.; Pereira, Luís; et al. "Energy harvesting and movement tracking by polypyrrole functionalized textile for wearable IoT applications". Journal of Energy Chemistry 102 (2025): 230-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2024.10.028.
    10.1016/j.jechem.2024.10.028
  2. Ferreira, Guilherme; Das, Shubham; Rego, Alberto; Silva, Rafael R.A.; Gaspar, Diana; Goswami, Sumita; Pereira, Rui N.; et al. "Eco-designed recycled newspaper for energy harvesting and pressure sensor applications". Chemical Engineering Journal 480 (2024): 147995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.147995.
    10.1016/j.cej.2023.147995
  3. Manjakkal, Libu; Jain, Amrita; Nandy, Suman; Goswami, Sumita; Tiago Carvalho, José; Pereira, Luis; See, Chan H.; Pillai, Suresh C.; Hogg, Richard A.. "Sustainable electrochemical energy storage devices using natural bast fibres". Chemical Engineering Journal 465 (2023): 142845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142845.
    10.1016/j.cej.2023.142845
  4. Goswami, Sumita; Nandy, Suman; Fortunato, Elvira; Martins, Rodrigo. "Polyaniline and its composites engineering: A class of multifunctional smart energy materials". Journal of Solid State Chemistry 317 Part A (2022): 123679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123679.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123679
  5. Ferreira, Guilherme; Opinião, André; Das, Shubham; Goswami, Sumita; Pereira, Luís; Nandy, Suman; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira. "Smart IoT enabled interactive self-powered security tag designed with functionalized paper". Nano Energy 95 (2022): 107021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107021.
    Published • 10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107021
  6. Versaci, Daniele; Canale, Irene; Goswami, Sumita; Amici, Julia; Francia, Carlotta; Fortunato, Elvira; Martins, Rodrigo; Pereira, Luís; Bodoardo, Silvia. "Molybdenum disulfide/polyaniline interlayer for lithium polysulphide trapping in lithium-sulphur batteries". Journal of Power Sources 521 (2022): 230945. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230945.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.230945
  7. Suman Nandy; Sumita Goswami; Ana Carolina Marques; Diana Gaspar; Paul Grey; Inês Cunha; Daniela Nunes; et al. "Cellulose: A Contribution for the Zero e-Waste Challenge". Advanced Materials Technologies (2021):
    Accepted
  8. Martins, Rodrigo. "Paper for Multifunctional Applications". Video Proceedings of Advanced Materials 1 1 (2020): 2020-0801. http://dx.doi.org/10.5185/vpoam.2020.0801.
    10.5185/vpoam.2020.0801
  9. Ferreira, Guilherme; Goswami, Sumita; Nandy, Suman; Pereira, Luis; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira. "Touch-Interactive Flexible Sustainable Energy Harvester and Self-Powered Smart Card". Advanced Functional Materials 30 5 (2019): 1908994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908994.
    10.1002/adfm.201908994
  10. Goswami, Sumita. "Biowaste-derived carbon black applied to polyaniline-based high-performance supercapacitor microelectrodes: Sustainable materials for renewable energy applications". Electrochimica Acta (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2019.05.133.
    10.1016/j.electacta.2019.05.133
  11. Goswami, Sumita. "Human-motion interactive energy harvester based on polyaniline functionalized textile fibers following metal/polymer mechano-responsive charge transfer mechanism". Nano Energy (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.04.012.
    10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.04.012
  12. Goswami, Sumita. "Electrorheological behaviour of suspensions in silicone oil of doped polyaniline nanostructures containing carbon nanoparticles". Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1045389x18818776.
    10.1177/1045389x18818776
  13. Roman, C.; Garcia-Morales, M.; Goswami, S.; Marques, A. C.; Cidade, M. T.. "The electrorheological performance of polyaniline-based hybrid particles suspensions in silicone oil: influence of the dispersing medium viscosity". Smart Materials and Structures 27 7 (2018): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000433515200001&KeyUID=WOS:000433515200001.
    10.1088/1361-665X/aac245
  14. Goswami, Sumita. "“Electro-Typing” on a Carbon-Nanoparticles-Filled Polymeric Film using Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy". Advanced Materials (2017): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000418068700006&KeyUID=WOS:000418068700006.
    10.1002/adma.201703079
  15. Goswami, Sumita. "Electrorheological Behavior of Suspensions of Camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) doped polyaniline nanofibers in silicone oil". Physica Scripta (2017): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000403350700001&KeyUID=WOS:000403350700001.
    10.1088/1402-4896/aa70f7
  16. Goswami, Sumita. "Green Nanotechnology from Waste Carbon-Polyaniline Composite: Generation of Wavelength-Independent Multi-Band Photoluminescence for Sensitive Ion Detection". Advanced Sustainable Systems (2017): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000427112400009&KeyUID=WOS:000427112400009.
    10.1002/adsu.201700137
  17. Goswami, S.; Nandy, S.; Calmeiro, T.R.; Igreja, R.; Martins, R.; Fortunato, E.. "Stress Induced Mechano-electrical Writing-Reading of Polymer Film Powered by Contact Electrification Mechanism". Scientific Reports 6 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955283649&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/srep19514
  18. Goswami, S.; Brehm, T.; Filonovich, S.; Teresa Cidade, M.. "Electrorheological properties of polyaniline-vanadium oxide nanostructures suspended in silicone oil". Smart Materials and Structures 23 10 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907200716&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/105012
  19. Maity, S.; Goswami, S.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.; Bhardwaj, S; Shekhawat, MS; Suthar, B. "Enhanced Field Emission From Polyaniline Coated Amorphous Carbon Nanotubes". Proceeding of International Conference on Recent Trends in Applied Physics & Material Science (Ram 2013) 1536 (2013): 607-608.
    10.1063/1.4810373
  20. Goswami, S.; Maiti, U. N.; Maiti, S.; Mitra, M. K.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Polyaniline/Vanadium oxide composites: An effective control in morphology by varying reactant concentrations". Materials Chemistry and Physics 138 1 (2013): 319-326.
    10.1016/j.matchemphys.2012.11.063
  21. Maity, S.; Goswami, S.; Chattopadhyay, K.K.. "Amorphous carbon nanotube-polyaniline core-shell nanostructures for efficient cold cathode applications". RSC Advances 3 48 (2013): 26321-26327. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887930442&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1039/c3ra44517h
  22. Goswami, S.; Maiti, U. N.; Maiti, S.; Nandy, S.; Mitra, M. K.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Preparation of graphene-polyaniline composites by simple chemical procedure and its improved field emission properties". Carbon 49 7 (2011): 2245-2252.
    10.1016/j.carbon.2011.01.055
  23. Maiti, Uday N.; Maiti, Soumen; Goswami, Sumita; Sarkar, Debabrtata; Chattopadhyay, Kalyan K.. "Room temperature deposition of ultra sharp ZnO nanospike arrays on metallic, non-metallic and flexible carbon fabrics: Efficient field emitters". Crystengcomm 13 6 (2011): 1976-1983.
    10.1039/c0ce00618a
  24. Thapa, R.; Saha, B.; Goswami, S.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Study of field emission and dielectric properties of AlN films prepared by DC sputtering technique at different substrate temperatures". Indian Journal of Physics 84 10 (2010): 1347-1354.
    10.1007/s12648-010-0125-9
  25. Nandy, S.; Goswami, S.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Ultra smooth NiO thin films on flexible plastic (PET) substrate at room temperature by RF magnetron sputtering and effect of oxygen partial pressure on their properties". Applied Surface Science 256 10 (2010): 3142-3147.
    10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.11.088
  26. Goswami, S.; Mitra, M. K.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Enhanced field emission from polyaniline nano-porous thin films on PET substrate". Synthetic Metals 159 23-24 (2009): 2430-2436.
    10.1016/j.synthmet.2009.08.007
  27. Jana, S.; Goswami, S.; Nandy, S.; Chattopadhyay, K. K.. "Synthesis of tetrapod like PbS microcrystals by hydrothermal route and its optical characterization". Journal of Alloys and Compounds 481 1-2 (2009): 806-810.
    10.1016/j.jallcom.2009.03.110
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/26 Tuning the rheology of cellulose functional inks MSE Congress 2024
DGM (Darmstadt, Germany)
2023/11/29 Functional Paper for Self-powered Sustainable Digitalization 2023 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibition (Boston) Symposium: EN03-Biodegradable, Resorbable and Sustainable Materials
(Boston, United States)
2023/11/28 Conductive Polymers at The Nexus of Innovation: Empowering Nanogenerators and Smart Interactive Wearables 2023 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibition (Boston) Symposium: EN01-Energy Management Strategies for Real World Devices
(Hynes, Boston,, United States)
2023/02/23 Smart IoT Electronic Paper for Interactive Security Applications InnoLAE-Innovations in Large Area Electronics
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2022/09/27 Sustainable mechanical energy harvesters for smart cellulose based IoT applications 11th European School for Young Materials Scientists
2021/08/03 Be Green, Be Smart The 10th Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE 2021)
Pisarenko Institute for Problems of Strength, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
2020/06/21 COVID-19: A Lesson to Learn Two-day International Webinar on: “COVID 19: Impact, Preventive measures and Best Practices”
Department of Physics, Bhairab Ganguly College, Kolkata, India (Kolkata, India)
2020/06/06 Paper for Multifunctional Applications Advanced Materials Lecture Series 2020
International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM)
2019/07/09 “Smart Power Emerging Energy Device (SPEED)” National Science Summit (Ciência-2019)
Lisbon Congress Center (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06 A human-motion interactive wearable energy harvester 6th Nano Today Conference
Elsevier (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/04 Wearable, Integrated for Sustainable Energy: e-Cloth Materiais 2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/01/22 "Smart Power Emerging Energy Device (SPEED)" Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE-2019)
Genome Campus Conference Centre (Cambridge, United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
2018/06/29 Biowaste-derived carbon functionalized with polyaniline: Recycling to multifunctional applications 4th edition of Nanotech, France 2018 International Conference and Exhibition
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci (Paris, France)
2017/09/19 Electro-Nanoimprinting’ on polymer based film by AFM: Application to Data Storage Device EMRS Fall Meeting
Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/01/23 - 2021/02/19 Wearable Integrated Devices for Sustainable Energy: Self Powered e-Cloths
Supervisor of Guilherme Miguel Melo Coelho
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/26 - 2024/09/28 Co-organizer of a symposium named "3D Structural Design of Functional Materials for Smart Applications" area (symposium F10) in the MSE Congress 2024, Germany. (2024/09/26 - 2024/09/28)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. (DGM), Germany
2023/10/01 - 2023/10/05 Symposium (Eco-design Strategies of Bio-Polymeric/Nanocellulose Materials: from fundamental aspects to marketing) Co-organizer in Brazillian MRS conference 2023. To promote for abstract submission, inviting speakers, reviewing abstracts, arrangement and organize the oral and poster presentations. (2023/10/01 - 2023/10/05)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS), Brazil

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/11/28 - 2023/11/29 The 3D Bioprinting Iberian Workshop was a wokshop + conference that focused on 3D bioprinting techniques and latest state of the art in a conference like format, with invited speakers, followed by a wokshop that involves hand on action with Cellink and Paralab's Bioprinters. 3DBIW - 3D Bioprinting Iberian Workshop
Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal
2023/07/20 - 2023/07/25 Ciência Viva 2023 - Monitoring of high school students in lab activities for the production and characterization of triboelectric devices based on cellulose Ciência Viva 2023
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/07/19 - 2022/07/28 Giving short course classes to the students from various backgrounds on Paper mechanical energy harvesting solutions. BEST Course Summer Season Almada 2022
2022/02/18 - 2022/02/21 Actively participated in the event and supervised our junior researchers to successfully demonstrate our energy-generating vibration sensor prototypes to the (graduate) students. Besides, the demonstrators also include a flappy bird game interface active with touch sensor prototypes, the model city lit up with LEDs by the energy generating prototype device.
Workshop
 "Sense Tomorrow", Jornadas Tecnológicas do Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais (JORTEC)-DCM,FCT-UNL
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24 "Eco-sustainable devices for mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion enabling low power consumption autonomous devices": This was the demonstrator we presented together with the CENIMAT-i3N group. More than 500 visitors came to our desk which included kids to adults, teachers to smart professionals. The idea was to present our prototypes to the public for exhibiting science while at the same time spreading social awareness about green and sustainable energy.
Exhibition
 European Researchers´Night 2021
2021/07/19 - 2021/07/23 Together with CENIMAT-i3N researchers took active participation in this event. One of the Ph.D. students under my mentoring demonstrated a workshop on "Fibras electrónicas que geram energia!" (Electronic fibers that generate energy) to the students of 9th-12th standards. This whole week of July, the students were learning with us, how they can generate energy from our daily waste energies with body movements with functionalized textile fibers. Starting from functionalization to device making to application-they learnt and executed all by themselves.
Workshop
 Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Criar Futuro
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/11/03 - 2020/11/04 This was a demonstration of several mechanical energy harvester prototypes developed at Cenimat (FCT UNL) during different research projects. The development processes of these devices with planar or linear configurations are also demonstrated, as well as their application when connecting simple electrical devices such as an analog clock and LEDs. (Presentation was shown online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIiRqn7rqZs&feature=youtu.be)
Exhibition
 Systems for converting mechanical to electrical energy for autonomous low-consumption devices
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2019/10/23 - 2019/10/23 In this event, we have shown our textile-based energy harvester prototype to school and university students coming from different areas. We gave them a chance for hands-on experience with the prototype to realize how it works and actually power up LEDs just by hand patting.
Exhibition
 RAW Materials University Day 2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/12 It was a 5-day event where many high school and university students come to learn and participate in ongoing research activities. We utilized this platform for reaching directly to the next generation to promote and encourage our latest findings on conducting polymer-based energy harvester. During these days the student functionalize textile fibers with the energy harvesting material by our protocols and they also managed easily to power LEDs with the device they made. They were quite enthusiastic about the outcome of their activity.
Workshop
 Ciência Viva no Laboratório-2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/04/24 - 2019/04/24 In this event, we presented our paper and textile-based 2 prototypes to make aware the students coming from different parts of Portugal along with their teachers, about the necessity of renewable energy and green technology to our society and how we are aiming that with our work.
Exhibition
 EXPO 2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/07/09 - 2018/07/13 This platform for the scientific workshop was 5 days of research interaction with the students. As an active member of the 1D-Neon project, I was responsible to teach the students how to functionalize textile fibers for fiber transistors. They were excited to learn the process of fiber transistor fabrication.
Workshop
 Ciência Viva no Laboratório 2018
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/10/22 - 2021/10/31 Sustainability (2071-1050) MDPI