Personal identification

Full name

Érica Fontes da Silva Torres

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

221E-2A7B-9FA8

ORCID iD

0000-0001-6179-8034

	Degree	Classification
2015 Concluded	Doutoramento em Química (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Síntese e Fotoquímica de Novos Compostos Orgânicos para Células Solares Híbridas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com Distinção e Louvor
2010 Concluded	Mestrado em Análises Laboratoriais (Mestrado) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal "Fotoquímica e Caracterização Espectroscópica de Novos Corantes Cianínicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15 valores (2º Ciclo) - 18 valores (nota obtida na
2007 Concluded	Licenciatura em Química (Licenciatura) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal "Relatório final de Curso: Síntese e Propriedades Fotocrómicas de Novos Naftopiranos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/04/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2019/01/06 - 2019/03/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2018/11/30	Postdoc (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Portugal
2009/05/01 - 2011/05/31	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia - Campus do Lumiar, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2008/11/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Química Vila Real, Portugal
2007/10/01 - 2008/07/31	Researcher (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Portugal
2006/02/01 - 2006/11/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Química Vila Real, Portugal
2005/04/01 - 2005/12/20	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Laboratório de Corrosão - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003/03/01 - 2005/03/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Laboratório de Microbiologia e Imunologia - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/10/15 - 2021/02/15	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2021	Mesoporous silica nanoparticles to tailor the electron donor:acceptor architecture in photovoltaics PTDC/CTM-CTM/32444/2017 Researcher	Ongoing
2013/01/01 - 2016/12/31	MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING AND SENSING info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/128813/PT Research Fellow	Concluded
2009/05/01 - 2011/05/29	Organic Materials for Solid-State Dye Solar Cells PTDC/CTM-CER/111590/2009 Research Fellow Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia - Campus do Lumiar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2010/12/31	Solar cells based on new conjugated organic dyes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/64909/PT Research Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Conference poster	Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Amine Functionalized Perylenediimides: Influence of the Number and Position of Substituents on the Optical and Electrochemical Properties". Paper presented in XXVI Encontro Nacional da SPQ 2019, Porto, Portugal., 2019. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Photophysical and Characterization of new organic molecules of TADF". Paper presented in Workshop on Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence, 2018. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Photophysical studies of a novel blue TADF emitter for OLED applications". Paper presented in International TADF Symposium, 2017. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "N,N´-diaryl-perylene-3,9-diamine derivatives: Synthesis, Characterization and Electroluminescence Properties". Paper presented in Encontro Luso Galego de Química 2016, 2016. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Dye assessment in nanostructured TiO2 sensitized films by microprobe techniques". Paper presented in International Workshop on Nanostructures for Solar Cells - INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 2014. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Assessment of dye distribution in sensitized solar cells by microprobe techniques". Paper presented in 14th International Conference on Nuclear Microprobe Technology and Applications – ICNMTA, 2014. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties of perylene dyes for solar cells applications". Paper presented in HOPV 2014, 2014. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Charge transport and recombination of dye solar cells employing a coumarin dye with triple bond as pi-spacer unit". Paper presented in HOPV2013, 2013. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Coumarin dyes with triple bonds as pi-spacer units for dye sensitized". Paper presented in HOPV 2012, 2012. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Coumarin dyes with triple bonds as pi spacer units for dye sensitized solar cells". Paper presented in ISOPHOS 2012, 2012. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Dye sensitized sputtered nanocrystalline TiO2 Optoelectronic properties". Paper presented in 4th International Meeting on Developments in Materials, Processes and Applications of Emerging Technologies, 2010. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Optoelectronic Properties of Dye Sensitized Sputtered Nanocrystalline TiO2". Paper presented in HOPV 2010, 2010. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Photophysics of Thio and Selenium carbocyanine dyes on solutions and surfaces. Evaluation of their potential use as singlet oxygen sensitysers". Paper presented in FESBE 2008, Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil., 2008. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Influencia de anticorpos anti-glicoconjugados na diferenciaça o e no crescimento de Pseudallescheria boydii". Paper presented in Brazilian Congress of Microbiology 2005, 2005. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Involvement of glycoconjugates in the differentiation and growth of Pseudallescheria boydii". Paper presented in XXXIV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SBBq 2005, Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil., 2005. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Glucosylceramides in as fungal glycosphingolipids involved with differentiation of conidia into mycelial cells". Paper presented in XXXIII Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , SBBq 2004, 2004.
Journal article	Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Two-photon absorption of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid diimides: effect of substituents in the bay". Dyes and Pigments (2021): Submitted Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Novel phenoxazine-benzonitrile and phenothiazine-benzonitrile donor-acceptor molecules with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)". Dyes and Pigments 175 (2020): 108114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.108114. Torres, Érica; Bogel-Lukasik, Rafal; Berberan-Santos, Mário Nuno; Höfle, Stefan; Colsmann, Alexander; Brites, Maria João. "N,N'-Diaryl-perylene-3,9-diamine derivatives: synthesis, characterization and electroluminescence properties". RSC Advances 6 109 (2016): 107180-107188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra20126a. 10.1039/c6ra20126a Torres, Érica; Sequeira, Sara; Parreira, Pedro; Mendes, Paulo; Silva, Tiago; Lobato, Killian; Brites, Maria João. "Coumarin dye with ethynyl group as p-spacer unit for dye sensitized solar cells". Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 310 (2015): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2015.05.017. 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2015.05.017 Barreiros, M.A.; Corregidor, V.; Alves, L.C.; Guimarães, F.; Mascarenhas, J.; Torres, E.; Brites, M.J.. "Assessment of dye distribution in sensitized solar cells by microprobe techniques". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 348 (2015): 255-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2014.11.041. 10.1016/j.nimb.2014.11.041 Torres, Érica; Berberan-Santos, Mário Nuno; Brites, Maria João. "Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical properties of perylene dyes". Dyes and Pigments 112 (2015): 298-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.07.019. 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.07.019 Vieira Ferreira, Luís F.; Ferreira, Diana P.; Duarte, Paulo; Oliveira, A. S.; Torres, E.; Ferreira Machado, I.; Almeida, P.; Reis, Lucinda V.; Santos, Paulo F.. "Surface Photochemistry: 3,3'-Dialkylthia and Selenocarbocyanine Dyes Adsorbed onto Microcrystalline Cellulose". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 13 1 (2012): 596-611. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms13010596. 10.3390/ijms13010596 Parreira, P.; Torres, E.; Nunes, C.; de Carvalho, C. Nunes; Lavareda, G.; Amaral, A.; Brites, M.J.. "Dye-sensitized 1D anatase TiO2 nanorods for tunable efficient photodetection in the visible range". Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 161 1 (2012): 901-907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2011.11.059. 10.1016/j.snb.2011.11.059 Silva, Erica; Coelho, Paulo. "Novel Photochromic Spiro[Thioxanthene-Naphthopyrans] with Faster Bleaching Kinetics". Letters in Organic Chemistry 5 6 (2008): 502-506. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157017808785740417. 10.2174/157017808785740417
Thesis / Dissertation	Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "Síntese e Fotoquímica de Novos Compostos Orgânicos para Células Solares Híbridas". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2015. https://www.ulisboa.pt/prova-academica/sintese-e-fotoquimica-de-novos-compostos-organicos-para-celulas-solares-hibridas. Torres, Érica Fontes da Silva. "FOTOQUÍMICA E CARACTERIZAÇÃO ESPECTROSCÓPICA DE NOVOS CORANTES CIANÍNICOS". Master, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2010.