Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sara Filomena Ribeiro Pimenta
Citation names
- S. Pimenta
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4B1D-DE25-FD95
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6061-320X
Email addresses
- sara.pimenta@dei.uminho.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- University of Minho, Department of Industrial Electronics , Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/04/26 - 2017/05/12
Concluded
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Advanced Hands-on the Rodent Brain: from intracellular trafficking to brain connectome (Outros)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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2013 - 2017
Concluded
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PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Optical Microsystem for Spectroscopy Signals Extraction Applied to Gastrointestinal Dysplasia Detection" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Very good |
2007 - 2012
Concluded
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Integrated master in Biomedical Engineering - Major in Medical Electronics (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Development of an electronic and small system to human blood typing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Centro de Sistemas Microeletromecânicos, Portugal |
2017 - 2019 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Minho Centro de Sistemas Microeletromecânicos, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018 - 2022 | Scientific collaboration with CTBU | Chongqing Technology and Business University, China |
2018 - 2022 | Scientific collaboration with USN | Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Norway |
2018 - 2020 | Scientific Associate at INL | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal |
2013 - 2017 | PhD student - Biomedical Engineering (FCT grant SFRH/BD/87605/2012) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023 - 2029 | Stimulus of Scientific Employment, Individual Support (CEECIND)
Researcher
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021 - 2023 | CMEMS strategic project
UIDP/04436/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2019 - 2021 | In vivo Optical Coherence Tomography and Raman Spectroscopy for diagnosis of Colon-Rectal Cancer
PTDC/FIS-OTI/28296/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2017 - 2019 | BRAIN-LIGHTING - Neural probes equipped with electrical interaction, optical and wireless communication to target neurons
control (consortium: UMinho, INOVA+ and Champalimaud Foundation))
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-003416
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
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2013 - 2015 | Microsystem with integrated spectroscopy and (bio)sensors for the detection of gastrointestinal dysplasia
PTDC/EBB-EBI/120334/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Intellectual property
Patent |
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Provisional application for patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2021 | Neural probes for mapping and modulation | Biotech&Beyond
Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2018 | SU-8 Based Waveguide for Optrodes (poster) | Eurosensors
(Graz, Austria)
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2014 | Preliminary Monte Carlo based Inverse Model to Extract Optical Tissue Properties from Experimental Diffuse Reflectance Measurements - Coefficients Extraction for Gastrointestinal Dysplasia Detection (poster) | Photoptics
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2014 | Study of the fluorescence signal for gastrointestinal dysplasia detection | AOP
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2013 | Spectroscopy and pH biosensors for the detection of gastrointestinal dysplasia (poster) | ENBENG
(Braga, Portugal)
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2012 | Spectrophotometric approach for automatic human blood typing | ENBENG
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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2012 | Automatic Electronic System to Human Blood Typing (poster) | Eurosensors
(Kraków, Poland)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023 - Current | Development of a minimally invasive procedure for correction of esophageal atresia
Supervisor
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Ultra-thin and flexible probe for neuronal activity recording
Co-supervisor
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Electronic and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Micro-opto-electro-mechanical system based on multi-photon microscopy for integration in colonoscopy
Co-supervisor
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Biomedical Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2021 - 2022 | Optimized neural probe with an optical direct-writing patterning tool
Supervisor
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2019 - 2020 | Fabrication and characterization of a photodiode for integration in a flexible neural probe
Supervisor
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2018 - 2019 | Microlenses Fabrication for MicroLEDs
Supervisor
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Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2017 - 2018 | Optical filter integrated in a silicon photodiode array for application in neural probes
Supervisor
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Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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2017 - 2018 | Platinum thin-film electrodeposition system
Supervisor
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Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - 2019 | Workshop BRAIN-LIGHTING - presentation of the main project's results by the consortium UMinho, INOVA+, and Champalimaud Foundation (2019 - 2019)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023 | Additive manufacturing in the rubidium vapor cell fabrication for magnetoencephalography
(Thesis) Arguer
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João Borlido (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2023 | Determination of viscoelastic properties of biomaterials by Brillouin spectroscopy
(Thesis) Arguer
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António Rocha (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021 | Atomic magnetometers based on vapor cells for measurement of brain magnetic fields
(Thesis) Arguer
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Hugo Pereira (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2020 | Fabrication of Microelectrodes for In Vitro and Organotypic Cultures
(Thesis) Arguer
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Laura Apolinário (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019 | Electrochemical characterization of (PDMAA)p/PEDOT coated electrodes for DC stimulation
(Thesis) Arguer
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Ana Inês Santos (Master)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Institut fur Mikrosystemtechnik, Germany
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2018 | Photonic Module for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) in Endoscopic Capsules
(Thesis) Arguer
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Rodrigo Henrique Gounella (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Brazil
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Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement | IEEE |
2018 - Current | MDPI journals: Applied Sciences, Coatings, Sensors, Electronics, Biosensors | MDPI |
2019 - 2019 | OSA Biomedical Optics Express | OSA |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | Pharmaceutics 2023 Best Paper Award |
2012 | 1st MSc Award - Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2012 |