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Pedro Silva dedicated his research and educational interests to bioinspired flexible materials. During his PhD, he devised several strategies to validate both theoretical and computational models with real experiments, using innovative and creative approaches in molecular dynamics simulations and electrospinning technique. Resourceful, with ingenious skills, able to work as part of a team and to use own initiative. Committed to the highest levels of professional and personal excellence. His work is driven by a passion for science and on the basis of discovering relevant phenomena that can help to make a better society. Currently, Pedro Silva is a Researcher Fellow in the Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group (SBMG) group of CENIMAT|i3N (Portugal), a research centre devoted to nanomaterials science. His main area is structural functional and smart materials, with a focus on the bioinspired design of macro and microscopic structures with helical architectures.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Emanuel Santos Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Pedro E. S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7215-C034-E843
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8783-8740
Google Scholar ID
jMXeWMcAAAAJ
Researcher Id
F-4918-2016
Scopus Author Id
7203089095

Email addresses

  • pess@ua.pt (Professional)
  • pess@fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 , Caparica, Almada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology
  • Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/02/05
Concluded
Nanociências e Nanotecnologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Development of new structures with helical filaments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
N/A
2010
Concluded
Mestrado em Física (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Modelação da dinâmica de filamentos elásticos " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
2008
Concluded
Física (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Tempos de Decaimento da Fotoluminescência de Híbridos Orgânicos Inorgânicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/07/14 - 2020/07/13 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2018/07/13 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2011/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/01 - 2020/12 Fabricating cellulose nanocomposites for structural coloration Norges forskningsråd
2016/01 - 2018/07 MSc fellow - Fibers networks: Design and Computational simulations
FCT UID/CTM/50025/2013
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/01 - 2015/12 PhD Scholarship
FCT SFRH/BD/76369/2011
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010/04 - 2013/09 Production of nonwoven fabrics with Physical PseudoKnots Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silva, Pedro E. S.; de Abreu, Fernão Vistulo; Correia, Ana Isabel D.; Godinho, Maria Helena. "Handedness in Plant Tendrils". In Asymmetry in Plants, 179-192. CRC Press, 2019.
    10.1201/9780429492372-13
  2. Pedro E. S. Silva; Maria Helena Godinho; Fernão Vístulo de Abreu. "Computational Design of Superhelices by Local Change of the Intrinsic Curvature". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-22734-0_35
Conference poster
  1. Silva, Pedro E. S.; Godinho, Maria Helena; de Abreu, Fernao Vistulo. "Designing elastomeric ribbons with superhelical shapes". Paper presented in XIX Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and X International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  2. Silva, Pedro E. S.; Trindade, Ana C.; de Abreu, Fernao Vistulo; Godinho, M. H.. "Intrinsic curvature of elastic filaments revealed by wrinkling". Paper presented in 8th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, 2015.
  3. Silva, Pedro E. S.; Faria, Bruno. F.; Dias, Ricardo G.; de Abreu, Fernao Vistulo. "Simulation of force-extension experiments for elastic filaments using GPUs". Paper presented in 6th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, 2011.
  4. Silva, Pedro E. S.; de Abreu, Fernao Vistulo; Simoes, Ricardo; Dias, Ricardo G.. "Modelação da dinâmica de filamentos elásticos". Paper presented in 17a Conferência Nacional de Física, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Rafaela Raupp da Rosa; P.E.S. Silva; Diogo V. Saraiva; Anant Kumar; António P. Mendes Sousa; Pedro Sebastião; Fernandes, S.; Fernandes, S. N.; Fernandes, Susete N;; MH Godinho. "Cellulose Nanocrystal Aqueous Colloidal Suspensions: Evidence of Density Inversion at the Isotropic-Liquid Crystal Phase Transition". Advanced Materials 34 28 (2022): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/5b74d272-b074-410f-81e3-b2a89a38024d.
    10.1002/adma.202108227
  2. Pedro E. S. Silva; Rafaela R. da Rosa; Ricardo Chagas; Susete N. Fernandes; Maria Helena Godinho. "Colourful Patterns in Cellulose-Based Liquid Crystals". Liquid Crystals and their Application (2021): https://doi.org/10.18083/LCAppl.2021.4.53.
    10.18083/LCAppl.2021.4.53
  3. Pedro E. S. Silva; Ricardo Chagas; Susete N. Fernandes; Pawel Pieranski; Robin L. B. Selinger; Maria Helena Godinho. "Travelling colourful patterns in self-organized cellulose-based liquid crystalline structures". Communications Materials (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00182-7.
    10.1038/s43246-021-00182-7
  4. Silva, Pedro E. S.. "Flexible and Structural Coloured Composite Films from Cellulose Nanocrystals/Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Lyotropic Suspensions". Crystals (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cryst10020122.
    10.3390/cryst10020122
  5. Ricardo Chagas; Pedro E. S. Silva; Susete N. Fernandes; Slobodan Žumer; Maria Helena Godinho; Silva, Pedro E. S.. "Playing the blues, the greens and the reds with cellulose-based structural colours". Faraday Discussions (2020): https://doi.org/10.1039/D0FD00020E.
    10.1039/D0FD00020E
  6. Almeida, Ana P. C.; Querciagrossa, Lara; Silva, Pedro E. S.; Gonçalves, Filipa; Canejo, João P.; Almeida, Pedro L.; Godinho, Maria Helena; et al. "Reversible water driven chirality inversion in cellulose-based helices isolated from Erodium awns". Soft Matter (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8sm02290a.
    10.1039/c8sm02290a
  7. Silva, Pedro Emanuel Santos; Godinho, Maria Helena. "Helical Microfilaments with Alternating Imprinted Intrinsic Curvatures". Macromolecular Rapid Communications 38 5 (2017): 1600700-n/a. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000395398100005&KeyUID=WOS:000395398100005.
    10.1002/marc.201600700
  8. Silva, P.E.S.; Vistulo De Abreu, F.; Godinho, M.H.; Silva, P. E. S.; Vistulo de Abreu, F.; Godinho, M. H.. "Shaping helical electrospun filaments: A review". Soft Matter 13 38 (2017): 6678-6688. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030771726&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1039/c7sm01280b
  9. Silva, Pedro E. S.; Trigueiros, Joao L.; Trindade, Ana C.; Simoes, Ricardo; Dias, Ricardo G.; Godinho, Maria Helena; de Abreu, Fernao Vistulo; et al. "Perversions with a twist". Scientific Reports 6 (2016): 23413-23413. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84963704125&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/srep23413 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23413#supplementary-information
  10. M. Facão and A Lopes and A L Silva and P Silva. "Computer simulation for calculating the second-order correlation function of classical and quantum light". European Journal of Physics 32 4 (2011): 925-925. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000291686800011&KeyUID=WOS:000291686800011.
    10.1088/0143-0807/32/4/007
  11. P. E. S. Silva and F Vistulo de Abreu and R Simões and R G Dias. "A first approach to filament dynamics". European Journal of Physics 31 6 (2010): 1473-1473. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000283559000016&KeyUID=WOS:000283559000016.
    10.1088/0143-0807/31/6/013
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/11/06 Computational Design of Superhelices Inspired by Tendril Perversions Eutopia Annual Meeting 2019 (COST)
EUTOPIA COST Action (San Sebastian, Spain)
2019/06/14 Computational Design of Superhelices by Local Change of the Intrinsic Curvature ICCS - International Conference on Computational Science
(Faro, Portugal)
2018/10/22 Producing fibres with helical shapes using UV light 5th Annual International Workshop on Soft & Complex Matter
(Oslo, Norway)
2018/06/13 Printing curvature and torsion in elastomeric ribbons 3rd International Conference on Photoalignment and Photopattering in Soft Materials
(Tampere, Finland)
2017/10/17 Tuning the curvature and torsion of anisotropic elastic filaments International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference
(Houston, United States)
2016/07/20 A new twist on perversions 5th Jornadas do CENIMAT
(Caparica, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/03/11 - 2019/03/21 Winter School: Evolving Soft Matter: Shape, Dynamics and Functionality
Workshop
Evolving Soft Matter: Shape, Dynamics and Functionality
Institutt for energiteknikk, Norway
2018/10/15 - 2018/10/22 Research visit to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, by invitation of Jon Otto Fossum (coordinator of the Laboratory for soft and complex matter studies)
Meeting
2012/03/26 - 2012/03/29 Workshop: Beyond Molecular Dynamics: Long Time Atomic-Scale Simulations
Workshop
Beyond Molecular Dynamics: Long Time Atomic-Scale Simulations
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Germany
2011/07/18 - 2011/07/22 Summer School: Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems
Workshop
Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Spain
2011/07/06 - 2011/07/08 Workshop: GPU Workshop
Workshop
GPU Workshop
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - 2020/01/31 Liquid Crystals and Applications (Licenciatura)
2018/09 - 2019/01 Polymer Chemistry (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2019 Best Poster Award
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais, Portugal
2017 Student Travel Award