Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Manuela Ferreira Brás
Citation names
- M. Manuela Brás
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 721A-F913-83CE
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6638-1211
Websites
- https://orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0001-6638-1211 (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/directory/profiles (Professional)
- https://publons.com/researcher/2123579/maria-mf-bras/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering - Composites
- Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology - Nano-materials
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
French | Elementary (A2) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/11 - 2021/12
Ongoing
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Engenharia Biomédica (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2001/07
Concluded
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Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Chemical Decontamination of Organic Liquid Hospital Wastes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito bom |
1995/12
Concluded
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Engenharia Metalúrgica e Materiais (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Study and Application of the PEAD in Pipes for Transporting of Combustible Gases. Graduation Thesis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Classificação final - 12 valores |
Affiliation
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2004/09/01 - Current | Head Team of Biointerfaces and Nanotechnology Scientific platform | Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
1999/08/01 - Current | Research Assistant - Chief Technician of INEB | Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
1999/08/01 - 2001/07/31 | Research Technician at the Biomaterials Laboratory, INEB | Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
1996/11/01 - 1998/10/31 | Research Technician with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology | Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2008/05/08 | The role of Biomedical Engineering for health care improvements | III Semana de Engenharia
High School of Technology de Abrantes (Abrantes, Portugal)
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2006/11/06 | Health and Safety Rules | Seminar Environmental Health and Safety Rules
ECSN - Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde (Paredes, Portugal)
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2006/06/19 | Atomic Force Microscopy: a versatile technique for cell-biology and biomaterials sciences | 7th Advanced Summer Course in Cell – Materials Interactions, Medicine Regenerative, INEB- Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica
Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (Porto, Portugal)
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2005/11/07 | Atomic Force Microscopy: a powerful bioengineering technique | 1st Workshop on Advanced Light Microscopy and Flow Citometry
IBMC- Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (Porto, Portugal)
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2004/05/05 | Laboratory for Chemistry Experimentation: good working rules. |
High School of Health Sciences, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2004/03/05 | The implementation of Good Laboratory Practices or ISO/ IEC 17025 |
ISEP/IPP (Porto, Portugal)
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2002/04/08 | Safety in Research Laboratories: for high hazardous, high safety |
ISEP/ IPP (Porto, Portugal)
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2001/04/09 | Hazardous Sewage Treatment | Materials 2001
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2000/05/27 | Chemical Decontamination of Organic Liquid Hospital Wastes: Microbiological Tests | BioEng’ 2000 Congress
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2017/11/15 - Current | 1st Course of Atomic Force Microscopy coupled to Inverted Fluorescence Microscope (2017/11/15 - 2017/11/17)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2023/10/25 - 2023/10/27 | Atomic Force Microscopy applied to Life Sciences Course | 3rd edition (2023/10/25 - 2023/10/27)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal |
2019/11/06 - 2019/11/08 | 2nd Course of Atomic Force Microscopy applied to Life Sciences (2019/11/06 - 2019/11/08)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2016/10/26 - 2016/10/28 | 5th International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – Disease in focus (2016/10/26 - 2016/10/28)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2016/04/11 - 2016/04/14 | 7th AFMBiomed2016 - AFM for Life Sciences and Nanomedicine (2016/04/11 - 2016/04/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2014/10/15 - 2014/10/17 | 3rd International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – Capturing life in a pixel (2014/10/15 - 2014/10/17)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2014/03/27 - 2014/03/30 | Exhibition “IBMC/ INEB” integrated in the 12th “Mostra da Universidade do Porto”, at Pavilhão Rosa Mota, Porto (2014/03/27 - 2014/03/30)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
2004/09/09 - 2004/09/11 | BioÉvora 2004: II Iberian Congress on Biomaterials (2004/09/09 - 2004/09/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
2004/03/18 - 2004/03/21 | Exhibition “IBMC/ INEB” integrated in the 2th “Mostra da Ciência”, from University of Porto, pavilhão Rosa Mota, Porto (18-
21/03). Organizing Committee, 2003. (2004/03/18 - 2004/03/21)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
2002/05/10 - 2002/05/11 | Exhibition “IBMC/ INEB”, integrated in the 6th Forum “Ciência Viva”, Pavilhão do Atlântico – Parque das Nações (10-11/05/2002).
Organizing Committee, 2002. (2002/05/10 - 2002/05/11)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
2001/03/18 - 2001/03/21 | Exhibition “IBMC/ INEB” integrated in the 1th “Mostra da Ciência”, from University of Porto, Mercado Ferreira Borges, Porto (2001/03/18 - 2001/03/21)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2019/09/02 - 2019/09/06 | 9th AFM BioMed 2019 Conference
Conference
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9th AFM BioMed 2019
Fachhochschule Münster Hochschulbibliothek, Germany
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2018/11/08 - 2018/11/09 | Combined Microscopy
Workshop
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Combined Microscopy workshop
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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2018/05/08 - 2018/05/11 | VIII Workshop on Cancer Research Biology and Molecular Basis
Workshop
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VIII Workshop on Cancer Research Biology and Molecular Basis
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
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2018/04/16 - 2018/04/18 | Introduction to data analysis & image processing with MATLAB, i3S| INEB, Porto. April 16 – 18, 2018
Other
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Introduction to data analysis & image processing with MATLAB
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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2017/09/04 - 2017/09/08 | 8th AFM BioMed 2017
Conference
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8th AFM BioMed 2017
Uniwersytet Rolniczy im Hugona Kollataja w Krakowie, Poland
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2014/04/14 - 2014/04/16 | Working with Image J and ICY: Hands on image analysis for microscopy
Workshop
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Working with Image J and ICY: Hands on image analysis for microscopy
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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2014/03/20 - 2014/03/22 | Member of COST Action TD1002 - Participation in the BMBS COST Action TD1002: “European network on applications of Atomic Force
Microscopy to NanoMedicine and Life Sciences (AFM4NanoMed&Bio)
Meeting
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COST Action TD1002: “European network on applications of Atomic Force Microscopy to NanoMedicine and Life Sciences (AFM4NanoMed&Bio)
University of Viterbo, Italy
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2013/09/26 - 2013/09/27 | Member of COST Action TD1002 - Participation in the BMBS COST Action TD1002: “European network on applications of Atomic Force
Microscopy to NanoMedicine and Life Sciences (AFM4NanoMed&Bio)”, 26th – 27th September, Dubrovnik, Croacia, 2013.
Meeting
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COST Action TD1002: “European network on applications of Atomic Force Microscopy to NanoMedicine and Life Sciences (AFM4NanoMed&Bio) |
2012/10/06 - 2012/10/20 | Introduction to Scientific Programming with MATLAB
Other
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Introduction to Scientific Programming with MATLAB
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2011/05/17 - 2011/05/19 | The Agilent-ScienTec AFM Users Meeting
Meeting
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The Agilent-ScienTec AFM Users Meeting
CentraleSupélec, France
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2009/12/10 - 2009/12/11 | Workshop Nano09 - Shaping the Future
Workshop
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Workshop Nano09 |
2008/06/07 - 2008/06/07 | Participation in the Materials, Physical and Nanosciences COST Action 537, Core Laboratories for the improvement of medical
devices in clinical practice from the analysis of implanted prostheses, Orthopaedics Group
Meeting
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Materials, Physical and Nanosciences COST Action 537, Core Laboratories for the improvement of medical devices in clinical
practice from the analysis of implanted prostheses
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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2008/05/13 - 2008/05/15 | 1st International SPM user meeting
Meeting
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Fundació Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
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2006/02/03 - 2006/02/06 | VIII Annual Linz Winter workshop Advances in Single – Molecule Research for Biology and Nanoscience
Workshop
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VIII Annual Linz Winter workshop Advances in Single – Molecule Research for Biology and Nanoscience
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
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2003/10/29 - 2003/10/31 | Member of the study commission in the "Laboratory Safety: Biologic, Chemistry and Radiologic", School of Ciências da Saúde,
Universidade do Minho, Braga
Symposium
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Laboratory Safety: Biologic, Chemistry and Radiologic
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2003/10/17 - 2003/10/19 | Biofilms in Medicine
Conference
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Biofilms in Medicine
Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2014 - 2018 | Network “ARBRE – Association of Resources for Biophysical Research in Europe in the framework on the COST Action CA15126 - Between Atom and Cell: Integrating Molecular Biophysics Approaches for Biology and Healthcare (MOBIEU) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2018/06/21 - 2018/06/21 | Atomic Force Microscopy in liquids applied to biological samples (cells) | Quirina Alexandra Tavares Ferreira |
2017/05/22 - 2017/05/26 | Mechanical properties measurements on different cell lines | Gulnihal Yelken (IZMIR, Institute of Technology), in the framework of the Erasmus Program: Erasmus+ |
2017/02/02 - 2017/02/04 | Practical sessions of Bioimaging for Regenerative Therapies and Nanotechnology in the GABBA - Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. New Therapies and Technologies, February 2nd – 4th, i3S, Porto, Portugal, 2017. | PhD students |
2016/10/26 - 2016/10/28 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy coupled with Inverted Optical Microscopy in the 5rd International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging | PhD students |
2016/02/22 - 2016/02/26 | Practical sessions of Bioimaging for Regenerative Therapies and Nanotechnology in the GABBA - Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. New Therapies and Technologies, February 22th – 26th, i3S, Porto, Portugal, 2016. | PhD students |
2014/10/15 - 2014/10/17 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy coupled with Inverted Optical Microscopy in the 3rd International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – Capturing life in a pixel, October 15th-17th, INEB, Porto, Portugal, 2014. | PhD students |
2013/03/11 - 2013/03/15 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy and Surface Analysis in the GABBA – Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. New Therapies and Technologies | PhD students (GABBA programme) |
2012/02/12 - 2012/02/17 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy and Surface Analysis in the GABBA – Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. New Therapies and Technologies, Tissue Engineering and regeneration | PhD students (GABBA programme) |
2011/04/11 - 2011/04/15 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy and Surface Analysis in the GABBA – Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. New Therapies and Technologies, Tissue Engineering and regeneration | PhD Students (GABBA programme) |
2008/06/16 - 2008/06/20 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy in the 9th Advanced Summer Course in Cell Materials Interactions – Bioinspired matrices for tissue regeneration | PhD students |
2008/06/05 - 2008/06/06 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy in the Training School of COST action 537 course | PhD students |
2008/05/12 - 2008/05/16 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy and Surface Analysis in the GABBA – Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology Course. Biomaterials in Tissue Regeneration | PhD students |
2007/06/19 - 2007/06/26 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy in the 7th Advanced Summer Course in Cell-Material Interactions- Regenerative Medicine | PhD students |
2007/04/01 - 2007/04/01 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy in the aim of the experimental module “Applications. Experimental demonstration AFM studies in biomaterials at molecular level”, Materials 2007- XIII Conferência da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materais | PhD students |
2006/06/20 - 2006/06/24 | Practical sessions of Atomic Force Microscopy in the 6th Advanced Course in Cell-Material Interactions at Molecular Level | PhD student |
2004/06/01 - 2004/07/31 | Microbiological tests performed in the “Study of ceramic materials sterilization for biomedical application” | Rita América. |
2004/01/02 - 2004/07/31 | Development of the documentation for the implementation of a Quality System according to the International Standard NP EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000 for accreditation of the SUIM | Eliana R. Marques Vale |
2004/06 - 2004/07 | Practical Component of “Spectroscopy of Visible, Infra-Red and RAMAN”, from the scientific area of Experimental Methods of Investigation in Materials II, Master of the Materials Engineering | PhD Students |
2003/01/02 - 2003/07/31 | Strong and weak points of Biomaterials Laboratory regarding to Health, Hygiene and Safety at Work | Daniela Choupina |
2000/05 - 2000/07 | "Waste Handling: potential hazards”, at the Resulima and Valorminho companies promoted by the Health, Hygiene and Safety at Work Minho Seguro Company, Viana do Castelo, Portugal | Employees of different companies |
1996/06 - 1996/07 | “Welding and Quality”, at the Acosgraf - Artes Gráficas Company, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, 1996. | Employees |