Sofia Caspani (751B-EB8C-B5E4)

Curriculum Vitae

Sofia Caspani

Sofia Caspani graduated in Physics Engineering (B. Sc.) in 2016, from Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy) and in Medical Physics (M. Sc.) in 2019, from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto. During her Master thesis, she gained an increasing intrest in the developement of magnetic nanomaterials to be used in the biomedical field, which allowed her to continue her studies as a reserach fellow in the Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP). She is, nowadays, an active researcher in the European project MSCA-RISE-734801-MAGNAMED, having obtained her first research grant in the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028676, followed by the actual project (POCI-01-01-45-FEDER-031302) in the field of magentic nanomaterials with different magnetic behaviors. From february 2021 she is a PhD student at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto in the MAP-Fis doctoral program. She actuates in medical physics, engineering and nanomaterials.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sofia Caspani
Date of birth: 1994/12/17
Gender: Female

Citation names

S. Caspani

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 751B-EB8C-B5E4
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1996-768X

Email addresses

sofixsofi@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+39) 3314304446 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/02/11 - 2025/09/01 Ongoing	Física (MAP-FIS) (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/14 - 2019/09/27 Concluded	Física Médica (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Magnetic nanoparticles as potential contrast agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2014/09/15 - 2016/09/22 Concluded	Physics engineering (Bachelor) Politecnico di Milano, Italy "Morphological analysis of nanostructures obtained through the combination of Bessel beams and selective chemical etchings" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/10/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal
2020/01/15 - 2020/09/15	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/11/18 - 2019/11/22	Scientific Stay	Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Spain

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/10/01 - Current	Dimensionality effects in the physical properties of Heusler and magnetorestrictive intermetallic materials: From 1- to 3-D architetures POCI-01-01-45-FEDER-031302 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/15 - 2020/09/14	3DNanoMemories - Magnetic Nanofibers for 3D Racetrack Memory Devices POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028676 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/07/26 - 2021/07/25	Nanofibras Magnéticas para Dispositivos de Armazenamento Digital 3D PTDC/CTM-CTM/28676/2017 Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2020/09/01	Novel magnetic nanostructures for medical applications 2018/01 - AtualMSCA-RISE-734801-MAGNAMEDInvestigadorMSCA-RISE-734801-MAGNAMED Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Magalhães, Ricardo (0D13-7A9F-151C); S. Caspani; João Pedro Esteves de Araújo; Sousa, Célia Tavares de. "Magnetic 1D nanostructures for medical sensing applications". In Magnetic Sensors and Actuators in Medicine. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, 2023. Published
Conference poster	R. Magalhães; S. Caspani; D. Navas; C. Redondo; R. Morales; S. Lima; S. Reis; et al. Corresponding author: R. Magalhães. "Surface Functionalization of Spin-Vortex Nano-Discs for Magneto-Mechanically Induced Damage Applications". Paper presented in Nanomaterials Applied to Life Sciences 2022, 2022. V. M. Andrade; S. Caspani; J.P. Araújo; C. T. Sousa; M. P. Proença. "Multi-segmented NiCu/FeCo/Au nanowire arrays for racetrack memory devices". Paper presented in Intermag 2021, 2021. S. Caspani; S. Moraes; Magalhães, Ricardo; C. T. Sousa; J.P. Araújo. "DC electrodeposition of segmented Au/Fe nanowires". Paper presented in 14th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTRODEPOSITED NANOSTRUCTURES (EDNANO-14), 2020. Magalhães, Ricardo; P. Rocha-Rodrigues; A. Apolinario; S. Moraes; S. Caspani; C. T. Sousa; J.P. Araújo. "Pulsed Electrodeposition of PdAu Dendrites". Paper presented in 14th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTRODEPOSITED NANOSTRUCTURES (EDNANO-14), 2020. C. T. Sousa; L. Peixoto; D. Navas; S. Moraes; Magalhães, Ricardo (0D13-7A9F-151C); S. Caspani; C. Redondo. "Vortex nano-discs for magnetomechanically induced damage in cancer cells". Paper presented in 2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials Applied to Life Sciences 2020 (NALS 2020), 2020.
Journal article	Sara C. Freitas; Daniel Sanderson; Caspani, Sofia; Magalhães, Ricardo; Belén Cortés-Llanos ; Granja, Andreia; Reis, Salette; et al. Corresponding author: Sousa, Célia Tavares de. "New Frontiers in Colorectal Cancer Treatment Combining Nanotechnology with Photo- and Radiotherapy". Cancers 15 2 (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/2/383. Published Sara C. Freitas; Daniel Sanderson; Sofia Caspani; Ricardo Magalhães; Belén Cortés-Llanos; Andreia Granja; Salette Reis; et al. "New Frontiers in Colorectal Cancer Treatment Combining Nanotechnology with Photo- and Radiotherapy". Cancers (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15020383. 10.3390/cancers15020383 Sofia Caspani; Suellen Silveira Moraes; C.T. Sousa; Mariana P Proenca; Ricardo Magalhães; Cláudia Nunes; João Pedro Esteves de Araújo; Célia T. Sousa. "The Magnetic Properties of Fe/Cu Multilayered Nanowires: The Role of the Number of Fe Layers and Their Thickness". Nanomaterials (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/10/2729. 10.3390/nano11102729 S. Caspani; R. Magalhães; S. Moraes; M. P. Proença; D. Navas; J.P. Araújo; C.T. Sousa. "Tuning the magnetic properties of Fe/Au/Fe nanowires for biomedical applications". Applied Sciences (2020): Under revision S. Caspani; Magalhães, Ricardo; J. P. Araujo; C. T. Sousa. "Magnetic nanomaterials as contrast agents for MRI". Materials MDPI 13 11 (2020): 2586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13112586. Open access • Published • 10.3390/ma13112586
Newspaper article	Sara Freitas; S. Caspani; R. Magalhães; C. T. Sousa; J. H. Belo. Corresponding author: J. H. Belo. "Nanopartículas no diagnóstico e tratamento do cancro ¿ oportunidades e desafios", Gazeta da Física, 2022, 3, https://www.spf.pt/magazines/GFIS/512.
Thesis / Dissertation	Sofia Caspani. "Magnetic nanoparticles as potential contrast agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2019. Sofia Caspani. "Morphological analysis of nanostructures obtained through the combination of Bessel beams and selective chemical etchings"". Degree, Politecnico di Milano, 2016.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/09/12	Magnetic properties of Fe/Cu multilayered nanowires: the role of the Fe number of layers and their thickness	Magnetism in Portugal 2022 – Young Researches (Porto, Portugal)
2021/08/18	INVITED: Vortex nano-discs: from micromagnetic simulations to cancer cells internalization for magneto-mechanically induced damage applications	AAAFM-UCLA Conference (Los Angeles, United States)
2021/04/26	Vortex nano-discs: from micromagnetic simulations to cancer cells internalization for magneto-mechanically induced damage applications	Intermag 2021 (Lyon, France)
2020/12/07	INVITED: Tuning the magnetic behaviour of Fe/Cu electrodeposited nanowires with controllable Fe and Cu	The Joint European Magnetic Symposia, JEMS 2020 (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/03/25	Synthetic antiferromagnetic nanoparticles as potential contrast agents in MRI	IFIMUP talks (Porto, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/03	Theorical and practical workshop about preclinical molecular imaging and its applications in the biomedical research field. Workshop	Workshop de Introducción a la Imagen Molecular Preclínica y sus Aplicaciones en Investigación Biomédica Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Spain
2021/02/03 - 2021/02/05	Virtual annual meeting on Glioma Imaging Bridging Clinic and Research Meeting	Glioma Imaging Bridging Clinic and Research
2020/12/15 - 2020/12/15	One Dimensional Nanostructures and their Applications 2020 Workshop	1-D NANO APP 2020 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/05/28 - 2023/06/07	Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) -The main goal of this STSM was to join the work being developed at the Autonomous University of Madrid – UAM, to study the effect of template-assisted electrodeposited Fe NWs, fabricated in porous anodic alumina (PAA) membranes, on glioblastoma multiforme cell lines (U87) and to further test the fabricated nanostructures in vivo in collaboration with the General Hospital of Gregorio Maranon (Madrid).	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Facultad de Ciencias, Spain