Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Miguel Coelho Paiva
Citation names
- Paiva, Pedro
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A319-EC13-BE88
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7003-6055
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=YNdZC-oAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
- Researcher Id
- Q-6851-2019
Email addresses
- pedro.paiva@fc.up.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto - Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Rua do Campo Alegre, S/N, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/11/01 - 2022/04/29
Concluded
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Sustainable Chemistry / Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (M2B) (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Understanding the hFAS Enzyme - a Promising Anticancer Target" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado por Unanimidade |
2014
Concluded
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Mestrado em Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"O papel do córtex pré-frontal medial no processamento de working memory: estimulação optogenética local e modulação farmacológica
dos recetores de dopamina D2 para a reversão de défices" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores |
2012
Concluded
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Licenciatura em Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Caracterização morfológica e funcional das células endoteliais e musculares lisas do tecido cavernoso de ratazana em cultura
por microscopia confocal: Papel dos recetores purinérgicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 valores |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/02/07 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal | ||
2022/06/16 - 2023/02/06 | Postdoc (Research) | REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/11/01 - 2022/04/29 | PhD Student of Sustainable Chemistry / Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (M2B) | REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal |
2015/12/01 - 2017/10/31 | Postgraduate researcher | REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2013/09/23 - 2015/09/30 | Team member developing the project “Modulation of fronto-hippocampal circuit oscillations: neurophysiological and behavioral correlates” (Ref: FCT: PTDC/NEU-SCC/1516/2012) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
2011/09/20 - 2012/09/07 | BSc student developing the project “Functional and morphological characterization of cultured rat cavernous tissue’s endothelial and smooth muscular cells by confocal microscopy: The role of purinergi | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/05/30 - Current | Biodegrading unsatured polyesters - establishing the enzymatic catalytic mechanism of Pseudomonas sp. MIS38 lipase
2022.15579.CPCA.A2
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/02/07 - Current | NOVO NORDISK FONDEN's Challenge Programme 2022 - Center for enzymatic deconstruction of thermoset plastics for a sustainable
society, En'Zync
0072891
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Novo Nordisk Fonden
Ongoing
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2022/05/01 - 2023/04/30 | Adsorption of the enzyme PETase on solid PET
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal |
Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2018/11 | Understanding the Catalytic Machinery of the Malonyl-Acetyl Transferase Domain of Human Fatty Acid Synthase | International Conference on Catalysis Science, Engineering & Technology
International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) (Estocolmo, Sweden)
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2016/02 | Neuraminidase: a quest for new inhibitors | 9th Meeting of Young Researchers of the University of Porto (IJUP2016)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2023/02 - Current | Studies for degradation of polyurethanes | João Lucas Duarte Mendes |
2022/09 - Current | Biodegradation of PET plastic | Francisca da Rocha Andrade |
2022/07 - 2022/11 | Reaction mechanism of Polyester Hydrolase (PE-H) investigated using molecular simulations | Samah Nassir |
2019/10/01 - 2020/11/10 | Understanding Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase catalysis as a step to the engineering of a CO2 capture device | Rita Maria Bolota Velho Pires da Fonseca |
2018/11/01 - 2019/09/06 | Optimizing the Production Of Bioplastics: A Computational Study of the Catalytic Mechanism of Pha A of Zooglea Ramigera | Fábio Domingos Dias Mineiro |
2019/03 - 2019/07 | Unravelling how cGAS catalyze 2’,3’-cGAMP after DNA activation. An MD and QM/MM approach | Jordi Soler i Parpal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2023 | Review Editor of the journal "Frontiers in Chemistry" |
2018 | Journal Cover in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, "Studies on neuraminidase inhibition" |