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Carlos J. S. Moreira holds a PhD degree in Plant Sciences (2021) from ITQB NOVA , a MSc in Applied Microbiology (2015) from FCUL and a BSc degree in Education in Life Sciences and Mathematics (1999) from IPB. His past multidisciplinary training (Mycology 4 years, and Plant Biology/Chemistry 5 years), which include a 15-month stay in the Univ. Zurich (IPMB UZH), is unique. He is able to endure, and rapidly adapt to complex collaborative projects in new topics. This path led him to his current position: team member (contracted) in a ONR Global funded project and in a Europe Horizon funded project (AgriLoop, in-kind) both focusing interaction of plant polyesters with fungi. His current research focuses impact of plant-derived molecules in fungal growth and in the activation of plant immunity, work that has been developed under the supervision of Prof. Cristina Silva Pereira, a leading scientist on the field of biotechnology. He has established novel methods to isolate the plant polyester cutin from the peels of fleshy fruits, and to analyse it using solution NMR to fingerprint fine alterations in the polymer caused by mutations. His work is impactful for plant biology, as shown by a recent study on suberin from soybean root (Frontiers in Chemistry 2023 co-author), and past studies on the isolation and characterization of the plant polyesters cutin and suberin (Plant Physiology 2020 first author, ACS Sus Chem & Engineering 2021 and 2022 co-author). Recently, he proved that cutin deconstruction generates a new class of PTI elicitors - COMs (Journal of Experimental Botany 2024 first author); of which public release was delayed to allow the registration of a patent (co-inventor); a valuable asset for the progress of this research line that will be strategic for future funding applications. His publication track record is solid: 8 peer-reviewed papers (the first in 2019, work done during his MSc), in the fields of Microbiology, Water treatment, Plant Polymer Chemistry and Plant-Fungi interactions. Currently he has two first author publications in proofing stage (a critical review linking cutin chemistry with function; and a research-paper on fungal interaction with suberin). He has presented his work in oral/poster communications, the most recent ones at: ITQB NOVA SCAN sessions 2024, The ONRG Synbio Portfolio Review 2024, ZMBP University of Tubingen 2023 and at the PADiBa symposium 2022. He was awarded with an EMBO Short-term fellowship to receive training in plant immunity at IPMB UZH (2019) under the supervision of Prof. Zipfel - leading scientist in the field. He has a strong teaching experience (Life Sciences and Mathematics for approximately 10 years) and has developed competencies that are essential to supervise students at diverse educational levels. He has supported the scientific training of ten MSc students (curricular unit of their MSc programs), assuming the role of supervisor for three of them. In addition, he supervised a PhD student's lab rotation project (B. Oliveira, ITQB NOVA) in a study requiring proteomics analysis of fungi (co-authored paper 2021), a BSc six-months internship (G. Gonsalves, ISEP) on fungal ecology and more recently, an Erasmus student from Thessaloniki University. Currently he is the co-supervisor of a MSc student thesis from IHMT-NOVA. He is a Co-PI of the Green-G project, awarded last year with a 50K$ and is currently organising an international conference devoted to novel bio-based communication systems. He is also the PI of two projects, a proof-of-concept from InnoValley PoC and an exploratory FCT project, both awarded in 2024 (100K€ total). The impact of his research led him to be selected to represent NOVA university at the EUTOPIA Innovation Challenge in Ljubljana - Slovenia 2024. He is fully devoted to build an independent career within the scope of the Plant-Fungi interactions field, having already proved his ability to secure competititve research funding.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carlos Jorge da Silva Moreira

Citation names

  • Moreira, Carlos J. S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C418-34B1-8642
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7708-2505

Email addresses

  • carlosmoreira@itqb.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Avenida da República, 2780-157, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Mycology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Polymer Science
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Analytical Chemistry
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/03/01 - 2021/10/26
Concluded
 International PhD program Plants for Life (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Cutin as a key player in plant immunity: From the polymer chemistry to the biological function of its composing oligomers." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously Approved
2013/09/16 - 2015/12/22
Concluded
 Mestrado em Microbiologia Aplicada (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Deciphering novel targets for antifungal drugs: ionic liquids as triggers of alternative pathways for cell wall integrity in filamentous fungi" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 out of 20
1999/09/13 - 2003/06/17
Concluded
 Professores do Ensino Básico, variante de Matemática e Ciências da Natureza (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14 out of 20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10/27 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2021/10/26 Researcher (Research) ARALAB Equipamentos Laboratorio e Electromecanica Geral Lda, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB) University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
2019/02/25 - 2019/05/25 Visiting Researcher (Research) Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH, Germany
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB) University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
2016/02/01 - 2017/02/28 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/09/01 - Current COPE – Cutin Oligomeric Plant Immune Elicitors to Improve Plant Protection
InnoValley
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Ongoing
2024/08/02 - Current COMPLETE
2023.12087.PEX
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Molecular Structural and Cellular Microbiology, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/06/01 - Current SNAIL - High performance hydrophobic suberin nanoparticles for the generation of liquid-air biphasic droplets with application in food and therapeutics
101155808
Team Member
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/03/16 - Current Green-G: A Global Congress on the Future and Realization of Biologically based and Biologically-Derived Information Technologies
GRANT14018191
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
NC State University, United States

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Office of Naval Research Global
Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2021/10/26 Cutin as a key player in plant immunity: From the polymer chemistry to the biological function of its composing oligomers
06/PlantsLife/2017
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
 ARALAB Equipamentos Laboratorio e Electromecanica Geral Lda
Concluded
2019/02/25 - 2019/05/25 Deciphering new functions of lipid polymer barriers as potential elicitors of plant immunity
8003
Research Fellow
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB) University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
 Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/02/01 - Current Connecting the dots on the transition between hyphal and mycelial-cord fungal morphotypes
GRANT13679981
Post-doc
Office of Naval Research Global, United States
2016/02/01 - 2022/02/28 Development of biomaterials through mimesis of plant defensive interfaces to fight wound infections
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647928/EU
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
 European Research Council
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Bioresources 4 Sustainability
UID/Multi/04551/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal

BioResources 4 Sustainability, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2023/01/23 - Current AgriLoop: Pushing the frontier of circular agriculture by converting residues into novel economic, social and environmental opportunities
101081776
Post-doc
Horizon 2020, Belgium
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2022/03/01 - 2023/01/31 Internal Project at ITQB NOVA with Reference ICV39321
ICV39321
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Bento, Artur; Manolis Matzapetakis; Maria João Gomes Ferreira; SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. Corresponding author: SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. "Undertanding cutin impact in Plant Immunity: Characterization of the Polymer by Solid State NMR". Paper presented in 9th ITQB PhD Students Meeting, 2018.
  2. Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Bento, Artur; Manolis Matzapetakis; Cristina Silva Pereira. Corresponding author: Cristina Silva Pereira. "Ionic Liquids as tools to unravel the chemistry of lipid polymer barriers in Planta". Paper presented in Molten Salts Discussion Group - MSDG Belfast 2018 - Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018.
  3. Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Bento, Artur; Manolis Matzapetakis; SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. Corresponding author: SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. "Unravelling the chemistry of lipid polymer barriers in planta". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Bio-Based Polymers and Composites BiPoCo 2018, 2018.
  4. Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Hartmann, Diego O.; Varela, Adélia; SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. Corresponding author: SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. "Ionic liquids as triggers of alternative pathways for cell wall integrity in filamentous fungi". Paper presented in COST CM1206 EXIL – Exchange on Ionic Liquids Workshop, 2016.
  5. Hartmann, Diego O.; Moreira, Carlos J. S.; SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. Corresponding author: SILVA PEREIRA, CRISTINA. "Elucidating the complexity of cell wall integrity pathways and sphingolipid signaling in Aspergillus nidulans: exploring ionic liquids unique stress". Paper presented in Fungal Cell Wall 2015, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Carlos J S Moreira; Rita Escórcio; Artur Bento; Marta Bjornson; Laura Herold; Ana S Tomé; Celso Martins; et al. "Cutin-Derived Oligomers Induce Hallmark Plant Immune Responses". Journal of Experimental Botany (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae254.
    10.1093/jxb/erae254
  2. Tiago M. Martins; Artur Bento; Celso Martins; Ana S. Tomé; Carlos J. S. Moreira; Cristina Silva Pereira. "Bringing up to date the toolkit for the catabolism of aromatic compounds in fungi: The unexpected 1,2,3,5-tetrahydroxybenzene central pathway". Microbial Biotechnology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14371.
    10.1111/1751-7915.14371
  3. Escórcio, Rita; Sandhu, Armaan K.; Bento, Artur; Tomé, Ana S.; Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Brözel, Volker S.; Silva Pereira, Cristina. "Purification of archetypal soybean root suberin mostly comprising alka(e)noic acids using an ionic liquid catalyst". Frontiers in Chemistry 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2023.1165234.
    10.3389/fchem.2023.1165234
  4. Rita Escórcio; Artur Bento; Ana S. Tomé; Vanessa G. Correia; Rúben Rodrigues; Carlos J. S. Moreira; Didier Marion; Bénédicte Bakan; Cristina Silva Pereira. "Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Producing Antimicrobial Cutin-Derived Oligomers from Tomato Pomace". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03437.
    10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03437
  5. Bento, Artur; Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Correia, Vanessa G.; Escórcio, Rita; Rodrigues, Rúben; Tomé, Ana S.; Geneix, Nathalie; et al. "Quantification of Structure - Property Relationships for Plant Polyesters Reveals Suberin and Cutin Idiosyncrasies". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9 47 (2021): 15780-15792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c04733.
    10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c04733
  6. Oliveira, B.R.; Marques, A.P.; Ressurreição, M.; Moreira, C.J.S.; S. Pereira, C.; B. Crespo, M.T.; Pereira, V.J.. "Inactivation of Aspergillus species in real water matrices using medium pressure mercury lamps". Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 221 (2021): 112242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2021.112242.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2021.112242
  7. Moreira, Carlos J.S.; Bento, Artur; Pais, Joana; Petit, Johann; Escórcio, Rita; Correia, Vanessa G.; Pinheiro, Ângela; et al. "An Ionic Liquid Extraction That Preserves the Molecular Structure of Cutin Shown by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance". Plant Physiology 184 2 (2020): 592-606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.20.01049.
    Open access • Published • 10.1104/pp.20.01049
  8. Hartmann, Diego O.; Piontkivska, Daryna; Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Silva Pereira, Cristina. "Ionic Liquids Chemical Stress Triggers Sphingoid Base Accumulation in Aspergillus nidulans". Frontiers in Microbiology 10 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00864.
    Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00864
Preprint
  1. Moreira, Carlos J.S.; Escórcio, Rita; Bento, Artur; Bjornson, Marta; Tomé, Ana S.; Martins, Celso; Fanuel, Mathieu; et al. "Cutin-Derived Oligomers Act as Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns inArabidopsis thaliana". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.16.540997.
    10.1101/2023.05.16.540997
  2. Moreira, Carlos J.S.; Bento, Artur; Pais, Joana; Petit, Johann; Escórcio, Rita; Correia, Vanessa G.; Pinheiro, Ângela; et al. "Novel ionic liquids-based extraction method that preserves molecular structure from cutin". 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.01.127837.
    10.1101/2020.06.01.127837
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Cutin as a key player in plant immunity: from the polymer chemistry to the biological function of its composing oligomers". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, 2021.
  2. "Deciphering novel targets for antifungal drugs: ionic liquids as triggers of alternative pathways for cell wall integrity in filamentous fungi". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2015.

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork
  1. Bento, Artur; Moreira, Carlos J. S.; Correia, Vanessa G.. Cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering journal (2021, vol 9, Issue 47)..
  2. Escórcio, Rita; Bento, Artur; Ana S. Tomé; Correia, Vanessa G.; Rodrigues, Rúben; Moreira, Carlos J. S.. Cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering journal (2022, vol 10, Issue 34)..

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent
  1. 2023. "Cutin oligomer act as damage-associated patterns eliciting plant immunity".
    Protected
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/02 Fungi and Plants - How they perceive each other! SCAN Seminars at ITQB NOVA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Oeiras, Portugal)
2024/09/11 Connecting the dots on the transition between hyphal and mycelial cord fungal morphotypes. ONRG Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology Portfolio review
Office of Naval Research Global (London, United Kingdom)
2023/12/08 Cutin Oligomers - COMs: A Novel Class of Plant Immune Elicitors Seminar
Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) - University of Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany)
2022/09/14 Cutin depolymerisation generates oligomeric structures able to trigger plant immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers - PADiBA 2022
University of Dundee (Dundee, United Kingdom)
2021/02/17 Cutin derived oligomers act as immune elicitors in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana 11th ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (Oeiras, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current Plant polymers derived molecules as a novel class of biologicals to fight Aspergilli dissemination.
Co-supervisor
 Ciências Biomédicas (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2024/01/15 - 2024/06/30 Unveiling the mechanisms controlling the transition between hyphal and mycelial-cord fungal morphotypes.
Co-supervisor
 Erasmus Internship (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2022/01/10 - 2022/07/08 (PT) Biopolímeros vegetais e o impacto dos fungos filamentosos na sua degradação. (EN) Plant biopolymers and the impact of filamentous fungi in their degradation.
Co-supervisor
 Biorrecursos (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2021/06/14 - 2021/06/18 Exploring the immune eliciting effect of cutin degradation molecules in Plants.
Co-supervisor
 Biociências Moleculares - Lab Rotation (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2027/09/27 European Researchers Night 2024 took place at the Oeiras Marina. A Science fair with the aim of bringing science closer to society. This science festival counted with the participation of more than 40 scientific institutions and several projects of the Municipality of Oeiras. (2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27)
Exhibition (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2024/04/24 - 2025/04/24 Organization of the Green-G 2025 Conference, taking place in Lisbon Portugal between the 22nd and the 24th of April. The motto of the event is: "Connecting all plants on earth for telecommunications and information management." We aim at discussing the future of our telecommunication systems, looking for biobased alternatives focused on the potentialities of plant communication. By merging technological advance with nature preservation we envision a future where humans and nature are connected, with plants powering our communication networks. (2025/04/22 - 2025/04/24)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2024/12/03 - 2025/03/15 ITQB NOVA Open Day 2025 - A day in which the institute opens the door to the community full of activities, a science fair and talks in the auditorium. This year it is celebrated on the 15th of March. (2025/03/15 - 2025/03/15)
Exhibition (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2024/01/15 - 2024/03/11 Satellite event within the scope of the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival 2024, taking place at ITQB NOVA - Oeiras, Portugal. This science fair had the main aim of raising the scientific literacy of young students on the aspects of Bioeconomy, Agro-industrial residues valorisation and environment protection. (2024/03/11 - 2024/03/11)
Festival (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/11/15 - 2017/11/17 8th ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting - Annual meeting where PhD students present the last developments of their PhD projects through poster or oral presentations to the ITQB NOVA scientific community. This meeting also counts with invited speakers that are references in their scientific fields. (2017/11/15 - 2017/11/17)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/10/20 - 2017/10/21 ITQB NOVA PhD students retreat - Annual event that gathers students from the Doctoral programs of ITQB NOVA. In this event, first year PhD students can meet students from other years, share experiences and doubts. Also some team building activities are performed and contact with ITQB NOVA alumni. (2017/10/20 - 2017/10/21)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/02/14 - 2025/02/21 Participation on the NOVA Doctoral School Training Course in Design Thinking. (Approved 17 out of 20).
Workshop
 Design Thinking Course
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/11/04 - 2025/02/07 Course - "Create - Protect - Innovate: Bringing ideas to market (Entry level) | AU03-2024". Approved (95 out of 100). A practical and self-paced course on the essentials of Intelectual Property protection, Patent registration and strategies for IP protection. A mix of mandatory activities, forum discussions, self-paced study and live Master Classes. At the end a final exam is required to access the course certificate.
Europäisches Patentamt, Germany
2024/11/20 - 2024/11/29 Participation in the LS4FUTURE Online Course “Applying for European Funding – Essential Tools for Researchers”, hosted by Chaperone. In this course we were devoted to specific training on Advanced Grant Writing for European Research Funding. A practical course devoting hands-on exercises to improve the Excelence, Impact and Implementation sections of application for Horizon Europe Calls.
Other
2024/11/18 - 2024/11/18 Visit to a school within the scope of the activity "A Scientist Goes to School". This activity was aimed at highschool students from the 11th grade studying sciences. Activities developed focused on creating awareness of our complex are Plant-Fungi interactions and how they perceive each other. Activities included demonstrations and debate with the students. This activity was organised by ITQB NOVA, taking place at Colégio José Álvaro Vidal - Alverca, Portugal. Total of 23 students and 3 teachers.
Other
 O Cientista vai à Escola - A Scientist goes to School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2024/10/14 - 2024/10/17 Selected participant to represent Universidade Nova de Lisboa on the EUTOPIA Innovation Challenge for Researchers 2024 in Ljubljana - Slovenia. A 4-days training programme organised in collaboration with the Slovenia's Science and Innovation Festival UNI.MINDS, connecting researchers and industry and provide ample opportunities for meeting companies of all sizes, including start-ups and fellow researchers from Eutopia Universities. Additionally, participants can team up to solve challenges presented by selected Slovenian companies.
Workshop
 EUTOPIA Innovation Challenge for Researchers 2024
Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia
2024/05/15 - 2024/05/15 Visit to a school within the scope of the activity "A Scientist Goes to School". This activity was aimed at 3rd grade students. Activities developed focused on creating awareness of what is the work of a scientist. Experiments were performed, allowing the young students to become scientists for an hour at their classroom. The activity was organised by ITQB NOVA, but took place at Escola Básica Dr. Sousa Martins - Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. Total of 22 students and 1 teacher.
Other
 O Cientista vai à Escola - A Scientist goes to School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2024/04/04 - 2024/04/04 I was responsible for the dinamization of a Workshop on Sustainability and Circular Economy, targeting a group of 26 high school students and 4 monitors/teachers from the Municipality of Oeiras. Apart from the classroom activities the students were also involved in hands-on experiments on a teaching lab at ITQB NOVA.
Workshop
 Spring Science
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2024/02/22 - 2024/02/22 Visit to a school within the scope of the activity "A Scientist Goes to School". This activity was aimed at 6th grade students. Activities developed focused on creating awareness of what is the work of a scientist. Experiments were performed, allowing the young students to become scientists for an hour during a Life Sciences class. The activity was organised by ITQB NOVA, but took place at Escola Básica de São Julião da Barra - Oeiras, Portugal. Total of 29 students and 1 teacher.
Other
 O Cientista vai à Escola - A Scientist goes to School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2024/02/20 - 2024/02/20 Visit to a school group within the scope of the activity "A Scientist Goes to School". This activity was aimed at young children with ages ranging from 6 to 12 years old (1st to 5th grade). Activities developed focused on creating awareness of what is the work of scientist. Some fun experiments were performed, allowing the young students to become scientists for a couple of hours. The activity was organised by ITQB NOVA, but took place at Espaço Jovem Carnaxide - Carnaxide - Portugal. Total of 14 students and 2 teachers.
Other
 O Cientista vai à Escola - A Scientist goes to School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Espaço Jovem de Carnaxide, Portugal
2024/02/02 - 2024/02/02 Participation in the institutional activity "Visitas ao ITQB - Visits to ITQB" whitin the scope of the Municipal initiative Oeiras Educa. The aim of my participation was to make a guided visit to the Applied and Environmental Mycology Lab, to raise awareness on how is the daily activity of a Mycology & Biotechnology researcher. The main lines of research were also presented to the students. In total two highschool classes from Miraflores visited the lab (total of 24 students and 2 teachers).
Other
 (PT) Visitas ao ITQB - (EN) Visits to ITQB - Oeiras Educa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2023/01/24 - 2023/01/26 Participation in the Kick-Off Meeting of the AgriLoop project (Pushing the frontier of circular agriculture by converting residues into novel economic, social, and environmental opportunities) as a member of the Team of Work Package 2. This project aims to extend the agricultural production value of the EU and China by eco-efficiently upgrading underexploited residues into a portfolio of high-added-value bio-products able to generate new bio-based markets. This first meeting allowed to meet with collaborators and organize implementation steps.
Meeting
Institut National de Recherche pour l¿Agriculture l¿Alimentation et l¿Environnement Centre Occitanie-Montpellier, France
2022/09/19 - 2022/09/19 COLIFE MEETING 2022 The main goal of the meeting was to bring the community together, give an overview of what exists in all COLife institutes in terms of Research and Technological expertise, and have thematic discussions on topics (scientific and beyond) that are of interest for all COLife institutes (scientific themes, open science, etc). A combination of scientific talks, technological and working group pitches, as well as round table discussions took place on this meeting.
Meeting
 COLIFE MEETING 2022
COLife - Collaboration for Life Sciences Lisbon & Oeiras, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/03/05 A practical course covering the main characteristics of linux applied to biology, the structure and navigation of the Linux file system, Linux commands to manipulate and interrogate data file, running simple shell scripts in order to automate processing of data and use of R for data analysis and visualisation. Graded 97 out of 100.
Other
 Bioinformatics for Biologists: An Introduction to Linux, Bash Scripting, and R
Wellcome Genome Campus, United Kingdom
2020/12/02 - 2020/12/04 The PSC Online symposium 2020 brings the international plant science community together, highlighting the manifold interactions plants are engaged in, at both molecular and environmental levels.
Symposium
Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Switzerland
2019/09/17 - 2019/09/17 Participation in the International Microorganism Day at the Gardens of Palácio Marquês Pombal, Oeiras (Sociedade Portuguesa Microbiologia)
Other
 International Microorganism Day
2018/09/17 - 2018/09/17 Participation in the International Microorganism Day at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Sociedade Portuguesa Microbiologia)
Other
 International Microorganism Day
2016/11/01 - 2017/11/30 Participation in several activities within the scope of "A Scientist goes to School", contributing to disseminate and raise awareness of young students to the important role of science in society, and to the main scientific activities undertaken by scientists (e.g. typical day at a lab, daily tasks).
Other
 O Cientista vai à Escola - A Scientist goes to School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/09/29 - 2017/09/29 Participation in the European Researchers Night 2017 at Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Lisbon, devoted to the subject The Future. Representing ITQB NOVA and Cristina Silva Pereira’s Lab presenting possible application of Plant biopolymers in wound healing and developing activities to make the general audience aware of the importance of biopolymers in our future.
Other
 European Researchers Night
2017/05/27 - 2017/05/27 Participation in the ITQB NOVA Open Day, under the scope of the World Metrology Day and devoted to the subject of Measurement Scales, collaborating with the Dendrochronology stand.
Other
 ITQB NOVA Open Day
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/10/02 - 2024/10/30 Future Foods (2666-8335) Elsevier

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/07/21 Interview to the newspaper Expresso, published on the 21st of July 2023, focused on the project awarded within the scope of my participation in the Serendipity Collective Initiative (Green-G). Expresso

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/04/02 - 2024/04/02 Job Shadowing on Plant Derived Bioactive Molecules Mafalda Antunes and Pedro Santos
2023/05/29 - 2023/06/02 Research Training Curricular Unit - Molecular Biosciences (MolBioS) PhD Program - ITQB NOVA MolBioS PhD Program - 2023 Class - 23 PhD Students
2018/09 - 2019/10 In the search of novel bioplastics: Exploiting bio & chemical tools to fine tune the physicochemical properties of plant polyesters Rita José Quintal Escórcio
2018/05 - 2018/05 Design of cutin-based functional polymers Rita Escórcio and Olena Dorosh
2017/02 - 2017/02 Genetic engineering in filamentous fungi using the gene replacement method Diana Moita, Inês Saraiva, Marta Silva and Luís Sousa
2016/03 - 2016/03 Protein extraction and quantification in filamentous fungi Beatriz Oliveira
2016/02 - 2016/02 RNA extraction and quantification Daryna Piontkivska and Diana Santos

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/09/24 - 2024/10/14 Scientific review of a grant proposal for the National Science Center, Poland within the scope of the OPUS 27 Funding Scheme. Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland
2023/10/18 - 2023/10/20 Invited evaluator for the 13th ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting, with the responsability to evaluate the oral presentations of six PhD candidates in their final year. The presentations belonged to the Good Helth and Well-being pannel. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 InnoValley PoC 3rd Edition
Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2023 Serendipity Collective
Office of Naval Research Global, United States

SPRIND Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, Germany

Other distinction

2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowship 8003
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH, Germany
2017 PhD Contract - Mixed Fellowship
ARALAB Equipamentos Laboratorio e Electromecanica Geral Lda, Portugal
2016 Mobility Grant COST CM1206 EXIL (ECOST-MEETING-CM1206-170416-066522)
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium