Invited Speakers
Paulo Brito
Paulo Sérgio Duque de Brito has a degree in chemical engineering, Processes and Industry specialization, in the Technical Superior Institute; has a master’s degree in “Corrosion Science and Engineering” by UMIST, Manchester University; is a PhD in Chemical Engineering, by the Superior Technical Institute in the electrochemical – on fuel cells. He has also an MBA – Master of Business and Administration.
Currently, he is a Coordinator Teacher in the Superior School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), where he is also the President of the Technologies and Design Department. He is also, Institutional Coordinator for I&DT of IPP and responsible for C3i – Investigation and Innovation Interdisciplinary Coordination.
The main areas he investigates are related with Bioenergy, waste environmental treatments, materials corrosion and energy galvanic production.
He has published more than 150 works, in books, articles and conferences presentations.
Maria Santos
MMM Santos graduated in Applied Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon in 1999. After a short period at the University Paris-Sud XI (Orsay, France) working in catalysis, she started a PhD in the field of Indolocarbazole synthesis at Ana Lobo’s research group (New University of Lisbon, 2000-2004). In 2004, she was awarded a post-doctoral FCT fellowship to work in asymmetric synthesis of alkaloids at the Amat-Bosch’s research group (University of Barcelona, Spain). In 2006, she shifted her research focus to medicinal chemistry and returned to Portugal for a post doc at the group of Rui Moreira of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon (FFUL). Her independent career started in 2008, when she was hired as Assistant Researcher at FFUL through the international tender Ciência 2007 programme. In 2013, she was awarded a FCT investigator grant and in 2018 a CEEC individual grant. In the end of 2020, MMM Santos started an assistant professor position at the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicines Department of FFUL. The ultimate goal of her research group is the development of new biologically active scaffolds, with adequate pharmacological properties, to target important therapeutic targets (e.g. p53, NMDA receptors) and diseases (e.g. cancer, malaria).
Luisa De Cola
Luisa De Cola is, since end of 2020, Professor at the University of Milano and director of a unit at the Instituto Mario Negri. She is also part time scientist at the INT-KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.
She was born in Messina, Italy, where she studied chemistry. After a post-doc in USA she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (1990). In 1998 she joined the University of Amsterdam as Full Professor and in 2004 she moved to the University of Muenster, Germany. In 2012 she accepted a call from University of Strasbourg as chair of Supramolecular and Bio-Material Chemistry. In 2022 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa from Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo Santander, Spain. She is recipients of several awards, including the Izatt–Christensen prize in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, the Natta Medal from the SCI. She was nominated “Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur” and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. In 2021 she has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2021.
Her main interests are luminescent and electroluminescent systems and their assemblies,and nano-, porous and soft structures for biomedical applications.
Mariette M. Pereira
Mariette M. Pereira is a Full Professor in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at University of Coimbra (Portugal). She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1992 at University of Coimbra and worked as Fellow Assistant at Universities of Liverpool in 1993 and Autònoma de Barcelona in 1998. She was Director of the Chemistry Research Laboratory of pharmaceutical spin-off Luzitin SA, until 2015.
Her research interests are focused on the development of sustainable methodologies for the synthesis of tetrapyrrolic macrocycle-based photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy of cancer and photodynamic inactivation of microorganisms; design and synthesis of chemical entities for medical imaging; synthesis of ligands and catalysts aiming the activation of small gas molecules (CO, H2, CO2 and O2) for preparation of value-added products; development of hybrid materials for catalysis, environmental remediation and medicinal chemistry.
She published ca. 180 peer-reviewed papers, 20 books/book chapters and she is inventor of 6 patents.