Joana Rodrigues received her M.Sc. (2010) degree in physics and her PhD (2015) degree in nanoscience and nanotechnology from the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal, where she is currently working as a Researcher. She has been a member of i3N – Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication since 2010. Her research interests focus on the field of materials' growth using laser assisted techniques and the optical characterisation of low-dimensional wide bandgap semiconductors. At the moment, her research is devoted to the development of nanomaterials to be used as transducer platforms in cost-effective and highly sensitive sensors for the detection of relevant biomedical analytes, as well as environmental-related parameters.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0424-3248

Email: joana.catarina@ua.pt

Florinda Mendes da Costa is an associate professor at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering at the University of Aveiro. Her current research areas are laser processing materials (laser floating zone, laser surface treatment, pulsed laser ablation in liquids) for energy and optoelectronic applications and hybrid carbon-based materials (CVD diamond, carbon nanotubes and graphene) for electronic and biomedical applications.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8729-714X

Email: flor@ua.pt

Teresa Monteiro is an associate professor with aggregation at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro and a full member of i3N – Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. Her main area of research is related to the optical characterisation of wide bandgap materials (undoped and intentionally doped), including nitrides and oxides from bulk to low dimensional structures.

ORCID: 0000-0001-6945-2759

Email: tita@ua.pt

António Fernandes received his physics degree from Universidade de Aveiro in 1996. Since then, he has worked in the same institution as a high technician supporting research activities. His current research is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterisation and applications of carbon and nanocarbon materials (diamond, CNT, graphene and their hybrid combinations), produced mainly by CVD processes, along with materials processing by laser and their characterisation, namely by Raman spectroscopy. He also promotes science outreach initiatives, presenting regularly the physics show of his department.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4376-5594

Email: toze2@ua.pt

Armando Neves received his PhD in Physics (Condensed Matter Physics) from University of Aveiro in 1994. He is an associated professor in the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro. He published over 95 papers in international SCI peer reviewed journals, 1 book chapters and co-edited one review book. He is the author of over 100 communications at international conferences, 10 of them invited talks. His scientific production realized through collaborative projects and networks (including EU NoE and TN) involvesmore than 80 distinct worldwide co-authors. His research interests include optical, electronic and magnetic properties of semiconductor nanostructures and quantum dots, with application in electronics and optoelectronics; rare earth doped oxides for optoelectronics applications; doped nanoparticles for biosensors and advanced materials for solar cells.

ORCID: 0000-0002-1190-1475

Email: armando@ua.pt

Luis is an auxiliary professor at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro and a full member of i3N – Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. Is current research areas include synthesis, spectroscopic and optical characterisation of wide band gap inorganic materials, with focus on oxide nano-powders doped with rare earths ions and development of sensing devices based on optical response of the transductor material.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2554-6694

Email: lrino@ua.pt

Isabel Henriques is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra. She is also a member of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, where she leads the “Microbial and Cell Biology Lab”. Until 2018 she was the PI of CESAM’s Research Line “Environmental Biology and Health”. She earned her PhD in Biology in 2006 from the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal. She is a microbiologist and her research has been oriented to address the ecology of antibiotic resistance in the environment. A main interest has also been the impact of global changes in the microbiome (including soil and water microbiome) and microbiomes’ role in adaptation of organisms (plants and animals) to stressors.

ORCID: 0000-0001-7717-4939

Email: ihenriques@ua.pt

Mara G. Freire is a Coordinator Researcher at CICECO, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, the Coordinator of Group 5 - Biomedic and Biomimetic Materials - within CICECO, and member of Scientific Council of University of Aveiro and of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. In addition to other projects and awards, in 2014 Freire was awarded with a European Research Council (ERC) Grant. Her main research interests comprise the development of sustainable separation platforms for added-value compounds with therapeutic properties.

Websites

Institutional website: http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/MaraFreire

Scopus Author ID: 7102299235

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8895-0614

Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8458-2008

Email: maragfreire@ua.pt

Sónia O. Pereira is a post-doctoral researcher at i3N – Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication & Department of Physics at University of Aveiro, since 2017. She holds LSc (2009) and MSc (2011) in Biotechnology and completed the PhD in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology in July 2016 at the same institution - CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials & Department of Chemistry at University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interest focuses on the synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials towards biomedical applications.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4174-7253

Ciência ID: 1B13-CC2F-1D20

Email: sonia.pereira@ua.pt

Alexandre Faia Carvalho is a PhD student in the Doctoral Program of Engineering Physics from the University of Aveiro and associated to the i3N – Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication and Department of Physics at University of Aveiro. He has a bachelor (2013) and master’s degree (2015) in Engineering Physics at University of Aveiro, Portugal. His research interests range from synthesis and characterization of carbon nanostructures, specially graphene and graphene-based materials, to the development of sensors and actuators, as well as their integration in systems.

ORCID: 0000-0002-7138-828X

Email: alexandre.carvalho@ua.pt

Marguerita Rosa is currently a Chemical Engineering PhD student at CICECO, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, included in the Group 5 - Biomedic and Biomimetic Materials. Marguerita concluded her MSc degree in 2017 in the Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology field. Her main interest is the development of platforms or products that could have a positive impact in human’s health, mainly through biotechnology and chemistry.

Websites

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5648-0045

Link Site CICECO: http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/index.php?menu=221&language=eng&tabela=pessoaldetail&user=1601

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margueritarosa/

Email: marguerita.rosa@ua.pt

Julia Zanoni finished her MSc in Physics Engineering at the University of Aveiro (UA) in 2019. Currently, she is a grant holder of the NANOBIOSENSE project, focused on the development and characterization of ZnO nanostructures and ZnO/nanocarbon composites for biosensing applications. Julia also holds a BSc degree in Physics at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil. There she worked with instrumentation, nanoscience and nanotechnology, being financed by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Cnpq).

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-zanoni/

Email: julia.ines@ua.pt

Jorge Moura finished his MSc in Physics Engineering at the University of Aveiro (UA) in 2019. He worked as a grant holder of the NANOBIOSENSE project, focused on the development and characterization of ZnO nanostructures and ZnO/nanocarbon composites for biosensing applications, where we worked mostly on the implementation of solutions to improve the optical and electrochemical measuring systems, as well as on the materials’ characterization.

Email: jorgemoura@ua.pt

Mariana Brás finished her MSc in Physics Engineering at the University of Aveiro in 2021, in which she devoted her master thesis on the development of ZnO-nanostructured based biosensors for the detection of environmental analytes.

Linkedin:www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-brás

Email: bmariana@ua.pt

Carolina Rodrigues is a Physics Engineering student at the University of Aveiro. She is developing a MSc thesis entitled "Optical biosensors for the detection of biomedical analytes", devoted to the detection of analytes as HSA and PSA. She is currently finishing her dissertation.

Email: carolina.isa@ua.pt

Nicole Yaacoub is studying Physics Engineering at the University of Aveiro. She is developing a MSc thesis devoted to the study of the effect of the buffer solutions on the ZnO stability and the viability of using zinc phosphate as a transducer in biosensing devices.

Email: nicoleyaacoub@ua.pt