[From 2021 to 2024] Invited Assistant Professor of General Chemistry (Laboratories), 1st Period, for Licenciatura in Aerospace Engineering (LEAer) and Licenciatura in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (LENO) at DEQ, IST.
2021/2022: 8 h/week; 63 students. Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from IST, University of Lisbon (Diploma de Excelência no Ensino) QUC survey: 9.00/9.00; 2022/2023: 8 h/week; 65 students. Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from IST, University of Lisbon (Diploma de Excelência no Ensino) QUC survey: 9.00/9.00; 2023/2024: 8 h/week; 60 students.
[From 2017 to 2021] (not contrated) Assistant Professor of General Chemistry (Laboratories and Theoretical and Practical classes), 1st Semester, for Integrated Master in Aerospace Engineering (MEAer), Integrated Master in Civil Engineering (MEC), Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MEEC), Licenciatura in Geological and Mining Engineering, (LEGM) and LENO at DEQ, IST.
2020/2021: 6 h/week; 96 students. QUC survey: 8.94/9.00; 2019/2020: 6 h/week; 91 students. Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from IST, University of Lisbon (Diploma de Excelência no Ensino) QUC survey: 9.00/9.00; 2018/2019: 6 h/week; 80 students. Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from IST, University of Lisbon (Diploma de Excelência no Ensino) QUC surveys: 9.00/9.00 for LENO, 8.38/9.00 and 7.44/9.00 for MEAer; 2017/2018: 6 h/week; 82 students. QUC survey: 8.38/9.00.
2012 – 2016: Co-supervisor of Ana Patrícia Matos Carapeto, FCT PhD student (SFRH/BD/75734/2011) with the project/thesis entitled “Production and functionalization of ultra-thin films of polysaccharides for applications in sensor devices”. IST-UL. Final Grade: “Aprovada com distinção”.
Scientific outcomes: 1 PhD thesis; 11 published papers in international journals with peer-review [please check the following references above: 28, 41, 50, 53, 56, 59, 71, 77, 78, 80, 94]; 19 communications in national and international scientific meetings [please check the following references above: O16, O19, O26, O29, O30, O35, O40, P24-P28, P31-P35, P37, P38]; 1 paper, reference [28], was featured as Editor’s Choice and included by invitation in: http://www.xpsfitting.com/search/label/Silver. This paper presents new insights on Ag oxidation states assignments. Although, Ag XPS spectra interpretation is subject of a wide controversy within the spectroscopists community, this paper has been well accepted having 442 citations in Web of Science and 509 in Google Scholar. Most cited paper in Vacuum since 2012.
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Rodrigo Hilario (ist429804) with the project entitled “Metal composites” IST-UL. May 2024.
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Ricardo Ferreira (ist428434) with the project entitled “Metal-based zeolites for Ethylene removal – a XPS study” IST-UL. In progress.
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Hugo Lapa (ist178297) with the project entitled “Organometallic catalyst” IST-UL. In progress.
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Flávia Rodrigues (ist1101149) with the project entitled “Hybrid membranes based on Cellulose Acetate” IST-UL. In progress.
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Joana Martinho (ist428710) with the project entitled “Oxidative coupling of methane over nanostructured lanthanide-based ternary oxides aiming the production of C2 hydrocarbons” IST-UL. Report in revision.
2022 - 2023: Supervisor of Mário Almeida (ist428219) with the project entitled “X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Characterization of zinc manganese oxide nanoparticles” IST-UL. Final Grade: 18.
2020 – 2021: Co-supervisor of Diogo Alexandre Cartaxo Sousa with the project entitled “Characterization of a Calix[4]arene-Oxacyclophane-Carbazole Architecture by XPS”. IST-UL. Final Grade: 19.
2020 – 2021: Co-supervisor of Ivy Lapetaji Librando with the project entitled “Surface analysis of functionalized cotton with titania and silver or silver halide nanoparticles by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)”. IST-UL. Final Grade: 17.
Curricular unit: Research Laboratories
2023 - 2024: Supervisor of Rodrigo da Silva Braga (ist1101179) with the project entitled “XPS analysis of transition metal carbonates anchored on co-doped graphene framework” IST-UL. Report in revision.
2010 ‒ 2012: Co-supervisor of Ana Patrícia Matos Carapeto, PhD student with a research fellowship (BL 309/2010 – IST) with the project entitled “Crescimento de nanopartículas metálicas em superfícies poliméricas”. IST-UTL.
2022 – 2023: Supervisor of Beatriz Fernandes Abreu (89978), student of Chemical Engineering (MSc programme), with the MSc project entitled “Bioplásticos para fins industriais”. IST-UL. Final Grade: 18.
2021 – 2022: Supervisor of Alexandra Sofia Cruz de Sousa, student of Chemical Engineering (MSc programme), with the MSc project entitled “Self-cleaning Textiles”. IST-UL. Final Grade: 19.
2022: Supervision of data acquisition at Laboratoire de Sciences des Matériaux et Environnement, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, Tunisia, March 2022 – Cotton modification aiming bactericide and photocatalytic textile surfaces.
Scientific outcome: Included in MSc thesis.
Estágios de Verão do DEQ (EstVerDEq 2019), Summer training period at the Department of Chemical Engineering at IST on “Análise de superfícies por espectroscopia de fotoelectrão de raios-X (XPS)”. Supervision of Rafaela Cavadas, undergraduate student of Applied Chemistry from FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Scientific outcome: Pitch of the work done at IST
During the period 2015–2018, in particular in the frame of the NATO project “CATALTEX”, and also in collaboration (started by A.M. Ferraria) with a team from Algeria, 3 PhD students came for different training periods to the iBB (former CQFM’s) laboratory (group BSIRG) and were co-supervised by A.M. Ferraria: Marwa Abid and Amira Errokh, from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, and Asma Sedik, from the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria.
Scientific outcomes: Since 2015, 8 published papers in international journals with peer-review [please check the following references above: 61, 68, 78, 80, 81, 86, 87, 89] (+ 1 submitted); 6 communications in national and international scientific meetings [please check the following references above: O25, O29, O35, O37, O38, O40, P36, P39]. 3 PhD theses concluded.