Teaching activity
- Invited Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Laboratories) 2021/2022, 1st Semester, for Aerospace Engineering, Undergraduate Programme, at Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa. 8h/week; 63 students.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Laboratories) 2020/2021, 1st Semester, for Integrated Master in Aerospace Engineering, MEAer, at Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa. 6 h/week; 96 students;
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Laboratories) 2019/2020, 1st Semester, for Licenciatura in Geological and Mining Engineering, LEGM; and Integrated Master in Civil Engineering, MEC, at IST, IL. 6 h/week; 91 students.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Laboratories and Theoretical and Practical classes) 2018/2019, 1st Semester, for Licenciatura in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, LENO; and Integrated Master in Aerospace Engineering, MEAer, at IST, UL. 6 h/week; ~80 students.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Laboratories) 2017/2018, 1st Semester, for Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST, UL. 6 h/week; 82 students.
Supervisions
PhD (3rd cycle)
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 316 citations in Web of Science and 383 in Google Scholar in a very short period. Most cited paper in Vacuum since 2012, distant from the second.
Master (2nd cycle)
- 2020 – 2021: Co-supervisor of Diogo Alexandre Cartaxo Sousa in the frame of the 3rd cycle curricular unit “Advanced Experimental Techniques (and Methodologies)”, 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 in the frame of the 3rd cycle curricular unit “Advanced Experimental Techniques (and Methodologies)”, 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.
- 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”.
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 316 citations in Web of Science and 383 in Google Scholar in a very short period. Most cited paper in Vacuum since 2012, distant from the second.
- 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.
Master (2nd cycle)
- 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: work in progress.
Monitoring
- 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
- In the last few years (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 CQFM’s laboratory (group 2) 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: 61, 68, 78, 80, 81, 86, 87, 89] (+ 1 being prepared); 6 communications in national and international scientific meetings [please check the following references: O25, O29, O35, O37, O38, O40, P36, P39]. 2 PhD theses concluded and 1 is in progress.
