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Group Members


   Manuel Nunes da Ponte

    Head of the group
    Thermodynamics of Liquid Solutions and on Supercritical Fluid Extraction
   
    mnponte@itqb.unl.pt



Born: Goa, India, 1949/12/24, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, IST, Technical University of Lisbon (1971)
                
PhD, IST (1977), two-year stay (1975-76) at the  Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, UK

Career: Visiting Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, USA1983/84

1988-92 Member of the Sub-Committee on Thermodynamic Data of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

1989-94 Portuguese representative to the Technical Committee on Chemistry of the COST Programme.

1996-2002 Portuguese representative in the EUREKA Initiative

Member of the Scientific Committees of the 3rd, 4th and 6th International Symposia on Supercritical Fluids, (Strasbourg, Oct. 1994, Sendai, May 1997, Versailles 2003)

Head of the Chemistry Department of FCT/UNL from 1994 to 1997. Director of Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from 1999 to 2002.

Professor of Physical Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Awards: Gulbenkian Prize of Science and Technology 1992, Ferreira da Silva Prize 1995  of the Portuguese Chemical Society

 
   Pedro Simões

   Assistant professor
   Application of supercritical fluids to separation processes in Chemical Engineering

   pcs@dq.fct.unl.pt


Born: Lisboa, 1963/02/14, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering,  IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 1986

PhD in Chemical Engineering , FCT-UNL, 1993

one-year stay at the Thermal Separation Processes Laboratory, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany

Career:  Visiting research fellow, Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand, 2000
Professor of chemical engineering at UNL

Awards: Gulbenkian Prize of Science and Technology 1992, Honour reference



   Ana Aguiar-Ricardo

   Assistant professor
   Phase-behaviour of critical or near critical mixtures. Polymer synthesis and materials processing in scCO2

   aar@dq.fct.unl.pt


Born: Lisboa, 1964/08/17, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering,  IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 1987

PhD in Chemistry-Physical chemistry , FCT-UNL, 1994

Post-Doc position in Department of Chemistry, Nottingham University, UK

Career: Assistant at the Chemistry Department of FCT-UNL, 1987-1994


   Catarina Duarte

   Senior researcher
   Extraction of bioactive compounds from natural raw material, impregnation of pharmaceuticals in bio-carriers
 
    cduarte@itqb.unl.pt


Born: Lisboa  1968/02/07, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Applied Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1991

PhD in Physical chemistry, UNL 1997  - "Fundamental thermodynamics: measurement of second and third virial coefficients of binary mixtures"

Post-Doc position within the scope of the european Project: [FAIR-ST8009 (c/ DG XII - UE)] EXTEN - Volume Extraction and Encapsulation of Substances used as Flavour Chemicals, Pharmaceutical Raw Substances, Biochemicals and Enzymatic Systems] 1998-1999

Career:  Junior Researcher at UNL- " Research on organic synthesis of glucose derivatives" , 1990-1991
Assistant Professor at UNL 1999-2002   


   Anna Banet
 
   Post-doc
   Biphasic Hydrogenation and Oxidation of Terpenes in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

   banet@itqb.unl.pt


Born: Reus, Spain, 1972/11/21, Nationality: Spanish

Education: Degree in Chemistry - Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), 1996

ERASMUS studentship - Research project on Inorganic Chemistry – Organometallics -“Preparation of Quiral Ligands and its Application to Metal Transition Catalysis for Asymmetric Hydroformylation”, The University of Liverpool, Supervisor: Dr. J.A. Iggo, 1996

PhD in Chemistry – Catalysis, “Hydroformylation of Higher and Functionalised Olefins in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide “, The University of Liverpool, Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, Supervisor: Dr. J. Xiao, 2000

Career:  Post-doctoral position in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. “Dispersion Polymerisation of Diethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide", 2001

Post-doctoral position "Spectroscopic Monitoring of Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Fluids: The Optimization of Clean Processes for Clean Chemistry", 2002


  Teresa Casimiro

   Post-doc
   Reactions in supercritical media, in particular polymerisation.Impregnation of drugs in polymers and cyclodextrins

   teresa.casimiro@dq.fct.unl.pt

Born: Lisboa 1974/05/27, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1997

PhD in Chemical Engineering - "Chemical Synthesis and Phase Behaviour in scCO2", UNL, 2003


   Joana Fonseca

   Post-doc

  jfonseca@itqb.un.pt


Born: Luanda, Angola 1973/08/15, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1996

PhD in Chemical Engineering - "Vapour- liquid equilibrium measurment and emulsion formation in ScCO2", ITQB, 2003

Career: Work in Sonae Indústria - Impregnation of paper by melamine and ureic resins, 1996-1998

Junior researcher at UNL - “Organic syntheses of compounds with biological interest”,1998-1999


   Rui Ruivo
 
   Post-doc
   Extraction of natural compounds: natural anti-oxidants

   rui.ruivo@dq.fct.unl.pt


Born: Beja, 1974/04/29, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, FCT-UNL, 1997

PhD in Chemical Engineering  - "Dynamic Studies of a Supercritical Exraction Process", FCT-UNL, 2003


  Vesna Najdanovic-Visak

   PhD student
   Excess properties and liquid-liquid phase diagrams of solutions ionic liquids + organic solvents and ionic liquids + supercritical CO2, extraction    
   vesna@itqb.unl.pt


Born: Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 1973/12/18, Nationality: Serbian

Education: Graduated at the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, 1998

Career: Employed as a chemical engineer at the Technical Department of the "Jugopetrol" Petrol Company, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1998-2000

 

   Ana Rita Duarte

   PhD student

   rduarte@itqb.unl.pt


Born
: Lisboa, 1978/12/26, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, FCT-UNL, 2001

ERASMUS studentship - "Measurements and modelling of bubble and dew points in binary systems carbon dioxide +  cyclobutanone and propane + cyclobutanone”, University of Delft, The Netherlands, Supervisor: Dr. C.J.Peters, 2002

Traininships: "Implementation of the use of VIAGRA in LADB's analytical procedures". Laboratório de Análises de Dopagem e Bioquímica do Centro de Medicina Desportiva (Lisboa), Supervisor: Dr. D. de Boer


   Ana Serbanovic

    PhD student
    Reactions in scCO2

    serban@itqb.unl.pt


Born
: Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, 1977/07/01, Nationality:  Serbian

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, 2002

Traininships: 6 month at the Techinal University of Munich, Institute for Thermodynamics (IAESTE) " Combustion instabilities in premixed burners" Mentor: Prof. Wolfgang Polifke, 2000


   Ana Alexandra Matias

   Junior researcher
   Extraction of natural compounds; determination of antioxidant activity and polyphenols quantification

   amatias@itqb.unl.pt



Born
: Lisboa, 1977/07/09, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, FCT-UNL ,2002


  Ana Nunes

  Junior researcher
  Extraction of natural compounds; determination of antioxidant activity and polyphenols quantification
 
  anunes@itqb.unl.pt


Born
: Lisboa, 1977/03/14, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, FCT-UNL, 2002


  Ana Raquel Sousa

   Junior researcher
   Extraction of natural compounds

    rsousa@itqb.unl.pt


Born
: Lisboa, 1978/12/03, Nationality: Portuguese

Education: Graduated in Chemical Engineering, FCT-UNL, 2002

ERASMUS studentship - "High pressure phase behaviour  of the system ethane + citrus oil”, University of Delft, The Netherlands, Supervisor: Dr. C.J.Peters, 2001

Traininships: "Implementation of the use of VIAGRA in LADB's analytical procedures". Laboratório de Análises de Dopagem e Bioquímica do Centro de Medicina Desportiva (Lisboa): Supervisor: Dr. D. de Boer

“Product analisys for quality control”, FOMAR ROULUNDS Group, Poland,  Supervisor: Dr. Pawel Stolarczyk, 2002












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