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I’m a freelance scientist with hands-on research experience in both academic labs and in a company desk
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Work Experience
Research fellow/FCT research fellowship BI-Wellness project
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
January 2025 - Present 
Researcher
BRIDGES - Biotechnology Research, Innovation and Design for Health Products
January 2024 - December 2024
Researcher/Research Fellowship of the MiADrugTox project
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
July 2023 - December 2024
Researcher
Associação CECOLAB - Collaborative Laboratory Towards Circular Economy
October 2022 - July 2023
R&D intern (curricular internship mainly in the field of Blue Biotechnology)
Fykia Biotech
January 2021 - July 2022
Education
Microbial biofilms: Importance, laboratorial cultivation systems and applications (Course)
University of Santiago de Compostela
January 2024 - January 2024
S4Agro - Sustainable Primary Packaging in the Dairy Products Subsector
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
- 2023
Circular Economy Professional Training course - Circular Loops
Aproximar
November 2022 - December 2022
Video Editing course by Lula Gigante Produções
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
- 2022
Blue Growth, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summer School 2022
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências
2022 - 2022
MSc in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology (Chemistry and Biochemistry Department | Biology Department )
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências
2020 - 2022
XII Workshop APECS Portugal - "An Unexpected Journey - Polar Science on a Pandemic Crisis"
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
November 2021 - November 2021
Research trainee - BSc Final Project in Autoaggregation in Ionic Liquids derived from Antimalarial Drugs and Gemini Surfactants. Finalization with a score of 18 out of 20. (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
University of Porto
February 2020 - August 2020
BSc in Chemistry (Chemistry and Biochemistry Department)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências
2017 - 2020
Bioorganic Chemistry Project - Project of the course of Bioorganic Chemistry in solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) of bioactive compounds identified in cutaneous secretions of Portuguese or Amazonian amphibians under the broader project VIDA-FROG (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
University of Porto
September 2019 - December 2019
Forensic Sciences course
Universidade do Porto
November 2019 - November 2019
Extracurricular Internship Program (PEEC) in Graphene Nanocomposites with Metal Oxides for Application in Photocatalysis. Finalization of the internship with the classification "Excellent". (REQUIMTE/LAQV, FCUP, Chemistry and Biochemistry Dep.)
University of Porto
February 2019 - July 2019
Benchtop Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Seminar
Paralab (Portugal)
April 2019 - April 2019
"A Física do Dia-a-Dia" (Everyday physics continuing education course)
Universidade do Porto
2019 - 2019
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ana Freire da Silva, André F. Moreira, Sónia P. Miguel, Paula Coutinho (2024). Recent advances in microalgae encapsulation techniques for biomedical applications . Advances in Colloid and Interface Science.
CONFERENCE POSTER
Nanoencapsulation of phycocyanin from Nostoc sp. for biomedical applications @misc {
author = {Sónia P. Miguel and André F. Moreira and Ribeiro, Maximiano and Coutinho, Paula},
title = {Nanoencapsulation of phycocyanin from Nostoc sp. for biomedical applications},
year = {2024},
month = {jun}
}. 8¿¿ Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology.
Phycocyanin extracted with non-enzymatic simulated intestinal fluid: A case of biomimetics @misc {
author = {Sónia P. Miguel and Dangelo, Caique and André Moreira and Ribeiro, Maximiano and Coutinho, Paula},
title = {Phycocyanin extracted with non-enzymatic simulated intestinal fluid: A case of biomimetics},
year = {2024},
month = {jun}
}. 8¿¿ Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Biostimulant Effects in the Germination of Seeds @inproceedings {
author = {Freire da Silva, Ana and Morais, João and Vasconcelos, Vitor},
title = {Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Biostimulant Effects in the Germination of Seeds},
year = {2021},
keywords = {microalgae; cyanobacteria; biostimulant; germination}
}. 1st International Congress of Biotechnology and Bioengineering - V COPEBIOT 2021.
Ana Freire da Silva, João Morais, Vitor Vasconcelos (2021). Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Biostimulant Effects in the Germination of Seeds . 1ˢᵗ International Congress of Biotechnology and Bioengineering/5ᵗʰ Peruvian Congress of Biotechnology and Bioengineering - COPEBIOT 2021.
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