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As part of the initiatives for IOYCr2014 celebrations at FCT-NOVA, on Wednesday, 29 October 2014, Professor Maria Teresa Duarte will give a lecture entitled "Unveiling a new world of pharmaceuticals and bioinspired frameworks" at the library auditorium.
Biography:
Professor Maria Teresa Duarte got a Chemical Engineering Degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisbon) in 1983 and a PhD in Chemistry in 1989 from the same Institute; she received her Habilitation in Chemistry in 2007 at IST.
She started her professional career at IST in 1980 as Demonstrator, Teaching Assistant (1983-89), Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with tenior (1995-2007). She is presently Associate Professor with habilitation. She has been a Fulbright and Humboldt grantee and a post- doctoral Fellow at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (1994- 95). She has been an invited researcher in different Universities in England, USA, Italy, and France. She has been involved on several Institutional assignments and University Management: She is presently Vice-President of the Scientific Board of IST since January 2007, and was IST delegate to CLUSTER (Leading Universities of Science and Technology), 2005-12. In 2004, she received a prize from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, “Estímulo à Excelência” awarded to those scientists with high scientific productivity. She is member of diverse Scientific Societies and member of different International Commissions. She has coordinated different research Projects, published 5 Book Chapters with International distribution, one International Patent and has co-authored more than 200 papers in International Journals with peer review, and has presented more than 250 communications at International Conferences.
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