Dr. Lorena Infante Teixeira

Early Stage Researcher - PHOTO-EMULSION Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Reactive sulfur nanoparticles for biomedical applications Working skills: Project and resource management | Organization of conferences | Representative of Early Stage Researchers | Laboratory maintenance Technical skills: Nanoparticles synthesis | Material characterization | Spectroscopy | Polymer films | Quantum chemistry calculations | Kinetic | Raman in-situ | Protein corona | Drug-delivery

Use of green antiscalants agents in Milk of Lime production and optimization of the Tubing Blocking-test on industrial scale. Working skills: Bibliographic search | Problem-solving | Teamwork | Cooperation with technicians | Presentation skills Technical skills: Quick-lime processing | Solids characterization | SEM | XRD | Spectroscopy | Design of experiments

(in between Bsc and Msc-degree) Working skills: Problem-solving | Teamwork | Standardization of practices | Lab management Technical skills: Material characterization | XRD | SEM | BET surface area | Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy | Catalytic tests | GC-MS | FTIR | Energy Dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy

Doctorate: Thiol-ene Miniemulsion Photopolymerization: Functional and Reactive Sulfur Polymer Latex Project and resource management Organization of the 2nd Consortium meeting; Representative of Early Stage Researchers; Teaching duties - advanced organic lab practice, Raman spectroscopy and Gel Electrophoresis practices; Design and full characterization of polymer nanoparticles for drug delivery; Raman spectroscopy, kinetics of polymerization in-flow (operando; in-situ; Organic synthesis.

European Master of Science in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry Erasmus Mundus fellow Msc thesis: Near-Infrared absorbing photosensitizing drugs for photodynamic therapy of cancer - Synthesis and characterization of photosensitizers: spectroscopic and photochemical properties - Drug Formulation Development: physicochemical properties to improve drug targeting - Pharmacological properties: photosensitizers and nanoformulated-drugs structure-activity relationship

Exchange student: Spectroscopy and Analytical chemistry Internship: Sum Frequency Generation spectroscopy for simulated drug-delivery mechanism - Investigation of lipid monolayer surface modification during nanoparticles injection - Study of nanoparticles penetration and interactions - Setup and analysis by Langmuir-balance and Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

Development of methodology for analysis of aromatics hydrocarbons in biojet fuel via Gas Chromatography hyphenated with Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) - Synthesis of biofuels and responsible for GC-MS operations - Evaluation of standardized methods (ASTM) and troubleshooting - Development and validation of methodology - metrological evaluation