Isabel Ferreira
Isabel Maria Mercês Ferreira, PhD in Hydrogenated amorphous and nanocrystalline Silicon produced by HWPA-CVD Technique, October 2002 at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL), in the field of Materials Engineering, specialization in Optoelectronics and Microelectronics. Since 2013 is Associated Professor at Department of Materials Science (DCM) of “FCT-UNL, being Assistant professor in the period of 2002-2013 at FCT-UNL. From 2002 to 2015 was a member of the scientific board of DCM. Vice-director of the Materials Research Centre-CENIMAT (2008-2014), responsible by the Electronic Materials and Nanotechnologies group (2006-2013); member of the executive board of the DCM (2008-2015) and Coordinator of the Master Course in Micro and Nanotechnologies of FCT-UNL (2013-2015).
After PhD in 2002, she has developed independent research at CENIMAT/I3N (Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling and Nanofabrication. She launched new R&D activity in the fields of: Oxides Thin Film Thermoelectric Materials; Plasmonics for nanocrystalline silicon solar cells, Solid state batteries on paper and bio-batteries; development of organic semiconductors based on micro/nano fibres; This activity is supported by the projects that she coordinates or is the responsible at institution: 9 projects (3 Industrial; 3 Portuguese National Science Foundation; 2 from I3N; 1 European); and by the supervision of more than 16 Research fellows.
After PhD (2002) she published about 90 papers with a total of citations above 1600 and h factor of 20 (source web of science).
Her research activity is multidisciplinary in the field of micro Opto/electronics and nanotechnologies: - Microelectronic and Optoelectronic devices; -Materials for Energy Conversion; - Optoelectronic Micro/Nano fibres; and – Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies. The people involved in the development of all these activities are 3 Pos-doc, 5 PhD and 5 MSc students, 3 Research Fellows.
In 2015 she got the coordinator of a H2020 project “Transflexteg-Large area transparent thin film thermoelectrics devices for smart window and flexible applications”, of a consortium formed by other 8 EU partners, and an ERC consolidator grant for the development of ChapTerPV (Integration of Capacitor, Thermoelectric and PhotoVoltaic thin films for efficient energy conversion and storage).