Mary Batista received her BSc degree in Chemistry (2001) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Between
1998 and 2001 she had a scientific initiation grant (CNPq) and developed her research work in the synthesis and characterization
of lanthanides complexes with organic ligands. In 2003 she received her master’s degree in chemistry from the same institution.
From 2001 to 2003 had a master's grant (CNPq) and developed research work in the synthesis and characterization of zinc sulfides.
She developed her Ph.D. (2008) in Chemistry (Synthesis of peptide ligands and Synthesis of peptide chitosan derivatives) at
the University of Porto with an FCT grant. Between 2009 and 2010 she had her PhD (FCT) in the C2TN-IST. The work developed
consisted of the Synthesis of a DOTA-like chelator bearing a thiol pendant arm for labeling biomolecules with radiometals
for in vivo diagnostic and cancer therapy. Between 2011 and 2012 had a visiting researcher grant (CAPES) at Federal University
of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil in a PNPD project (MEC/CAPES e MCT/CNPq e MCT/FINEP – 2007, Micro e nanocompósitos cimentícios
para aplicação em poços de petróleo). In 2013 she started a post-doc grant (FCT) in collaboration between the Adsorption and
Adsorbent Materials Group from CQB (FCUL) and the Chemical Engineering Reaction Group from REQUIMTE (UNL-FCT). She has also
participated in recent years in the research of nanoporous materials and explores their potentialities as adsorbents for gas
separation processes. Additionally, she also acquired competencies dealing with various types of characterization techniques
(N2 adsorption, FTIR, TG-DSC, NMR, and measurements). During her career path, Mary Batista published 33 papers in national
and international journals. She has a bulletin in the Grupo Español de Carbón, 6 extended abstracts in international conference
proceedings, one invited keynote, 8 oral communications and she presented 36 posters. Within this thematic, she supervised
4 final projects of graduation and 1 short terms internship in the CQE/FCUL. Gave classes of chemistry at the Faculty of the
Sciences University of Lisbon as an Invited Assistant Professor.
