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Rui Sousa took a Ph.D. course on Applied Chemistry at Universidade do Minho, following a background in this field, with a BSc in Biochemistry and a MSc in Chemical Characterization and Analysis Techniques. Before the Ph.D., he worked briefly as a Research Fellow within the project SolSensors, funded by FCT. His work includes the synthesis and characterization of new organic molecules, the synthesis and characterization of novel organic-inorganic hybrids by the sol-gel method, antifouling compounds sensing, and optical fiber sensors. His background provided well-balanced knowledge and expertise within the chemistry field.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rui Pedro Carvalho Lima de Sousa

Citation names

  • Rui P. C. L. Sousa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
551A-FBC9-5627
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3741-3039

Email addresses

  • rp.cls@hotmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua dos Talhos, n 27, Tadim, 4705-671, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10/01 - 2023/12/18
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Química Aplicada (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/09 - 2018/12
Concluded
 Técnicas de Caracterização e Análise Química (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Sondas fluorescentes e agentes antifúngicos derivados do Nile Blue" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013/09 - 2016/07
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Síntese peptídica em fase sólida assistida por micro-ondas (SPFS-MW): síntese de um péptido mimético" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - 2019/09/30 Bolseiro de Investigação Universidade do Minho Centro de Química, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Química, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - 2019/09/30 Development of Advanced Fibre Optic Sensors to Monitor the Durability of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Structures (SolSensors)
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031220
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Química, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rita B. Figueira; Rui Sousa; Carlos J. R. Silva. "Multifunctional and smart organic–inorganic hybrid sol–gel coatings for corrosion protection applications". In Advances in Smart Coatings and Thin Films for Future Industrial and Biomedical Engineering Applications. 2020.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-849870-5.00008-2
Conference paper
  1. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; Maria Manuela Marques Raposo. "Synthesis and Chemosensory Studies of a Heterocyclic Thiosemicarbazone as a New Tributyltin Optical Chemosensor". 2022.
    10.3390/ecsoc-26-13540
  2. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "Quinoline-Based Hydrazone Derivative as a Biocide Chemosensor: Synthesis and Sensing Studies". 2022.
    10.3390/ecsa-9-13199
  3. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; Maria Manuela M. Raposo. "Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Sol–Gel Material Loaded with an Heterocyclic Aldehyde with Potential Application for Cu(II) Detection". 2021.
    10.3390/ecsoc-25-11682
  4. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Raquel C. R. Gonçalves; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; Maria Manuela M. Raposo. "Heterocyclic Aldehydes Based on Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene Core: Synthesis and Preliminary Studies as Ion Optical Chemosensors". 2020.
    10.3390/ecsoc-24-08092
  5. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; João C. C. Ferreira; Maria João M. F. Sousa; M. Sameiro T. Gonçalves. "New Nile Blue Derivatives as NIR Fluorescent Probes and Antifungal Agents". 2018.
    10.3390/ecsoc-22-05693
Conference poster
  1. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Bárbara R. Gomes; Susana P. G. Costa; Rui F. P. Pereira; Rita B. Figueira; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "Imidazole-doped organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel material for pH monitoring in concrete". Paper presented in VI Encontro de Técnicas de Caracter-ização e Análise Química, 2022.
  2. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Raquel C. R. Gonçalves; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "Formyl-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene derivative: preliminary chemosensory studies and spectrophotometric titrations". Paper presented in XIV International Workshop on Sensors and Molecular Recognition, 2021.
  3. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Rita B. Figueira; Susana P. G. Costa; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "Imidazole-doped organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel materials: synthesis and characterization". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting, 2021.
  4. Sousa, Rui. "Hybrid Coating Enriched with TMOS for corrosion mitigation of HGDS". Paper presented in Materiais 2019, 2019.
  5. Sousa, Rui; Sousa, Maria João; Gonçalves, Maria do Sameiro. "New Nile Blue sulfonamide derivatives: synthesis, characterization and photophysics". Paper presented in V Encontro em Técnicas de Caracterização e Análise Química, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Rita B. Figueira; Emanuela Callone; Sandra Dirè; Susana P. G. Costa; Maria Manuela M. Raposo. "Amino-Alcohol Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Sol-Gel Materials Based on an Epoxy Bicyclic Silane: Synthesis and Characterization". Nanomaterials (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13172429.
    10.3390/nano13172429
  2. João C. C. Ferreira; Rui P. C. L. Sousa; A. Preto; Maria João Sousa; M. Sameiro T. Gonçalves. "Novel Benzo[a]phenoxazinium Chlorides Functionalized with Sulfonamide Groups as NIR Fluorescent Probes for Vacuole, Endoplasmic Reticulum, and Plasma Membrane Staining". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24033006.
    10.3390/ijms24033006
  3. Bárbara Ferreira; Sara Sousa; Rui P.C.L. Sousa; Susana P.G. Costa; M. Manuela M. Raposo; Pier Parpot; Artur J.M. Valente; Rui F.P. Pereira; Rita B. Figueira. "Organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel membranes for pH sensing in highly alkaline environment". Construction and Building Materials 360 (2022): 129493-129493. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.129493.
    10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.129493
  4. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Susana P. G. Costa; Rita B. Figueira; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "New Dinitrophenyl Hydrazones as Colorimetric Probes for Anions". Chemosensors (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors10100384.
    10.3390/chemosensors10100384
  5. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Rita B. Figueira; Bárbara R. Gomes; Sara Sousa; R. Cristina M. Ferreira; Susana P. G. Costa; M. Manuela M. Raposo. "Hybrid Sol-Gel Matrices Doped with Colorimetric/Fluorimetric Imidazole Derivatives". Nanomaterials (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11123401.
    10.3390/nano11123401
  6. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; João C. C. Ferreira; Maria João Sousa; M. Sameiro T. Gonçalves. "N-(5-Amino-9H-benzo[a]phenoxazin-9-ylidene)propan-1-aminium chlorides as antifungal agents and NIR fluorescent probes". New Journal of Chemistry (2021): https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NJ00879J.
    10.1039/D1NJ00879J
  7. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Rita B. Figueira; Bárbara R. Gomes; Susana P. G. Costa; Miguel Azenha; Rui F. P. Pereira; M. Manuela Raposo. "Organic–inorganic hybrid sol–gel materials doped with a fluorescent triarylimidazole derivative". RSC Advances 11 40 (2021): 24613-24623. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1RA03997K.
    10.1039/D1RA03997K
  8. Rui P. C. L. Sousa. "Optical Fiber Sensors for Biocide Monitoring: Examples, Transduction Materials, and Prospects.". ACS sensors (2020): https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c01615.
    10.1021/acssensors.0c01615
  9. Rui P. C. L. Sousa; Bárbara Ferreira; Miguel Azenha; Susana P. G. Costa; Carlos J. R. Silva; Rita B. Figueira. "PDMS Based Hybrid Sol-Gel Materials for Sensing Applications in Alkaline Environments: Synthesis and Characterization". Polymers 12 2 (2020): 371-371. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12020371.
    10.3390/polym12020371
  10. Figueira, R.B.; Sousa, R.; Coelho, L.; Azenha, M.; de Almeida, J.M.; Jorge, P.A.S.; Silva, C.J.R.. "Alkali-silica reaction in concrete: Mechanisms, mitigation and test methods". Construction and Building Materials 222 (2019): 903-931. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.07.230.
    10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.07.230
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Sousa, Rui. "Sondas fluorescentes e agentes antifúngicos derivados do Nile Blue". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2018.
  2. Sousa, Rui. "Síntese peptídica em fase sólida assistida por micro-ondas (SPFS-MW): síntese de um péptido mimético". Degree, Universidade do Minho, 2016.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05/18 New developments in biocide chemosensors: are quinoline-based hydrazones any good? 8th PYCheM
Young Chemists Group (Vila Real, Portugal)
2023/02/01 8-Hydroxyquinoline-2-carbaldehyde as a tributyltin chemosensor Phot'Online 2023
French Chemical Society (France)
2021/07/16 Heterocyclic thiosemicarbazone based on a bithienyl pi-conjugated bridge for heavy metal cations detection XXVII Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Braga, Portugal)
2019/04/17 Hybrid Sol-gel Materials for Fiber Optic Sensors Application MATERIAIS 2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/05/17 - 2023/05/19 8th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (2023/05/17 - 2023/05/19)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2017/04/07 - 2017/04/10 X Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica (2017/04/07)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016/01 - 2016/05 Causas que levam ao escurecimento da madeira, no âmbito do processo da produção da folha de madeira
Workshop
 iScience - Interface Ciência

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/05 - 2023/05 Grupo de Químicos Jovens da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química Direção
2016/01 - 2017/01 Associação Académica da Universidade do Minho Diretor do Departamento Cultural e Tradições Académicas