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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rita Gaspar Fonseca

Citation names

  • Rita G. Fonseca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
371E-6801-89EA
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9119-2188

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/10/01 - 2023/03/13
Concluded
 Engenharia Química (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal
"Synthesis of highly stretchable and tough hydrogels with controlled photodegration" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016
Concluded
 Mestrado em Materiais e Dispositivos Biomédicos (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Interacções celulares de enxertos ósseos à base de fosfatos de cálcio" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014
Concluded
 Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
"Digestibility Experiment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/08/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Portugal
2022/12/01 - 2024/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Associação Para o Desenvolvimento da Engenharia Química, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/12 Visiting Researcher (Research) Associação Para o Desenvolvimento da Engenharia Química, Portugal
The Henry Royce Institute, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/12/01 - 2022/11/30 MSc Research Grant - WoW (Ref. CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-04593)1 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal
2017/10 - 2021/12 PhD Fellow (SFRH/BD/133040/2017) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal
2017/04/03 - 2017/09/30 MSc Research Grant - VinylGreen, Produção de PVC isento de ftalatos - REF. 411674. Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/12/01 - 2022/11/30 Wireless biomonitoring stickers and smart bed architecture: toWards Untethered Patients
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-045931
Master Student Fellow
2017/04/03 - 2017/09/30 VinylGreen – Produção de PVC isento de ftalatos
REF. 411647
Master Student Fellow

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/09/01 - 2024/08/31 PolyElectron - Polimerização radical controlada de grande volume alimentada por eletricidade
PTDC/EQU-EQU/2686/2020
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Rita G. Fonseca; Kuster, A.; Fernandes, P. P.; Mahmoud, T.; Pereira, P.; Fernandes, J. R.; De Bon, F.; et al. "Facile synthesis of highly stretchable, tough and photodegradable hydrogels". Paper presented in CEMMPRE Meeting 2022, 2022.
  2. Rita G. Fonseca. "Photodegradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels". Paper presented in CEMMPRE Meeting 2021, 2021.
  3. Rodrigues, T.; Almeida, J. P.; Sereno, J.; Castelhano, J.; Neves, C.; Fonseca, R. G.; Goncalves, S.; et al. "Glycation impairs adipose tissue capillarization, blood flow and expandability causing insulin resistance". Paper presented in 3rd World Congress of Glycation and Maillard Reaction, 2016.
  4. Fonseca, Rita; Jasmina Beltram; Simon Horvat; Tatjana Pirman; Vesna Mrak. "Protein digestibility and bioavailability of the F2 homozygous crossing line of the congenic mice for the lean locus Fob3b2, fed by high fat diet". Paper presented in 2nd Congress of the Slovenian Society for Laboratory Animals, 2014.
  5. Fonseca, Rita; Simon Horvat; Tatjana Pirman. "Digestibility Experiment". Paper presented in IX Portuguese Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Rita G. Fonseca; Abdollah Hajalilou; Marta Freitas; Aline Kuster; Elahe Parvini; Arménio C. Serra; Jorge F. J. Coelho; Ana C. Fonseca; Guilherme Costa. "Photodegradable Non-Drying Hydrogel Substrates for Liquid Metal Based Sustainable Soft-Matter Electronics". Advanced Materials Technologies (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admt.202301007.
    10.1002/admt.202301007
  2. Rita G. Fonseca; Aline Kuster; Pedro P. Fernandes; Mahmoud Tavakoli; Patrícia Pereira; José R. Fernandes; Francesco De Bon; et al. "Facile Synthesis of Highly Stretchable, Tough, and Photodegradable Hydrogels". Advanced Healthcare Materials (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202300918.
    10.1002/adhm.202300918
  3. Francesco De Bon; Ana B. Barbosa; Rita G. Fonseca; Marco Fantin; Arménio C. Serra; Jorge F. J Coelho. "Large volume and oxygen tolerant photoinduced aqueous atom transfer radical polymerization". Chemical Engineering Journal 451 (2023): 138777-138777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.138777.
    10.1016/j.cej.2022.138777
  4. Rita G. Fonseca; Francesco De Bon; Patrícia Pereira; Francisca M. Carvalho; Marta Freitas; Mahmoud Tavakoli; Arménio C. Serra; Ana C. Fonseca; Jorge Coelho. "Photo-degradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels". Materials Today Bio 15 (2022): 100325-100325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100325.
    10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100325
  5. Francesco De Bon; Rita G. Fonseca; Francesca Lorandi; Arménio C. Serra; Abdirisak A. Isse; Krzysztof Matyjaszewski; Jorge F.J. Coelho. "The scale-up of electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization without deoxygenation". Chemical Engineering Journal 445 (2022): 136690-136690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.136690.
    10.1016/j.cej.2022.136690
  6. Tatjana Pirman; Vesna Mrak; Rita Fonseca; Simon Horvat. "Protein digestibility and bioavailability in an F2 mouse cross between the selected fat mouse line and an M2 congenic line carrying the anti-obesity and anti-diabetic Tst allele". Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 106 4 (2021): 881-887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpn.13650.
    10.1111/jpn.13650
  7. Rodrigues, Tiago; Matafome, Paulo; Sereno, José; Almeida, José; Castelhano, João; Gamas, Luís; Neves, Christian; et al. "Methylglyoxal-induced glycation changes adipose tissue vascular architecture, flow and expansion, leading to insulin resistance". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01730-3.
    10.1038/s41598-017-01730-3
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Synthesis of highly stretchable and tough hydrogels with controlled photodegradation". PhD, 2023.
  2. Fonseca, Rita. "Interacções celulares de enxertos ósseos à base de fosfatos de cálcio". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais e Cerâmica, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17639.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/26 Photodegradable Non-Drying Hydrogel Substrates for Liquid Metal Based Sustainable Soft-Matter Electronics 35th Annual Internacional Society for Medical Innovation and Technology
(Cáceres, Spain)
2023/02/22 Photodegradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels Polymers 2023
(Bangkok, Thailand)
2022/07/21 Photodegradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels Junior Euromat 2022
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/02/16 Cellular interations of bone grafts based on calcium phosphates 5th IEEE Portuguese BioEngineering Meeting
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/05/26 Glycation impairs adipose tissue capillarization, blood flow and expandability causing insulin resistance 3 rd World Congress of Glycation and Maillard Reaction
(Budapeste, Hungary)
2015/09/14 Methylglyoxal impairs high-fat diet-induced adipose tissue expansion causing systemic dysmetabolism 51st Annual Meeting of the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Diabetes (EASD)
(Estocolmo, Sweden)
2014/06/19 Protein digestibility and bioavailability of the F2 homozygous crossing line of the congenic mice for the lean locus Fob3b2, fed by high fat diet 2nd Congress of the Slovenian Society for Laboratory Animals
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current Silk fibroin-based hydrogels and their potential as materials for 3D printing
Supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia Química (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024/09 - Current Design of eutectogels for sustainable soft-matter
Supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia Química (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/09/23 Synthesis and characterization of silk fibroin-based hydrogels for biomedical applications
Supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia Química (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/09 Water-soluble and photodegradable crosslinker to prepare double-network hydrogels
Co-supervisor of Aline Nort Küster
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/20 Poly(ester amide)s based scaffold for tendon regeneration
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Henrique Gomes Saraiva (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2025/02/19 Production of aerogels from post-consumer polymer waste
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Filipa Santos Oliveira (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/02/29 Desenvolvimento de membranas poliméricas para a prevenção de adesões peritendinosas
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria Francisca Reis Ribeiro Rénio (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/09/29 Influência da distribuição de peso molecular de copolímeros de bloco catiónicos no seu desempenho como vetores de entrega de material genético para o tratamento de cancro
(Thesis) Arguer
 Nuno Diogo Pargana Mateus (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/05 - 2033/09 Summer Internship Sandra Mamede
Distinctions

Other distinction

2016 Prémio Nacional de Diabetologia SPD 2016