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 |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/10/01 - 2023/03/13
Ongoing
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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)
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2016
Concluded
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Mestrado em Materiais e Dispositivos Biomédicos (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Interacções celulares de enxertos ósseos à base de fosfatos de cálcio" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2014
Concluded
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Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
"Digestibility Experiment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/12/01 - Current | 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 | |
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2021/12/01 - 2022/11/30 | Bolsa de investigação Mestre no projeto 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 | Bolsa de investigação Mestre no projeto nº17789 - VinylGreen – Produção de PVC isento de ftalatos - REF. 411674. | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
Conference poster |
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Exhibition catalog |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/02 | Photodegradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels | Polymers 2023
(Bangkok, Thailand)
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2022/07/21 | Photodegradable, tough and highly stretchable hydrogels | Junior Euromat 2022
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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2017/02/16 | Cellular interations of bone grafts based on calcium phosphates | 5th IEEE Portuguese BioEngineering Meeting
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/01 - Current | Silk fibroin hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties
Supervisor of João Marcelino
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Engenharia Química (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2021/09 - 2022/09 | Water-soluble and photodegradable crosslinker to prepare double-network hydrogels
Co-supervisor of Aline Nort Küster
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Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/02/29 | Desenvolvimento de membranas poliméricas para a prevenção de adesões peritendinosas
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Francisca Reis Ribeiro Rénio (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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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
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Nuno Diogo Pargana Mateus (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Distinctions
Other distinction
2016 | Prémio Nacional de Diabetologia SPD 2016 |