Inês Rodrigues Padrão (5C1D-1A23-9312)

Curriculum Vitae

Inês Rodrigues Padrão

Inês Padrão is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NOVA University Lisbon specialized in molecular biology, protein biophysics, protein engineering, and the development of bio-based materials. She brings over six years of R&D experience, with strong expertise in recombinant protein expression, purification, and characterization, alongside a broad command of biophysical and material analysis techniques. Dr. Padrão also presents extensive experience in histology, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), including sample preparation, imaging, and ultrastructural analysis. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry (2017) and a Master's Degree in Biotechnology (2019) and a PhD in biotechnology (defended on January 20th, 2026) from NOVA FCT. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Biomolecular Engineering Lab in NOVA FCT where she works on the development and validation of analytical strategies for the early and non-invasive diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, focusing on the detection of relevant biochemical signatures. Her responsibilities include sample pre-treatment, implementation of biochemical analysis methods, data interpretation, collaboration with clinical and industry partners, and the preparation of technical and scientific documentation. During her academic and professional routes, she has 4 peer-reviewed articles published in international journals. She did several laboratory internships that allowed improve her critical thinking, problem-resolution skills and technical competencies. From January 2020 to June 2021 she held a position as an Auxiliary Researcher in Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas (UCIBIO) and was involved in the AccuseD project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030388 - PTDC/SAL-SER/30388/2017) in collaboration with Instituto Português de Oncologia (IPO-PORTO) and Sciences Faculty of Porto University to develop biobased materials for fast and non-invasive detection of kidney cancer. In 2021, she was awarded with a PhD Studentship by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to proceed with her research on the development of biobased and sustainable materials from cephalopods and characterization of cephalopod tissue morphology by different microscopy techniques. She works in the area of natural sciences with an emphasis on microscopy (light and electron transmission) molecular biology and protein engineering, expression, purification and characterization.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Inês Rodrigues Padrão

Citation names

Padrão, Inês

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5C1D-1A23-9312
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6700-0465

Addresses

NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, FCT NOVA Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica , 2829-516, Caparica, Setubal, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://pt.linkedin.com/in/inespadrao (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology
Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Bio-derived Novel Materials
Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2026/03/14 - 2026/05/22 Ongoing	Clinical research and project management (Diploma de especialização) Invictus Sciences, Portugal
2021/07/01 - 2026/01/20 Concluded	Biotechnology (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "The cephalopod skin as a source of proteins: lessons from adaptation and ecophysiology" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2025/02/01 - 2025/06/30 Concluded	EIT Deep Talent Initiative Certificate (2025) Deep Tech Venture Development (Outros) HiSeedTech-Associação para a Valorização do Conhecimento, Portugal, Portugal
2025/05/22 Concluded	Comunicação de Ciência (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/12/16 Concluded	Research Data Management (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/12/13 Concluded	Gestão de Projectos (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/11/05 Concluded	Literacia da Informação (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/10/12 Concluded	Scientific Text Processing with LaTeX (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/09 Concluded	Biotechnology (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Multicomponent Chemically and Physically Cross-linked hydrogels" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09 - 2017/08 Concluded	Biochemistry (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Thermodynamic transformations of a novel ionic liquid for pharmacological application" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2026/02/12 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/01 - 2021/06/30	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/11	Research Trainee (Research)	REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/07	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal (...)
2016/07 - 2016/08	Research Trainee (Research)	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/07/01 - 2026/01/20	PhD candidate	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal (...)

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/07/01 - 2025/06/30	Development of biobased and sustainable materials from cephalopods UI/BD/151154/2021 PhD Student Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Ongoing
2020/01/07 - 2021/06/30	AccuseD project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030388 - PTDC/SAL-SER/30388/2017 Researcher Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2026/02/12 - Current	UNMASK - Unraveling Parkinson’s Disease Diagnostic 10.3030/101158248 Post-doc Fellow Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal	European Research Council Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Instituto para a Saúde e a Bioeconomia LA/P/0140/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0140/2020 PhD Student Fellow Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas UIDB/04378/2020 10.54499/UIDB/04378/2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas UIDP/04378/2020 10.54499/UIDP/04378/2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/17 - 2025/01/16	PROTEIOS - Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing PTDC/CTM-CTM/3389/2021 10.54499/PTDC/CTM-CTM/3389/2021 PhD research in the scope of the project Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa ¿Laboratório de Instrumentação Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2019	Sea2See: Bio-inspired materials for fish spoilage control LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-028878 PTDC/BII-BIO/28878/2017 Master thesis in the scope of the project Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Padrão, Inês; Moutinho Cabral, Inês; Ana MGC Dias; Pedro M. Costa; Roque, ACA. Corresponding author: Roque, ACA. "Structural and biochemical characterization of Octopus skin: Cellular Architecture, Pigments and Proteins". Paper presented in Supralife Final International conference, 2025. Rodrigo, Ana P.; Gonçalves, Cátia; Moutinho Cabral, Inês; Vitorino, Joao D.; Faustino, Catarina; Padrão, Inês; Leitão-Silva, David ; et al. "Biotechnological potential of the Portuguese Ocean.". Paper presented in NOVA-FCT Science Days, 2025. Padrão, Inês; Ana MGC Dias; Pedro M. Costa; Roque, ACA. Corresponding author: Roque, ACA. "Isolation and characterization of a reflectin protein from the common octopus". Paper presented in European congress on biotechnology 2024, 2024. Padrão, Inês; Ana MGC Dias; Pedro M. Costa; Roque, ACA. Corresponding author: Roque, ACA. "Isolation and characterization of a reflectin protein from the common octopus". Paper presented in Bioinspired materials; Gordon Research Conference 2024, 2024. Palma, Susana I. C. J.; Pinto, J.; Esteves, Carina; Padrão, Inês; Ramou, Efthymia; Rebordão, Guilherme; Alves, R.; et al. "Olfaction-inspired non-invasive renal caner diagnostics". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology (BITE 2024), 2024. Padrão, Inês. "Isolation and characterization of a reflectin protein from the common octopus". Paper presented in Supralife 2024, 2024. Palma, Susana; Pinto, Joana; Esteves, Carina; Padrão, Inês; Ramou, E; Rebordão, G; Alves, R; et al. "Olfaction-inspired non-invasive renal cancer diagnostics". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology, 2024. Lychko, Iana; Lopes Soares, Cátia; Inês Padrão; Calmeiro, Tomás; Moura Barbosa, Arménio J.; Pedro Costa; Ana MGC Dias; et al. "Optimized production of reflectins and characterization of their reversible self-assembly. Microbiotec 2023, 7th-9th December 2023, Covilhã, Portugal". Paper presented in Microbiotec 2023, 2023. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Padrão, Inês; Calmeiro, Tomás; Moura Barbosa, Arménio J.; Costa, Pedro M.; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Optimized production of reflectins and characterization of their reversible self-assembly". Paper presented in Microbiotec 2023, 2023. Padrão, Inês; Cátia Gonçalves; António Pedro Alves de Matos; Roque, ACA; Costa, Pedro M.. "Detection and isolation of reflectins from the common octopus". Paper presented in 1st Egas Moniz One Health Symposium, 2022. Ana Cecília Afonso Roque; Claudia Sofia M Fernandes; Ana S Pina; Arménio J Barbosa; AMGC Dias; Padrão, Inês; Rodrigues, A; et al. "Affinity triggered hydrogels with tunable properties". Paper presented in IUPAC, 2019.
Journal article	Lychko, Iana; Padrão, Inês; Eva, Afonso Vicente; Domingos, Catarina Alexandra Oliveira; Costa, Henrique Miguel Aljustrel da; Dias, Ana Margarida Gonçalves Carvalho; Roque, Ana Cecília Afonso. Corresponding author: Roque, Ana Cecília Afonso. "Cephalopod proteins for bioinspired and sustainable biomaterials design". Materials Today Bio 31 (2025): 101644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2025.101644. 10.1016/j.mtbio.2025.101644 Padrão, Inês; Fernandes, Cláudia S. M.; Esteves, Carina; Fernandes, Tiago; Pina, Ana S.; Roque, Ana Cecília A.. Corresponding author: Pina, Ana S.. "Versatile and Tunable Poly(Ethylene Glycol)-Based Hydrogels Crosslinked through the Ugi Reaction". ChemPlusChem 85 12 (2020): 2737-2741. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202000743. 10.1002/cplu.202000743 Rodrigues, R.; Palma, S.I.C.J.; G. Correia, V.; Padrão, I.; Pais, J.; Banza, M.; Alves, C.; et al. "Sustainable plant polyesters as substrates for optical gas sensors". Materials Today Bio 8 (2020): 100083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2020.100083. 10.1016/j.mtbio.2020.100083 Fernandes, Cláudia S. M.; Pina, Ana S.; Moura Barbosa, Arménio J.; Padrão, Inês; Duarte, Filipa; Teixeira, Cátia A. S.; Alves, Vítor; et al. Corresponding author: Roque, Ana C. A.. "Affinity-Triggered Assemblies Based on a Designed Peptide–Peptide Affinity Pair". Biotechnology Journal 14 11 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/biot.201800559. 10.1002/biot.201800559
Thesis / Dissertation	Padrão, Inês Rodrigues. "Multicomponent chemically and physically cross-linked hydrogels". Master, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/87816.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/07/02	Isolation and characterization of a reflectin protein from the common octopus	European congress on biotechnology 2024 European Federation of Biotechnology (Roterdão, Netherlands)
2023/06	Olfaction-inspired non-invasive renal cancer diagnostics	Affinity 2023 International Society for Molecular Recognition (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/27	Intelligent gels for artificial olfaction	Biosensors 2021
2021/06/24	Affinity-triggered assemblies for cell differentiation and tissue engineering	Affinity 2021
2021/05/27	Intelligent gels for artificial olfaction	, iSOCS Short Course Summer 2021 - In search for COVID19: Olfaction, Biomarkers and a Pandemic agent iSOCS
2021/05/19	Intelligent gels for artificial olfaction	UCIBIO Bioseminars UCIBIO (Portugal)
2019/07	Multicomponent and functional protein-based materials	Design Biology Newcastle University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2025/05/09	5th Meeting of Young Biophysicists Biophysics Festival 2025 at NOVA FCT organized by Portuguese Young Biophysicists (PYBphy) group (2025/05/08 - 2025/05/09) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/12 - 2024/07	4th Meeting of Young Biophysicists Biophysics Festival 2024 at University of Beira Interior organized by Portuguese Young Biophysicists (PYBphy) group. (2024/05/09 - 2024/05/10) (2024/05/09 - 2024/05/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/06/05 - 2023/06/07	Organizing Committee at Affinity 2023 - The 25th meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition (Lisbon) (2023/06/05 - 2023/06/07) Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2015/12 - Current	Food collections for the charity foundation Other	Food Bank
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/30	Scientific exposition at 2023 European Researchers' Night through Biomolecular Engineering LAB, FCT-NOVA Exhibition	2023 European Researchers' Night Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/20	Scientific exposition at Expo-FCT through Biomolecular Engineering LAB, FCT-NOVA Exhibition	EXPO FCT 2023 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01	Scientific exposition at 2022 European Researchers' Night through Biomolecular Engineering LAB, FCT-NOVA Exhibition	2022 European Researchers' Nigh Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/05/16 - 2022/05/18	Encontro Ciência 2022. Helped prepare and presented to researchers, entrepreneurs, students and the general public an activity promoted by the Biomolecular engineering Lab entitled "Biopolymers and detection of infections". Exhibition	Encontro Ciência 2022 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021/03/15 - 2021/03/19	Participation in the second edition of PEPPERSchool, an international thematic school Workshop	PEPPERSchool Aix-Marseille Université, France
2019/04 - 2019/04	Scientific exposition at Expo-FCT through Biomolecular Engineering LAB, FCT-NOVA Exhibition	EXPO FCT 2019 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023/01/01 - Current	Portuguese Biophysics Society (Sociedade Portuguesa de Biofísica)	Member
2022 - Current	European Peptide Society	Member
2022 - Current	European Materials Research Society	Member
2020/02 - Current	European Federation of Biotechnology	Member

Distinctions

Award

2023	Best poster award (atributed to poster presented by Iana Lychko at MicroBiotec23) Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2021	Runner up of Young Researcher Award
2021	Attendance grant for PhD student Aix-Marseille Université, France