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José F. Malta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CENIMAT | i3N. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) within the ChemMat – Materials Chemistry PhD Doctoral Programme and an MSc/BSc in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCT). During the last years, he was involved in several projects related to polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), chiral and topological magnets, skyrmionic compounds, single-molecule magnets, thermoelectric materials, and organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). He is working under the scope of the DynaCellCollect project, which aims to produce and characterise new hygromorphic cellulose-based meshes to collect water from the air efficiently. With a total of 9 publications in international journals, five oral communications and 15 posters at international and national conferences, his scientific interests rely on several domains of Materials Chemistry, namely structural materials, conductive polymers, thermoelectric materials, magnetic materials, semiconductors, nanotechnology, soft matter physics and band structure calculations of solids. He has experience as professor, during his PhD he was teaching assistant of the curricular unit of Materials Characterisation Techniques. More than a researcher, he is also a science communicator who always seeks to participate in outreach activities and events. He is also a contributing writer at Comunidade Cultura e Arte, where he writes about science, books and interviews with the most relevant scientists in Portugal.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Francisco Rodrigues Malta

Citation names

  • Malta, José Francisco
  • José Francisco Rodrigues Malta
  • Malta, José F.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AD10-050B-57A3
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4952-4185

Email addresses

  • jfrmalta@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Physical Chemistry
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Condensed Matter Physics
  • Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering
  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/01 - 2023/01/13
Concluded
 Química (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/10/15 - 2018/10/19
Concluded
 Modern Methods for Structure Elucidation (Diploma de especialização)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/06/04 - 2018/06/29
Concluded
 Radiation Protection and Safety (Diploma de especialização)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Tecnico Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear, Portugal
2012/09/24 - 2016/10/21
Concluded
 Engenharia Química e Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2010/09/14 - 2012/09/24
Attended
 Engenharia Física (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2023/03/16 - 2024/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2022/08/01 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2017/02/01 - 2017/08/31 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2017/01/30 Research Trainee (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2014/02 - 2014/04 Research Trainee (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/09/01 - Current DynaCellCollect
2022.01619.PTDC
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/03/16 - 2024/07/31 QUEST
2022.06045.PTDC
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2022/02/28 Development of Novel Chiral And Topological Magnets
PD/BD/135317/2017
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/02/01 - 2017/08/31 µflexBAT
UID/50008
Research Fellow
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Moço, Duarte; Lopes, Elsa; Santos, Luís F.; Malta, José F.; Gonçalves, António Pereira. "The Effects of Co-Doping Tetrahedrite with Ni and Se on the Thermoelectric Properties". 2022.
    10.3390/materproc2022008115
Conference poster
  1. Mariana Silva; Francisco Sousa; José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Pedro Almeida; Maria Helena Godinho; Ana Almeida. "Biomimetic Hygromorphic Cellulose Membranes for Water Harvesting". Paper presented in EurASc Symposium and Ceremony, 2024, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal, 2024.
  2. Jorge Morgado; Malta, José F.. "Responsivity of the electrical double layer of metals/ or conducting polymers/ electrolytes interfaces to bias voltage and light". Paper presented in OrBItaly (Organic BIoelectronics Italy), 2024, Bologne, Italy, 2024.
  3. Malta, José F.; Henriques, Marta S.C.; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Reentrant spin-glass and magnetic skyrmions in the ß-Mn-type alloy Co7Zn7Mn6". Paper presented in FÍSICA 2022 – 23ª Conferência Nacional de Física e 32º Encontro Ibérico para o Ensino da Física, 2022.
  4. Malta, José F.; Henriques, Marta S.C.; Paixão, José António; António Pereira Gonçalves; Miguel Carvalho. Corresponding author: Paixão, José António. "Magnetic skyrmions in GaM4X8 (M = V, Mo; X = S, Se) lacunar spinels". Paper presented in Portuguese Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, 2022, 2022.
  5. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; Paixão, José António; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Synthesis and magnetic studies of low-doped Co7Zn7Mn6, a ß-Mn-type alloy". Paper presented in JEMS 2020 - Joint European Magnetic Symposia, 2020.
  6. Helena M. Ferreira; Malta, José F.; Luís M. Ferreira; Maria H. Casimiro; Luís Santos; Manuel F. C. Pereira; António P. Gonçalves; Elsa B. Lopes. Corresponding author: Elsa B. Lopes. "NiS2 seen as a potential p-type thermoelectric material". Paper presented in 2 Iberian Thermoelectric Workshop, Ciudad Real, Spain, September 2019., 2019.
  7. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. Corresponding author: Malta, José F.. "Synthesis and Characterization of Monoclinic Cu4O(SeO3)3, a Copper-Oxo-Selenite derivative". Paper presented in Chemistry: Shaping the Future (4ECQUL), 2019.
  8. Ferreira, Helena M.; Elsa Branco Lopes; Malta, José F.; Luís M Ferreira; Casimiro, M. Helena; Luis Santos; MCF Pereira; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Study of NiS2 as p-type thermoelectric material". Paper presented in Chemistry: Shaping the Future (4ECQUL),, 2019.
  9. José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Marta S. C. Henriques; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. Corresponding author: José A. Paixão. "Synthesis, Crystallographic and Magnetic Characterization of Monoclinic Cu4O(SeO3)3". Paper presented in I National Crystallographic Meeting, 2019.
  10. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; José A. Paixão; António P. Gonçalves. "Synthesis, Crystallographic and Magnetic Characterization of Monoclinic Cu4O(SeO3)3". Paper presented in I National Crystallographic Meeting, Aveiro, 13-14th June (2019), 2019.
  11. José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Henriques, Marta S.C.; Paixão, José António; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Magnetic studies of nanocrystalline Cu2OSeO3". Paper presented in JEMS 2018 - Joint European Magnetic Symposia, 2018.
  12. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; Paixão, José António; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Síntese e caracterização de amostras nanoestruturadas de Cu2OSeO3, um magnete quiral topológico". Paper presented in Física 2018 - 21ª Conferência Nacional de Física, 2018.
  13. José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Henriques, Marta S.C.; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured Cu2OSeO3, a topological chiral magnet". Paper presented in ANM - Advanced Nano Materials 2018, 2018.
  14. José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Henriques, Marta S.C.; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Magnetic Skyrmion Phase In The Topological Chiral Magnet Cu2OSeO3". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (PYCheM), 2018.
  15. Malta, José Francisco; Sara F. Carvalho; Angelo Monteiro; Mouquinho, Ana; João Sotomayor. "Joule-Heating effect for erasing information in PDLC devices with memory". Paper presented in 12ENQF - XII Encontro Nacional de Química-Física, 2016.
Journal article
  1. José F. Malta; Marta S. C. Henriques; José António Paixão; Antonio Pereira Gonçalves. Corresponding author: José F. Malta. "Reentrant Spin Glass and Magnetic Skyrmions in the Co7Zn7Mn6-xFex ß-Mn-Type Alloys". Magnetochemistry (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry10080061.
    10.3390/magnetochemistry10080061
  2. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; José António Paixão; Antonio Pereira Gonçalves. "Synthesis and Structural and Magnetic Properties of Polycrystalline GaMo4Se8". Magnetochemistry 9 7 (2023): 182-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry9070182.
    10.3390/magnetochemistry9070182
  3. Duarte Moço; Malta, José F.; Luís F. Santos; Elsa B. Lopes; António P. Gonçalves. Corresponding author: António P. Gonçalves. "Thermoelectric Properties of Nickel and Selenium Co-Doped Tetrahedrite". Materials (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16030898.
    10.3390/ma16030898
  4. José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Marta S. C. Henriques; Paixão, José António; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Evidence of a Cluster Spin Glass Phase in the Skyrmion-Hosting GaMo4S8 compound". Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022): https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC00950A.
    Published • 10.1039/D2TC00950A
  5. Pedro T. Gomes; Ferreira, Patrícia S.; José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Bandeira, Nuno A. G.; Laura Pereira; Gomes, Pedro T.. Corresponding author: Gomes, Pedro T.. "Enhancing SIM behaviour in a mononuclear tetrahedral [Co(N,N'-2-iminopyrrolyl)2] complex". Chemical Communications (2022): https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC03511A.
    Published • 10.1039/D2CC03511A
  6. Ferreira, Helena M.; Lopes, Elsa B.; Malta, José F.; Ferreira, Luís M.; Casimiro, Maria Helena; Santos, Luís F.; Pereira, Manuel F.C.; Moço, Duarte; Gonçalves, António P.. Corresponding author: Gonçalves, António P.. "Preparation and densification of bulk pyrite, FeS2". Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 159 (2021): 110296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2021.110296.
    10.1016/j.jpcs.2021.110296
  7. Malta, José F.; Henriques, Marta S.C.; Paixão, José A.; Gonçalves, António P.; José Francisco Rodrigues Malta; Marta S. C. Henriques; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. "Magnetic studies of monoclinic Cu4O(SeO3)3, a copper-oxo-selenite derivative". EPJ Web of Conferences 233 (2020): 01002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023301002.
    10.1051/epjconf/202023301002
  8. Ferreira, Helena M.; Lopes, Elsa B.; Malta, José F.; Ferreira, Luís M.; Casimiro, Maria H.; Santos, Luís; Pereira, Manuel F.C.; Pereira Gonçalves, Antonio. "Preparation, thermal stability and electrical transport properties of vaesite, NiS2". PeerJ Materials Science 1 (2019): e2. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-matsci.2.
    10.7717/peerj-matsci.2
  9. Malta, José F.; Marta S. C. Henriques; José A. Paixão; António Pereira Gonçalves. Corresponding author: José A. Paixão. "Synthesis and magnetic studies of nanocrystalline Cu2OSeO3, a chiral topological magnet". Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 474 (2019): 122-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.10.120.
    10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.10.120
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Development of Novel Chiral and Topological Magnets". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114326.
  2. "Joule-Heating Effect for Erasing Information in PDLCs Devices with Memory". Master, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2016.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/04/10 A Comunicação de Ciência e o Jornalismo Científico na Comunidade Cultura e Arte SciComPT Congresso 2025
SciComPT - Rede de Comunicação de Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal)
2023/09/17 Thermoelectric properties of Cu12–xNixSb4S13–ySey tetrahedrite 19 European Conference on Thermoelectrics
(Praga, Czech Republic)
2023/01/20 Bem-vindos ao Mundo dos Materiais! Science School of Rómulo - Centro Ciência Viva da Universidade de Coimbra
Rómulo - Centro Ciência Viva da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/07/20 Thermoelectric optimization of tetrahedrite – co-doping with nickel and selenium VCT - Virtual Conference on Thermoelectrics 2022
VCT - Virtual Conference on Thermoelectrics 2022
2021/09/14 Development of Novel Chiral and Topological Magnets Magnetism in Portugal 2021
(Portugal)
2021/07/05 Magnetic skyrmions in GaM4X8 (M = V, Mo; X = S, Se) lacunar spinels YOUNG MULTIS - Multiscale Phenomena in Condensed Matter
Cracow, Poland
2021/05/20 Magnetic Skyrmions Dia da Investigação do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra
Departamento Física da Universidade de Coimbra Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/09/25 Study of NiS2 as p-type thermoelectric material 17th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT 2019)
ECT 2019 (Nicosia, Cyprus)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/03/19 - 2018/03/21 48èmes Journées des Actinides (JdA2018) and 12th School on the Physics and Chemistry of the Actinides (2018/03/19 - 2018/03/21)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal
2017/04/06 - 2017/04/07 DaySol17 - Industry Day of Printed Electronics and Solar Cells (2017/04/06 - 2017/04/07)
Conference (Other)
 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2015/02/06 - 2015/02/06 Jortec - Jornadas Tecnologicas em Engenharia Química e Bioquímica (2015/04/06 - 2015/04/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27 European Research Night
Exhibition
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24 European Research Night
Exhibition
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal
2020/11/27 - 2020/11/27 European Research Night
Exhibition
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal
2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 European Research Night
Exhibition
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal
2016/04/17 - 2016/04/17 Futurália National School Fair
Festival
 Futurália
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016/04/06 - 2016/04/06 Open Day of NOVA FCT 2016
Exhibition
 EXPO FCT
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012/04/13 - 2012/04/13 Open Day of NOVA FCT 2012
Exhibition
 EXPO FCT
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018/04/30 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Química Member
2017/11/01 - Current Comunidade Cultura e Arte Member and Contributing Writer

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/03/01 - 2022/06/01 Técnicas de Análise de Materiais / Métodos Experimentais na Matéria Condensada Mestrado em Engenharia Biomédica / Mestrado em Engenharia Física / Mestrado Em Física (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 Portugal em Direto - RTP1 European Research Night - Science Dating - C2TN

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/05/01 - 2023/07/31 Introduction to OECTs (Organic Electrochemistry Transistors) Gonçalo Fernandes
2020/07/01 - 2020/08/31 Synthesis, characterisation and magnetic studies of lacunar spinels Miguel Carvalho

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/04/06 - 2019/04/06 Olímpiadas da Química Junior - Universidade de Coimbra Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal