Curriculum Vitae
João Simões
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- João Simões
Citation names
- Simões, João C. S.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F518-9AE1-A928
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9755-0129
Email addresses
- joao95simoes@gmail.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 910641191 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
- Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Nuclear Chemistry
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2018/09 - 2021/11/26
Concluded
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Marie Curie Innovative Training Network - European Joint Doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Terapia Fotodinâmica e Imagiologia Nuclear
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Université de Limoges, France BioEmTech, Greece "Radiolablled Porphyrinic Metalla-assemblies Linked to Cellulose Nanocrystals as PDT and Imaging Agents" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2016/09 - 2018
Concluded
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Química Medicinal (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"Novel Ring-Fused Chlorins as Promising PDT agents against cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2013 - 2016
Concluded
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Química Medicinal (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/04/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2018/09 - 2021 | Researcher (Research) | BioEmTech, Greece |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/04/01 - Current | CHEM4LUNGCARE
PTDC/QUI-QOR/0103/2021
Post-doc
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Ongoing
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| 2018/01 - 2021/12 | Design and photo-optimization of Photosensitizer for Human Health and Food security applications or "how light can save lives" | European Commission |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Coimbra Chemistry Center
UID/QUI/00313/2019
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2022/11/17 | Enhancing photophysical properties of BODIPYs through oxime/hydrazone: novel imaging agents | XXVI ENCONTRO GALEGO-PORTUGUÉS DE QUÍMICA
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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| 2021/06/28 | Radiolabelled Porphyrin Metalla-assemblies in Cellulose Nanocrystals as PDT Agents | 1st HighLIGHTing Science Meeting
Université de Limoges (Wroclaw, Poland)
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| 2021/04/28 | Radiolabelled Porphyrin Metalla-Assemblies in Cellulose Nanocrystals, A Theranostic Agent for PDT | 29th European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
LD organisation (France)
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| 2019/07/15 | Cellulose Nanocrystals as a Multipurpose Platform | Photodynamic Therapy Intersectorial Summer School
Université de Limoges (Limoges, France)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/05/27 - 2021/05/28 | A HighLIGHTing Science Meeting é um encontro organizado por estudantes de doutoramento com o objetivo de partilhar e disseminar
o conhecimento adquirido em diversas áreas da ciência, com o especial foco na Terapia Fotodinâmica. (2021/05/27 - 2021/05/28)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/22 - 2024/01/24 | Apresentação do Póster "Novel trans-A2B2 Porphyrins: from Oxime/Hydrazone a-Substituted Dipyrromethanes to meso-substituted
Functionalized Macrocycles"
Meeting
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15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/01/18 - 2024/01/20 | Apresentação do Póster "Avaliação Crítica das Atividades Práticas e de Laboratório no Ensino de Física: Um Estudo Longitudinal
do 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico ao Ensino Secundário, Considerando o Impacto da Pandemia de COVID-19 e das Escolhas Opcionais"
Meeting
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XX Encontro Nacional de Educação em Ciências
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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| 2023/11/06 - 2023/11/07 | Poster presentation
Workshop
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Synthesis&Catalysis Workshop 2023
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2023/07/24 - 2023/07/26 | Apresentação do Póster "Oxime functionalization towards the enhancement of photophysical properties of
BODIPYs"
Meeting
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XXVIII Encontro Nacional da SPQ
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2021/05/18 - 2021/05/18 | Apresentação do Póster "Radiolabelled Theranostic Agents in Cellulose Nanocrystals"
Conference
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The 5th Photodynamic Day
Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Turkey
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| 2021/05/05 - 2021/05/05 | Participação na segunda edição de Top Thesis Webinar Series on "Novel Radioligands for PET Imaging"
Conference
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Preclinical Characterization of Molecular Hallmarks of Huntington’s Disease through dynamic PET Imaging |
| 2021/03/09 - 2021/03/12 | Participação no Curso de Medicina Nuclear: The Physics of Medical Imaging
Workshop
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Physics of Medical Imaging Course |
| 2020/11/27 - 2020/11/29 | Participão no Webinar "Molecular testing along the cancer patient journey"
Congress
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12 the National Congress of the National Union Biosciences |
| 2020/10/12 - 2020/10/14 | Participação no evento "PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference"
Conference
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PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference
Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
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| 2020/08/24 - 2020/08/28 | Apresentação do Póster "Porphyrin Metalla-Assemblies in Cellulose Nanocrystals, an Innovative Theranostic Agent"
Meeting
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15th European Molecular Imaging Meeting |
| 2019/09/27 - 2019/09/27 | Participação na "European Researchers Night" com o objetivo de divulgar e disseminar conhecimento científico com o público
Meeting
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European Researchers Night
Université de Limoges, France
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| 2018/11/27 - 2018/11/30 | Participação no evento "Winter School Fundamentals of Photodynamic Therapy " visando a aquisição de conhecimento na área da
Terapia Fotodinâmica e a partilha do mesmo adquirido no âmbito do doutoramento até ao momento através de uma apresentação
oral informal.
Conference
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Winter School - Fundamentals of Photodynamic Therapy
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2018/06/18 - 2018/06/22 | Participação no evento "MedChem Train Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry" visando a aquisição de conhecimento na área da Terapia
Fotodinâmica.
Meeting
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MedChem Train – Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | Apresentação do Póster "Novel PEGylated 4,5,6,7-Tetrahydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine-fused Chlorins"
Meeting
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12th National Organic Chemistry Meeting - 5th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | Apresentação do Póster "A new generation of ring-fused chlorins as promising PDT agents"
Meeting
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6th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (PYCHEM)
Portuguese Society of Chemistry, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | Apresentação do Póster "Cytotoxicity of Novel Pyridine-fused Chlorins as promising PDT agents against oesophagus cancer cell
lines"
Congress
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3rd ASPIC International Congress
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | Apresentação do Póster "Cytotoxicity of Novel Pyridine-fused Chlorins as promising PDT agents against different cancer cell
lines"
Meeting
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YES (Young European Scientist) Meeting
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal
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Distinctions
Award
| 2021 | Best Poster award at the 5th Photodynamic Day
Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Turkey
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| 2019 | Prémio para Melhor Tese de Mestrado em Química Orgânica 2019
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2016 | Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes / 3% Best Students Award
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2014 | Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes / 3% Best Students Award
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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