Joana Queiroz de Mesquita Guimarães

Dr. Joana Queiroz de Mesquita Guimarães
Post-Doc Position in the University of Minho 
Center for Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS-UMinho) Campus de Azurém 
Portugal

Joana Mesquita-Guimarães have graduated in Ceramic and Glass Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her PhD was in Chemical Sciences by the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Her PhD was integrated into an international project with the National Research Council of Canada and with the company Pratt & Whitney Canada. After, as a Post-Doc, she integrated two national projects: one with the University of Aveiro and the company Atlantis S.A. and later the other with the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil with University of Minho.

Currently, Dr Joana Mesquita-Guimarães have a Post-Doc position in the University of Minho and she is a collaborator on the Center for Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS), an associate laboratory that in 2013 was considered a Center of Excellence by FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Along these years, she has participated in 2 international and 4 national R&D projects. Dr Joana Mesquita-Guimarães was teaching at the Royal School of Glass of La Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain, on the topic of Materials and technology applied to the glassmaker sector. She co-supervised 5 final career works that have evolved to 2 ISI articles (one on Top 5) and 2 that are in progress. She has 20 ISI publications in Q1 journals (3 on top 5 (≥ 95% percentile)), 1 Spanish patent, and 3 chapters book, all as the first author. She is a reviewer for the ISI Journals: Surface and coatings technology, Elsevier Publishing and the RSC Advances, from the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing. She was a member of the Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio and currently, she is a member of the European Ceramic Society.

Currently, Joana Mesquita-Guimarães is researching on biomaterials synthesis of mesoporous bioactive glasses with anti-biofilm properties, carbon nanomaterials and bone grafts and dental prosthesis. She has experienced cell culture on In Vitro tests. In the past, her work was focused on the producing of ceramic composites and analysis of their mechanical properties.