Biography

Eliana M.F. Vieira is an Assistant Researcher and Integrated member at the Center for Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS) and LABBELS Associate Laboratory of University of Minho (UMinho). She completed the PhD in Physics (2013), based on semiconductor materials, and the BSc Degree in Education of Physics and Chemistry (2009) at UMinho. She received 4 awards for the best student of the course. After PhD, she has pursued her career in the scientific field of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering at the Dept.Industrial Electronics of UMinho. Her research focuses on the investigation, fabrication and application of new nanomaterials for energy harvesting technologies (TE generators and sensors, photodetectors, and magneto-optical sensors). Particular emphasis is placed on structure and properties relationships in nanostructures for enhanced nano/micro devices. She was awarded, in 2019, with a contract under the Transitional Rule DL 57/2016 (https://doi.org/10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1377/CT0001) for 6 years. During her professional activities, she has supervised 3 MSc theses, 3 master grants, 1 PhD thesis and 2 students project, that are already finished. She is currently supervising 2 MSc and 2 PhD students (FCT grants) related with OPMs for neural imaging applications, and metasurfaces for high-performance CMOS Image Sensors in automotive applications. She is author/co-author of 39 articles (3 more submitted) in several prestigious international journals (17 papers in the last 5 years, 6 papers with IF>10), 6 papers as proceedings, 2 patents (PT and International), having more than 500 citations and h-index of 13 (Scholar) and 11 (Scopus). She participated as arguer of 11 master academic degrees and 1 doctoral degree in different academic institutions, as arguer of 4 PhD thesis plans and as monitoring committee of an Eu-funded project (WiPTherm project - funding from the European Union Horizon 2020). She participated in several oral and poster presentations in several conferences. She is a scientific reviewer in recognized scientific journals. She interacted with >100 national and international co-authors in scientific publications. She has international experience from international stays, namely in Italy (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna), Croatia (Rudjer Boskovic Institute), France (CEMES-CNRS and University of Toulouse), Spain (Instituto de Óptica, CSIC), Prague (Charles University), Romania (University of Bucharest), Poland (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology) and UK (University of Oxford) with recognized specialists in the scientific area. She was an invited speaker of the Symposium on Advances in Energy Materials at the School of Engineering and Materials science Queen Mary University of London. She was evaluator of funding applications of National Fellowship Program-Graduate Woman in Science (2023). EMF Vieira has teaching experience at the Dept. of Industrial Electronics. She was involved in 7 R&D funded projects: (1) Micro&NanoFabs@PT-Micro and Nanofabrication Research Infrastructure Project, 2017-21 (IR, CMEMS-UMinho); (2) In vivo Optical Coherence Tomography and Raman Spectroscopy for diagnosis of Colon-Rectal Cancer, 2018-21 (Co-IR); (3) New Nanogenerators for Thermal Energy Harvesting, 2016-20 (team member); (4) Neural probes equipped with electrical interaction, optical and wireless communication to target neurons control, 2018-19 (team member); (5) Next generation monitoring of coastal ecosystems in a scenario of global change 2016-20 (team member); (6) Ferroelectric (pseudo)-binary oxides nanofilms for flexible and ultrafast pulsed power electronics, 2023-24 (team member); (7) Nanoscaled ferroelectric (pseudo)-binary oxide thin film supercapacitors for flexible and ultrafast pulsed power electronics- 2022-25 (IR, CMEMS-UMinho).