Meet our
team

We have a true passion for science! Each and every one of our team members represents the committed spirit of our research activities!





Yury V. Kolen’ko

yury.kolenko@inl.int



Yury enjoys synthesis, investigation & application of unconventional nanomaterials.





Laura M. Salonen

laura.salonen@inl.int



Laura employs organic chemistry methods for the development of innovative nanomaterials for water treatment and catalysis.




Juliana Sousa

juliana.sousa@inl.int



Juliana has experience in several scientific fields; synthesis and functionalization of inorganic materials, catalysis and coatings.





Orlando Oliveira

orlando.oliveira@inl.int



Orlando works in the development of covalent organic frameworks with enhanced stability for catalysis.





Natalia Spera

natalia.spera@inl.int



Natalia has a more technical approach and enjoys working with synthesis and applications of sustainable coatings.





Clara Ponte

clara.ponte@inl.int



Clara is a Materials Chemist who is developing covalent organic frameworks for photocatalysis.





Isabel Oliveira

isabel.oliveira@inl.int



Isabel is a Biologist/Tissue Engineering who is developing functional coatings based on nanomaterials with infrared reflective properties.




Diana Alves

diana.alves@inl.int



Diana is a Biomedical Engineer who is developing functional coatings based on nanomaterials with hydrophobic properties.





Sandra Amaral

sandra.amaral@inl.int



Sandra is an organic chemist working on the development of nanomaterials for sustainable coatings.





Joana Araújo

joana.araujo@inl.int



Joana is a Chemical Engineer working on the development of COFs for the adsorption of pharmaceuticals pollutants from water.





Cátia Freitas

catia.freitas@inl.int



Cátia is a Material Scientist working on the development and characterisation of nanomaterials for catalysis.





Tiago Fernandes

tiago.fernandes@inl.int



Tiago is working with catalysts for energy-efficient anion-exchange membrane (AEM) for water electrolysis.





Mafalda Pina

mafalda.pina@inl.int



Mafalda is working with catalysts for Proton exchange Membranes (PEM) for water electrolysis.





Soraia Fernandes

soraia.fernandes@inl.int



Soraia is working with metal organic framework (MOFs) for capturing a greenhouse gas.





Ramsundar Mohan

ramsundar.mohan@inl.int



Ramsundar is working with the magnetic nanomaterials for spin polarized oxygen evolution reaction (OER).





María Poupard

maria.poupard@inl.int



Mafer is a Material Scientist who works on the synthesis of functional nanoporous materials.





Roma Raj

roma.raj@inl.int



Roma is a passionate material scientist with expertise in printed photovoltaic, particle synthesis, and self-healing coatings to renewable energy technology.




Siavash Alizadeh

siavash.alizadeh@inl.int



Siavash is a materials scientist, interested in solid-state electrochemistry. He is working on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. He believes in science to make a green world.




João Restivo

joao.restivo@inl.int



João’s work focuses in the development of nanostructured materials for environmental applications.





Isilda Amorim

isilda.amorim@inl.int



Isilda's major interest is the development of electrocatalysts for their application on electrochemical water splitting.





João Braga

joao.braga@inl.int



João is a biomedical engineer who is working in the valorisation of lithium mining by-products.





Julia Portela Pino

julia.portela@inl.int



Julia is working on chiral organic compounds to chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect on Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)






Zhipeng Yu

zhipeng.yu@inl.int



Zhipeng is working in the development of advanced materials and their applications in the field of electrochemical energy conversion.





Waqas Zaman

waqas.zaman@inl.int



Waqas is working on synthesizing efficient iridium-based materials for PEMWE.







Mouli Thalluri

mouli.thalluri@inl.int



Mouli works on development of supported electrocatalysts employing wet and vacuum based tools for their applications mainly focussed on Hydrogen energy sector.






Our Alumni:



Marcos Martínez




Diógenes Piva




Viviana Sousa




Liliana Gonçalves




Adria Perez




Riccardo Zema




Jenni Jarju




Pablo Blanco




Nadia Licciardello




Roberto D'Amato




Krystal Cid




Aida Díez




Juanjo Ocampo




Bruna Gonçalves




Süleyman Kudret




Ana Catarina Lima




Magali Rego




Ivan Nuñez Perez




Zexuan Wang




Javier García




Silvia Escudero




Micaela Lavender




Natália Vilaça




Nagendra Chauhan




Rajesh Reddy




Olumide Ayodele




Vanesa Romero




Niklas Bennedsen




Yasmine Ziouani




Dallas Mann




Sara Barros




Udayabhaskararao Thumu




Tiago Marinho




Francesca Scalerandi




Elena Igonina




Anneloes Berghuis




Marek Piotrowski




Diogo Abreu




Vanessa Cardoso




Miguel Franco




Renato Gonçalves




Noelia González




Bryan Owens-Baird




Luiz Felipe Souza




Alice Boarino





Carlo Resini


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