Bárbara Simões Email & Phone Number

Oxford, Gb

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Osler is a UK-based diagnostics company whose purpose is to enable anyone, anywhere to access, understand, and act on their health, to live healthier, happier, and longer lives.Osler has developed the Osler Origin – a ‘portable lab’ that can provide lab-quality diagnostics to anyone, anywhere, at any time. The Osler Origin will offer a wide portfolio of diagnostic tests and serve all major healthcare settings, globally.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Theme: Smart Switchable Biological Surfaces for On-demand BiosensingEthesis available here: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12781/Supervisor: Prof. Paula MendesDescription: Designed and experimentally optimized electrically responsive surfaces for control of specific interactions between nanobody-antigen structures.Skills: SAMs; ellipsometry; contact angle; XPS; SPR; E-SPR; copper catalysed alkyne-azide click chemistry; thiol-ene chemistry; EDC/NHS coupling; TLC; potentiometry; TOF-SIMs; OrbiSIMs; circular dichroism.Publication: B. S. Gomes, B. Simões and P. M. Mendes, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018, 2, 0120Collaborations & Grants:- Started a collaboration with Dr. Paul Mulheran and Dr. Karina Kubiak-Ossowska (Strathclyde University, Glasgow UK), in order to perform Molecular Dynamics Simulations and learn NAMD and VMD softwares- Earned a travel grant from PGR development funding, 200£Conferences & research meetings: - Bioinspired Nanomaterials- RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Interest Group Early Career, Researcher Meeting, 2019, University of Strathclyde, UK, speaker- Surface Science day, 2018, University of Birmingham, UK, Best Poster Award- Surface Science day 2017, University of Liverpool, UK, poster- STEM industry transition careers session, UK, attendee- Midlands Electrochemists meeting, 2018, University of Birmingham, UK, attendee- 12th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Post-graduate symposium, University of Cambridge, UK, attendeeOther responsabilities:Tensiometer Researcher AssistantSPR researcher assistantLab Assistant - Optimized inventory by monitoring for product shortages and ensuring efficient service usage.University Open day assistant at Chemical Engineering (2018)https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/chemical-engineering/energy-chemical/nanoengineering-surface-chemistry/group-members.aspx

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Established maintenance routines and kept the equipment in full operation by monitoring equipment's efficiency. Created and organized theoretical and hands-on training sessions. Trained over 20 people.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Casual hours, in parallel with PhD position.Subjects of Thermodynamics & Materials - 1st year Chemical EngineeringMass, Heat and Momentum Transport - 2nd year Chemical Engineering

Enschede Area, Netherlands

Developed a microfluidic device for blood vessels realization and characterization.Skills: PDMS manipulation; soft lithography; microfluidics; actuation of fluids; collagen type I manipulations passive pumping; viscous finger patterning; cell culture; HUVECs; metabolic assays; cell tracker assay; live/dead assay; cell counting; fluorescence and confocal imaging;Software: Clewin5; GraphPad prism; COMSOL microfluidics; LaTeX; NIS elements confocal software; ImageJ Check out the website of Dr. Severine Le Gac, my MSc. supervisor at Twente University. http://www.severinelegac.com/

Luneburg

AFM (JPK software) were used for nanoindentation tests in different types of fibers. Organizer and coach for AFM at the summer school for high school students "Nanotechnologies 2015".

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Micro and nanotechnologies Techniques course: processes of constructing a spinvalve sensor - magnetoresistive sensor.Development of skills on (photo)lithography (soft and hard), etching, liftoff, film deposition, SU-8, magnetic thermal annealing;Those months were spent inside a Cleanroom.

Tavira

Master'S Degree, Bioengeneering And Nanosystems

Internship, Nanotecnologia

Electrospinning, AFM, JPK software

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Master Thesis - Experimental Work, Microfluidics And Tissue Engineering

Experimental work for Master Thesis. Development of a microfluidic device to realization and characterization of blood vessels