People – PhotoChemistry @UC

Group Leader

Sérgio is the leader of the Photochemistry Group @ UC.

PhD in the Technical University of Lisbon (1996). Professor at the University of Coimbra.

Sérgio possesses over 30 years of experience in photochemistry, photophysics, and ultrafast kinetics. More recently, he has cultivated interests in the intersection of Chemistry & Art and has placed a particular emphasis on Energy Storage, particularly in the context of redox flow batteries.

In 2006, he received the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) Award – Vicente Seabra Medal in acknowledgment of the high-quality, original, and independent research conducted in the field of Chemistry in Portugal by an investigator under 40 years of age.

His H-index is 49 according to Google Scholar and H-index is 45 according to WoS-Publons, with more than 7900 citations and over 200 publications.

PhD, Junior Researcher

Junior Research Fellow (Grant 2021. 03217.CEECIND) since June 2022, and pos-doctoral researcher at the Photochemistry Group@UC since 2018.

Her research focus on the rational design of efficient organic luminophores, and then correlate structure-property of these compounds on different processes known to lead to enhanced light emission, such as aggregation induced emission (AIE).

She is also interested in developing new organic solar concentrators that will be responsible to harvest sunlight in smart windows.
Besides, she collaborates with the Organic Chemistry Group at UC, on the project Chem4LungCare (PTDC/QUI-QOR/0103/2021).