Ana Cecília Roque, PhD

Cecília Roque is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in Bioengineering at Departamento de Química, researcher at UCIBIO & i4HB and head of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab at the School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (Major in Biotechnology) and a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico. Cecília has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and at the Catholic University of America, a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Cambridge) and at INESC-MN (Lisbon, Portugal), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, University of Nantes, University of São Paulo, City University of New York and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She is active in several national (Biotechnology Portuguese Society and Biophysics Portuguese Society) international scientific societies (European Federation of Biotechnology and International Society for Molecular Recognition). Her research focus on biomimetics merging chemistry, biotechnology and engineering, and her work has been merited with several national and international distinctions. She has been awarded Starting and Proof-of-concept grants from the European Research Council (2014, 2022), and is currently leading a FET-OPEN project.