People

Patrícia Faísca, Ph.D

Assistant Researcher (Group Leader)
Centro de Física Matéria Condensada da Universidade de Lisboa (CFMC-UL)
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 LISBOA CODEX (local map)
PORTUGAL

Office: B2-26
Phone: + 351 21 7904819 (internal 4219), Fax: + 351 21 7954288
E-mail: (preferably) patnev@cii.fc.ul.pt or patricia.fn.faisca@gmail.com

Silvia Estácio, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow (co-advisor R. C. Guedes, iMed UL)
Licenciatura, Chemistry (U. Lisbon), Ph.D, Physical-Chemistry (U. Lisbon)
Postdoc, Chemistry (U. Sussex)



Research interests:DNA quadruplexes, protein folding and aggregation
E-mail: silvia@cii.fc.ul.pt

Heinrich Krobath, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow
(in collaboraion with E.I. Shakhnovich, Harvard University, USA)
Diploma, Technical Physics (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), Ph.D, Physics (Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)

Research interests:membrane physics, physics of protein folding and aggregation, statistical phenomena in biological physics induced by thermal noise, complex networks
E-mail: heinrich@cii.fc.ul.pt

Catarina Fernandes, M.Sc

Research fellow

Licenciatura, Physics (U. Lisbon), M.Sc, Physics (Neils Bohr Institute, U. Copenhagen, Denmark)

Research interests:physics of protein folding and aggregation, complex systems, chaos theory, quantum information and cosmology
E-mail: csfer@cii.fc.ul.pt

Miguel Soler, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

Bachelor degree, Chemistry (Universidad de Murcia, Spain), Ph.D, Physical-Chemistry (Universidad de Murcia, Spain), Post-doc, Physical-Chemistry (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)

Research interests: Molecular Dynamics, Computational and Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy, Chemical Reaction in Solution
E-mail: migsoler@cii.fc.ul.pt

Abiram Angamuthu, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

B.Sc, Physics (Bharathiar University, India), M.Sc, Physics (Bharathiar University, India), Ph.D, Physics (Bharathiar University, India)

Research interests: Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Biophysics
E-mail:abiram@cii.fc.ul.pt

Collaborators

In Portugal

• Dr. Cláudio Gomes, Protein Biochemistry folding & Stability Laboratory, ITQB-UNL
• Dr. Rui Travasso, Centro de Física Computacional, Universidade de Coimbra

Abroad

• Prof. Robin C. Ball, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, U.K.
• Prof. Marek Cieplak, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB, U.S.A
• Prof. Antonio Rey, Department of Physical Chemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Prof. Eugene Shakhnovich, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A.