About
Carla Queirós (CQ) obtained her BSc. (2005) & MSc. (2008) in Chemistry at the Univ. of Porto (UP) and completed her PhD. in Sustainable Chemistry in 2018 (joint programme between UP, Nova Univ. of Lisbon and Univ. of Aveiro). In 2023, she completed a Post-Graduation in Management of Development Cooperation Projects at the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP-Porto).
CQ work experience includes: i) project manager functions at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) – EU funded projects LETSGROW "Bridging Academia and Industry for Sustainable Agri-Food Solutions", and CROSSPATHS “; ii) research work at LAQV-REQUIMTE (FCUP) – projects MOFsENS (M-ERA-NET/0005/2014) and X-Sensors (PTDC/QUI-QOR/29426/2017) and at UCP’s STARGATE EU-funded project. CQ was co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the project “Plastics for nanomaterials: from waste bottles to MOF-based nanomaterials using sustainable approaches and was granted a BRF by PARSUK (Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK) in which she collaborated and did an internship at John Moores University in Liverpool (UK) with Dr. Francesca Giuntini.
CQ is co-author of 31 articles (h-index 14) and 3 book chapters, among other publications; and supervised, co-supervised and mentored several undergraduate, BSc, MSc students, and PhD students. CQ is a member of SPQ and of Sensors 100 Network.
CQ expertise includes: i) design, synthesis and characterization of new colorimetric/fluorescent compounds and coordination polymers; ii) materials application studies as sensors towards metal ions, amines and gases, and heterogeneous catalysts; and iii) preparation of solid matrices, including thin-films and silica nanoparticles.
CQ initial’s collaboration with INESC TEC from 2023 focused on the agricultural sciences field, namely precision agriculture, involving the determination/quantification of N, P and K in fertilizers/plant samples and data augmentation strategies for reagent-less spectroscopy. CQ is currently an Assistant Researcher, within CRIIS, developing work in the project entitled "Reagent-less Point-of-Measurement Systems for Plant Physiology-based Targeted Precision Agriculture (MyPlant) – CEEC 7th Edition.