João Manuel Cunha Rodrigues

Penteada University Campus , Floor 0, Office 0

joaoc@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 108 / 5108

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have." by Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Biographical Notes

João Rodrigues is a Full Professor at the UMa/University of Madeira (Madeira Islands/Portugal), where he is responsible for inorganic/organometallic chemistry, nanochemistry, and nanomaterials. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry/Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 1999, with a thesis project titled "Synthesis of new organometallic materials with non-linear optical properties".

João Rodrigues is the Director of CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira/Madeira Chemistry Research Centre (National Research Laboratory, FCT/UID674), University of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal. From 2017 to 2020, he served as a Visiting Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering/Center for Nano Energy Materials, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. During this period, he was also a member of the Scientific Board of Exact Sciences and Engineering for the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). In June 2018, he integrated the Steering Committee of the Portugal-China Joint Innovation Centre for Advanced Materials (PCJICAM). In the same year, in August, he was invited as a Member of the international board of 111 Project - Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Scientific Innovation for Fiber Materials, from the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials (SKLFPM), Donghua University, Shanghai, China.

He is the principal investigator or a member of several national and international research projects and scientific networks. He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals, mainly from Q1 (h-index = 42, i10-index = 93). He has also written 6 book chapters and 19 proceeding papers.

ORCID (Connecting Research and Researchers): http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4552-1953

Publications

- 4th International Conference on Physics and Engineering Mathematics (ICPEM2023), 4th International Conference on Physics and Engineering Mathematics (ICPEM2023), 2023

- Biological Effects in Cancer Cells of Mono- and Bidentate Conjugation of Cisplatin on PAMAM Dendrimers: A Comparative Study., Camacho, Cláudia; Maciel, Dina; Tomás, Helena; Rodrigues, João, Pharmaceutics, 2023, 21 15

- Dendrimers and Dendrimer-based Nano-objects for Oncology Applications, Tomás H., Rodrigues J., 978-0-323-85671-3, Elsevier Science, 2023

- ESB2023 - 33rd Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, ESB2023 - 33rd Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, 2023

- I International Meeting ? Molecules 4 Life, I International Meeting ? Molecules 4 Life, 2023

- ICNF2023 - 6th International Conference on Natural Fibers, ICNF2023 - 6th International Conference on Natural Fibers, 2023

- IDS12 - 12th International Dendrimer Symposium, IDS12 - 12th International Dendrimer Symposium, 2023

- 9th CQM Annual Meeting, 978-989-54090-6-8, 9th CQM Annual Meeting, 2022

- A (un)conventional approach to fight cancer: the potential of Ruthenium metallodendrimers, Rodrigues J.,, Bogazici University, Department of Chemistry,, 2022

- A smartphone-adaptable fluorescent sensing tag for non-contact and visual monitoring of the freshness of fish., Jiang, Lirong; Ye, Huan; Ma, Dini; Rodrigues, João; Sheng, Ruilong; Min, Douyong, Analyst, 2022, 9 147

Academic Qualifications

- PhD in Química, 1999, Universidade de Lisboa/Faculdade de Ciências

Current Duties

- Coordenador do Centro de Química da Madeira