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 has been, since 2006, the Director of CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira/Madeira Chemistry Research Centre, a National Research Laboratory (FCT?UID674) hosted by the University of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal. In August 2018, he was nominated invited 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. In June 2018, he was invited to integrate the Steering Committee of the Portugal-China Joint Innovation Centre for Advanced Materials (PCJICAM). Since 2017, he has belonged to the Scientific Board of Exact Sciences and Engineering of the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). In the same year (June 2017), he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering/Center for Nano Energy Materials, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, and was one of the founder members of the International Dendritic and Hyperbranched Polymer Application Innovation Center sponsored by Weihai CY Dendrimer Technology Co., Ltd., China.

At the University of Madeira, he is responsible for the areas of inorganic and organometallic chemistry, nanochemistry, and nanomaterials. His primary research interests are based on the design, synthesis, and characterization of molecular materials, namely, dendrimers/metallodendrimers, molecular wires, composites, nanoparticles, and polymers for optoelectronics and biomedical applications (e.g., emerging and infectious diseases and oncology).

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

- Director of the Master in - diretor.nn.2c@mail.uma.pt

- Coordenador do Centro de Química da Madeira