(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Ana Lúcia Marques Batista de Carvalho has a PhD in Biosciences (2017) by University of Coimbra and her Master in Biochemistry in 2010 by University of Coimbra with her Master Thesis being developed at Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche Alessandro Rossi Fanelli. Presently she is a Junior Researcher at Unidade de I&D Química-Física Molecular of the University of Coimbra within the CEEC 2017 call. She has published 39 articles in journals with peer review with a total of 526 citations and H-index of 14 (search done by author Batista de Carvalho, A.L.M.). Supervised or co-supervised several MSc and BSc students. She is presently co-supervisor of 3 PhD student. She participated in 4 projects and is presently a member of two funded R&D Project NeedfoRSpeed (2022.03336.PTDC) and BetterBone (2022.04286.PTDC). She is an Associated member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), belongs to the Clinical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnosis (CLIRSPEC) as well as to the Portuguese Society of Biochemistry (SPB). She has expertise in applying vibrational spectroscopy (FTIR (either benchtop or Syncrothron radiation), Raman and with neutrons) to the study of biological samples such as human cells and tissues. She is currently conducting research on the identification, using vibrational spectroscopy, of early liver rejection biomarkers in liver biopsies demonstrating scientific independence with 2 papers published as senior author and 6 as corresponding author . She is also enrolled in the design of Pt/Pd-based anticancer agents.