Research group
Chemistry and Bioactivity
Position
PhD student
Ana Luísa C. Brandão has graduated in chemistry and has an MSc in Forensic chemistry from the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra. She is currently a PhD student in Biochemistry, a branch of Bioscience, in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra. Her current research focuses mainly on the chemical analysis of liver tissues by vibrational spectroscopy and collaborates with microplastic and burned bone studies.
Representative Publications
Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Effect of Pd2Spm against Prostate Cancer through Vibrational Microspectroscopies
10.3390/ijms24031888
Infrared Spectroscopy to Assess Manufacturing Procedures of Bone Artefacts from the Chalcolithic Settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Portugal)
10.3390/app13148280
Microplastics ingestion and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by breeding seabirds in the east tropical Atlantic: Associations with trophic and foraging proxies (δ15N and δ13C)
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168664
Influence of paternal factors on plastic ingestion and brominated chemical exposure in East Tropical Atlantic Procellariid chicks
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173815