(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Mafalda Sarraguça graduated in 2000 in Industrial Chemistry in the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in the University of Coimbra. In 2004 she finished her master¿s degree in Chemistry, specialization in Chemical Control in the same Faculty. In 2010 Mafalda Sarraguça completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, specialization in Analytical Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharmacy in the University of Porto (FFUP). At present time Mafalda Sarraguça is a researcher in LAQV@REQUIMTE/FFUP. She is also an invited professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto. Her main research activity is focused on supramolecular chemistry to improve drugs properties such as solubility, palatability, mechanical properties using green chemistry approaches. She is proficient in several solid-state analytical methods, such as mid and near infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. Another filed of expertise of Mafalda Sarraguça is the use of multivariate analysis to improve industrial processes focused on the pharmaceutical industry. Overall, she is the co-author of 44 peer-reviewed publications (more than 1200 citations and 18-h index) in international journals, 11 of them as correspondent author. She is also the co-author of 4 invited book-chapters. Mafalda Sarraguça participated in 7 scientific projects has researcher, 3 nationals and 4 internationals (one European). She was the co-PI of a FCT project (Honey2KILL). She was a member of several COST Actions.