Research group
Environmental Chemistry
Position
Academic Staff
Simone Morais has a Ph.D. (1998) in Chemical Engineering from the faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and the Habilitation title in Chemical and Biological Engineering (2022). She is Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal) and permanent researcher at REQUIMTE–LAQV (http://www.requimte.pt/laqv/). Her research fields cross sensors and biosensors; environmental monitoring; human biomonitoring; green technologies; air pollution; circular economy; and analytical chemistry. S. Morais co-authored about 180 ISI papers (h=37) and about 35 book chapters, having supervised several PhD and post-doctoral fellows, and having participated and coordinated several projects.
Representative Publications
Biosensor for direct bioelectrocatalysis detection of nitric oxide using nitric oxide reductase incorporated in carboxylated single-walled carbon nanotubes/lipidic 3 bilayer nanocomposite
10.1016/j.bioelechem.2019.01.010
Third-generation electrochemical biosensor based on nitric oxide reductase immobilized in a multiwalled carbon nanotubes/1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate nanocomposite for nitric oxide detection
10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.074
Children environmental exposure to particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and biomonitoring in school environments: A review on indoor and outdoor exposure levels, major sources and health impacts
10.1016/j.envint.2018.12.052
Current overview and perspectives on carbon-based (bio)sensors for carbamate pesticides electroanalysis
10.1016/j.trac.2019.115779
