Research group
Bio(chemical) Process Engineering
Position
Researcher
F. Cruz completed his PhD at IST with the thesis “Planetary Applications of Thermodynamics”, under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Calado. He has participated in several research projects, both in Portugal and in the U.K. Dr. Cruz has a track record of 41 communications presented at international conferences, 24 papers published in international peer reviewed journals and 1 invited paper, almost all of them as first and/or corresponding author; he has also been a referee for international journals and a visiting scholar at the Univ. Wisconsin-Madison (U.S.A., 2010-2011) and at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany, 2003). His work focus on the physical-chemistry and statistical mechanics of DNA, carbon nanotubes and clathrate hydrate phases.
Representative Publications
Endohedral confinement of a DNA dodecamer onto pristine carbon nanotubes and the stability of the canonical B form
10.1063/1.4881422
The role of the intermolecular potential on the dynamics of ethylene confined in cylindrical nanopores
10.1039/c1ra00019e
Structure and Thermodynamics of Empty Clathrate Hydrates Below the Freezing Point of Water
10.1039/d1cp00893e
