Cecília Roque is an Assistant Professor at Departamento de Química and head of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (Major in Biotechnology) and a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico.

Cecília has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and at the Catholic University of America, a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Cambridge) and at INESC-MN (Lisbon, Portugal).

Her research focus on biotechnology, namely on the development of novel affinity receptors towards important biopharmaceuticals, as well as on the design of smart-responsive platforms for bioseparation, biosensing and biomedical applications.

Cecília has been awarded the “1K Business Plan Competition” in 2001 (CEC, University of Cambridge), the “Programa de Estímulo à Investigação” in 2006 (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), the “Scientific Merit Award UNL-Santander Totta-Edição 2009/2010” in 2010 (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Santander Totta Bank) and the 1st Honorable mention from SHIC´11 (by Hovione).

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