Frederico Ferreira

Frederico Castelo Ferreira

Associate Professor

K-8642-2012

Web of Science profile

iBB Group: scerg

frederico.ferreira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: Sustainability, Bioprinting, Cellular Agriculture, Stem Cells, Biomaterials

Short Bio:

Frederico Ferreira, an Associate Professor (Bioengineering Department@IST), leads at iBB, the Focus Areas in Process/Devices and Materials Engineering for Health and Sustainability (pMESH and dMESH). He got his PhD from Imperial College London (2024) and holds a MBA (2008) and a 5-year BSc in Chemistry (2-years specialization in Biotechnology, 1999), both from Nova Lisbon. His research lines are: 1. Biomaterials and bioreactors, namely designing electrical and magnetic stimuli responsive nanotechnologies, scaffolds and bio-inks for tissue engineering and cancer therapies; 2. Sustainability separation and biorefineries, focused on pharmaceutics and biosurfactants production and purification; and 3. Cellular Agriculture, focused on fish-based food products with lower ecological impact.

Research Focus:

Research on sustainable processes and biomaterials for advanced health and food, with expertise on tissue engineering, physical responsive materials development, and processes design and optimization.

FEASTs: Fostering European Cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solution (horizon-cl6-2023-farm2fork-01-13) https://feasts-innovation.eu/

SURFs UP – Safe and sustainable by design microbial and lignin-based biosurfactants sourced from sustainable feedstock for home, personal care and agrochemical application, (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-05)

CleanFish: New strategies for sustainable production of cell-based fish (Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, reference: 2022.07677.PTDC)

OptiBioScaffold: Stimuli optimization in bi-tissue scaffolds: from mathematical and computational modelling to experimental validation, (Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, reference: PTDC/EME-SIS/4446/2020)

Algae2Fish Seabass whole-cut cultured fish fillet production, Good Food Institute (GFI)

N.T. Faria, S. Marques, F. C. Ferreira, C. Fonseca, Production of xylanolytic enzymes by Moesziomyces spp. using xylose, xylan and brewery’s spent grain as substrates, New Biotechnol., 49 (2019), 137-143. ISSN 1871-6784. DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2018.11.001

M. C. Amores de Sousa, C. A. V. Rodrigues, I. A. F. Ferreira, M. M. Diogo, R. J. Linhardt, J. M. S. Cabral, F. C. Ferreira, Functionalization of electrospun nanofibers and fiber alignment enhance neural stem cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 8 (2020) 1215. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.580135

T. Esteves, A. T. Mota, C. Barbeitos, K. Andrade, C. A.M. Afonso, F. C. Ferreira, A study on lupin beans process wastewater nanofiltration treatment and lupanine recovery, J Clean. Prod. 277 (2020) 123349. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123349

F.F.F. Garrudo, D.E.S. Nogueira, C.A.V. Rodrigues, F.A Ferreira, P. Paradiso, R. Colaço, A. C. Marques, J. M.S. Cabral, J. Morgado, R. J. Linhardt, F. C. Ferreira*, Electrical stimulation of neural-differentiating iPSCs on novel coaxial electroconductive nanofibers. Biomater. Sci., 2021, 9 (2021) 5359 DOI: 10.1039/D1BM00503K

P. Marcelino, J.C. Silva, C.S Moura, J. Meneses, R. Cordeiro, N. Alves, P. Pascoal-Faria, F.C. Ferreira, A Novel Approach for Design and Manufacturing of Curvature-Featuring Scaffolds for Osteochondral Repair. Polymers 2023, 15, 2129. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15092129

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