Natércia Lopes

Natércia Rodrigues Lopes

assistant researcher

AAG-1464-2021

Web of Science profile

iBB Group: bsirg

natercia.rodrigues@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: spectroscopy, photophysics, photochemistry, lasers

Short Bio:

Natércia Rodrigues Lopes is a junior researcher at iBB whose research focuses on the photophysics of various molecules of interest, from anti-malarial drugs to chemosensors. She obtained an MChem degree in Chemistry from the University of Leicester (UK) in 2014, followed by a PhD at the University of Warwick (UK). Her thesis, titled 'Ultrafast Photoprotection mechanisms: expediting the molecular design of sunscreen agents' was awarded the 2018 Science Faculty Thesis Prize. She was as postdoc at Warwick before becoming a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Lipotec (Barcelona, Spain) between 2020-2022. Natércia is also a passionate educator and award-winning teacher.

Research Focus:

Photophysics and laser spectroscopy applications

R23-0476123323: Mapping and controlling the chemical dynamics of singlet oxygen release in endoperoxides, RSC Research Fund
2022.04766.CEECIND: Novel artemisinins as enhanced sources of singlet oxygen

SUNNRL: Novel Photoprotective Cosmetics: From Fundamental Science to Product (MSCA-IF-2018), https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/844177

BoostCrop: Boosting Crop Growth using Natural Product and Synthesis Enabled Solar Harvesting (FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020), https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/828753

Rodrigues, N. d. N., et al. (2021). Effects of substituent position on aminobenzoate relaxation pathways in solution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 23242-23255. DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03759E

Rodrigues, N. d. N., et al. (2021). Intermolecular Interactions and In Vitro Performance of Methyl Anthranilate in Commercial Sunscreen Formulations. AppliedChem, 1(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.3390/appliedchem1010005

Abiola, T. T., Rodrigues, N. d. N., et al. (2020). New Generation UV-A filters: Understanding their photodynamics on a human skin mimic. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(1), 337-344. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03004

Rodrigues, N. d. N., et al. (2018). Wavepacket insights into the photoprotection mechanism of the UV filter methyl anthranilate. Nature Communications, 9(1), 5188. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07681-1

Rodrigues, N. d. N., et al. (2018). Photophysics of the sunscreen ingredient menthyl anthranilate and its precursor methyl anthranilate: A bottom-up approach to photoprotection. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 353, 376-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.11.042

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