Ana Cecilia Afonso Roque

Professor in Bioengineering at NOVA University of Lisbon

Speaker

Cecília Roque is a Full Professor in Bioengineering and head of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab at the School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. She has lead UCIBIO as a Director (2023-5) and currently serves as the Vice-Rector for Research and Advanced Training at NOVA.

Cecilia 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), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, University of Nantes, University of São Paulo, City University of New York and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She is active in several national and international scientific societies in the Biotechnology and Bioengineering fields.

Her research focus on biomimetics merging chemistry, biotechnology and engineering, and her work has been merited with several national and international distinctions.