Alexandra M. M. Antunes (AMMA) is Assistant Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), since 2022. Her skills are the result of a strong core background in Organic Chemistry, combined with industry/academia R&D experience, which provided additional solid and unique expertise in Chemical Toxicology and Analytical tools. She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2003 and subsequently joined the Pharmaceutical Company BIAL, as the responsible for the NMR facilities. Since 2008, she has been a researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), where she established her research line in Chemical Toxicology, under the scope of Ciência, IFCT and CEEC individual grants. In 2014, she was awarded with the CEFIC-LRI AWARD, one of Europe’s largest research grants for early career toxicologists, and in 2017 she cofounded the startup company Clarify Analytical.
Personal Information
Place and Date of Birth : Santa Maria (Azores), 6th September 1971
Nationality: Portuguese
Married and mother of two sons
Nationality: Portuguese
Married and mother of two sons
Education
Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL), Portugal, 2003.
M.Sc. (Industrial Organic Chemistry), FCT-UNL, Portugal, 1998.
B.Sc. (Chemistry), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (FC-UL), Portugal, 1994.
M.Sc. (Industrial Organic Chemistry), FCT-UNL, Portugal, 1998.
B.Sc. (Chemistry), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (FC-UL), Portugal, 1994.
Research and Professional Experience
Aug 2022- present
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engeneering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico
Nov 2019 -Out 2020
Partial Time Invited Assistant Professor - Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
2017-2023
Co-Founder of the company Clarify Analytical, LDA
2014-2022
Principal Researcher, iFCT & CEEC Ind, Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (CQE-IST), Lisboa, Portugal.
2008-2013
Assistant Researcher, Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (CQE-IST), Lisboa, Portugal.
2007-2008
Invited Assistant Professor (Organic Chemistry), Chemistry Department, FCT-UNL.
2006-2008
Assistant Researcher, (Physical Organic Chemistry), REQUIMTE/CQFB, Chemistry Department, FCT-UNL.
2004-2006
Post Doctoral Grantee (Chemical Toxicology: Mechanisms of Xenobiotic Genotoxicity), CQE-IST, Supervisor: M. Matilde Marques, Co-Supervisor: P.P. Santos.
2004-2005
Partial Time Teaching Assistant (60%) (Organic Chemistry), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal.
2002-2004
R&D Chemist, BIAL, Porto, Portugal. In charge of the NMR facilities.
2000-2002
Teaching Assistant, (Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry), Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares (ISEIT), Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal.
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engeneering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico
Nov 2019 -Out 2020
Partial Time Invited Assistant Professor - Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
2017-2023
Co-Founder of the company Clarify Analytical, LDA
2014-2022
Principal Researcher, iFCT & CEEC Ind, Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (CQE-IST), Lisboa, Portugal.
2008-2013
Assistant Researcher, Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (CQE-IST), Lisboa, Portugal.
2007-2008
Invited Assistant Professor (Organic Chemistry), Chemistry Department, FCT-UNL.
2006-2008
Assistant Researcher, (Physical Organic Chemistry), REQUIMTE/CQFB, Chemistry Department, FCT-UNL.
2004-2006
Post Doctoral Grantee (Chemical Toxicology: Mechanisms of Xenobiotic Genotoxicity), CQE-IST, Supervisor: M. Matilde Marques, Co-Supervisor: P.P. Santos.
2004-2005
Partial Time Teaching Assistant (60%) (Organic Chemistry), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal.
2002-2004
R&D Chemist, BIAL, Porto, Portugal. In charge of the NMR facilities.
2000-2002
Teaching Assistant, (Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry), Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares (ISEIT), Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal.
