Maria Elisabete C D Real Oliveira is an Associated Professor with Habilitation at Physics Department of UMinho. She has completed her BSc in Physics, UCoimbra, Portugal, 1975, and her PhD at the University of Salford, UK/University of Minho in 1986. She was Head of the Master’s Degree in Biophysics and Bionanosystems, UM (2009-2014), Head of the Research Group Atomic Molecular and Optics Physics, Centre of Physics, UM (2013-present) and President of the Group of Colloids and Polymer (Portuguese Chemical Society), since 2013. She is author of more than 54 full publications (ISI) in repute journals (h index-16) and author of 2 patents. Maria Elisabete C D Real Oliveira is an Associated Professor with Habilitation at Physics Department of UMinho. She has completed her BSc in Physics, UCoimbra, Portugal, 1975, and her PhD at the University of Salford, UK/University of Minho in 1986. She was Head of the Master’s Degree in Biophysics and Bionanosystems, UM (2009-2014), Head of the Research Group Atomic Molecular and Optics Physics, Centre of Physics, UM (2013-present) and President of the Group of Colloids and Polymer (Portuguese Chemical Society), since 2013. She is author of more than 54 full publications (ISI) in repute journals (h index-16) and author of 2 patents.

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