CURRICULUM VITAE
Joana Filipa Pereira da Silva Gomes
Personal information
Education
Birth
15-06-1978, Portugal
15/11/2006 Bremen, Germany
PhD degree in Biochemical Engineering, Liposomes for biosensing, at
International University Bremen, Jacobs University as of spring 2007.
Address
Rua D. Dinis n.º15 Arcozelo
4750 Barcelos, Portugal
14 – 16/06/2004 Genoa, Italy
Course in Principles of Fluorescence Techniques (University of Genoa).
E-mail
[email protected]
1996 – 2001 Porto, Portugal
Chemical Engineering degree at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade
do Porto (FEUP).
Professional information
Address
International University Bremen
Research II, Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen, Germany
Phone
0049 421 200 3151
E-mail
[email protected]
Professional Experience
08/2004 – Today Bremen, Germany
PhD Student in Biochemical Engineering at International University Bremen,
Jacobs University as of spring 2007.
12/2002 – 08/2004 Toulouse, France
Researcher in the European Network Nanocapsules with funcionalized
surfaces and walls (HPRN – CT – 2000 – 00159) at IPBS (Institut de
Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale).
2001 – 05/2001 Barcelos, Portugal
Training program to evaluate the chemical efficiency of flocculation/coagulation in
a waste treatment plant.
Teaching experience
Organizing experience
24/06 – 01/07/2006
Bremen, Germany
Co-organizer of the Summer
School Complex materials:
cooperative projects of the
natural, engineering and
biosciences.
2004 – 2006 Bremen, Germany
•Lab rotations supervisor on Biochemical Engineering undergraduate program.
•Lab courses supervisor on Biological Recognition and Nanomolecular
Science graduate programs.
•Supervisor on Biophysics lab courses.
•Supervisor of the master thesis Novel method of preparation of liposomebased nanocapsules.
Publications
Stable polymethacrylate nanocapsules from ultraviolet light induced
template radical polymerization of unilamellar liposomes, J. GOMES, A.
SONNEN, A. KRONENBERGER, J.FRITZ, M. COELHO, D. FOURNIER, C.
FOURNIER-NÖEL, M. MAUZAC, M. WINTERHALTER; LANGMUIR 2006,
22(18), 7755-7759 (Research article).
Liposome – Based Nanocapsules, T. RUYSSCHAERT, M. GERMAIN, J.
GOMES, D. FOURNIER, G. SUKHORUKOV, W. MEIER, M.
WINTERHALTER, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, 2004, Vol. 3, nº 1
(Conference proceeding).
Polyelectrolyte coated unilamellar magnetic liposomes, J. GOMES, A.
RANK, A. KRONENBERGER, M. WINTERHALTER, Y. RAMAYE (manuscript
in preparation)
Fields of expertise
Conferences
• Lipid/polymer vesicles
preparation
• Functionalization, stabilization
and stabilization of liposomes
• Vesicles characterization
• Chemistry of biological systems
• Microfluidics
• Nanotechnology
• Pollution control systems
• Transport phenomena
24/06-01/07/2006 Bremen, Germany
Summerschool “Complex materials: cooperative projects of the natural,
engineering and biosciences”
•Stable polymethacrylate nanocapsules from ultraviolet light induced
template radical polymerization of unilamellar liposomes”, J. GOMES,
seminar.
•Liposome properties: size distribution and zeta potential J. GOMES,
practical course.
18-25/07/2003 Bremen, Germany
European Summerschool on Nanocapsules with functionalized surfaces
and walls, J. GOMES, seminar.
Communications
Technical skills
•Dynamic Light Scattering
•Zetametry
•Fluorescence Microscopy
•Confocal microscopy
7 – 09/08/2006 Strasbourg, France
BASF Symposium on Bioinspired Meterials for the Chemical Industry
Multifunctional Liposomes: Controlled permeability and micromanipulation,
Y. RAMAYE, J. GOMES, T: MACH, C: CHIMAREL, H: WEINGART, R.
PALANKAR, T. RUYSSCHAERT, J. FRITZ, D. FOURNIER, M. WINTERHALTER.
18-22/02/2006 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
50th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
Multifunctional Liposomes: Controlled permeability and micromanipulation,
J. GOMES, Y. RAMAYE, T. RUYSSCHAERT, JÜRGEN FRITZ, G.
SUKHORUKOV, D. FOURNIER, M. WINTERHALTER.
Computer literate
•Fortran 90
•MATLAB
•SIMULINK
•ASPEN Plus
03/2005 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nanoscale Dechema Arbeitsausschusses “ Chemische Nanotechnologie” und “
Dechema-Fachsektion Nanotechnologie“ Surfaces and engineering
Functionalization of nanocapsules, Y. RAMAYE, J. GOMES, M.
WINTERHALTER, T. RUYSSCHAERT, D. FOURNIER.
28/08 – 01/09/2005 Washington DC, USA
230th ACS National Meeting,Functionalization of vesicles, Y. RAMAYE, J.
GOMES, M. WINTERHALTER, T. RUYSSCHAERT, D. FOURNIER.
Languages
Fluent in English and French.
Basic levels in Spanish
2 – 03/06/2005 Stuttgart, Germany
2nd International Symposium on Complex Materials,
“Complex Materials: Cooperative Projects of the Natural, Engineering and
Biosciences”, Multifunctional Liposomes: Controlled permeability and
micromanipulation, Y. RAMAYE, J. GOMES, M. WINTERHALTER, T.
RUYSSCHAERT, D. FOURNIER, G. B. SUKHORUKOV.