Andreia Fernandes de Sousa

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ANDREIA F SOUSA is a Principal Researcher at CICECO, the University of Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal, since 2024, where she leads a multidisciplinary team on the design of sustainable polymers (renewable, biodegradable, recyclable & recycling), within a circular economy mind-set. Her background is in Polymer Chemistry and sustainable chemistry, having completed a PhD in Chemistry (2011).

Sousa is a distinguished scientist with >60 papers, 2 are actually Highly Cited, 5 are covers and 2 are 2022 HOT Green Chemistry papers, accumulating over 2900 citations. Also based on her scientific contributions, she became Associate Editor for Reactive and Functional Polymers (Elsevier) besides being member of several other editorial boards (such as Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy and, Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment, both from Elsevier). Very recently, Sousa was distinguished, from hundreds of applications, as an Early Career Board member of the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal.

She coordinates/participates in several EU projects focusing different aspects of her research interests, including Hop On ABSolEU HE, CEEC Grant (2020.02322.CEECIND), CICECO award (POWER, 2022) MIT- Portugal project (MIT¬EXPL/ISF/0021/2017). Since 2019, she Chairs the European interdisciplinary network FUR4Sustain (CA18220) with >100 experts, 59 institutions and 30 countries.

Finally, she is the proud mother of 3 young children!

Collaborations

I have the pleasure to collaborate with a wide number of renown Researchers worldwide. A non-exhaustive list includes Prof. Katja Loos (University of Groningen, The Netherland), Prof. Anna Szymczyk and Prof. Magdalena Kwiatkowska (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland), Prof. Nathanael Guigo and Prof. Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli (Université Côte d'Azur), Dr. Shanmugam Thiyagarajan (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherland), Prof. Dr. Michael A. R. Meier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Dr. Tobias Robert (Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Germany), Prof. Tobias Stern (University of Graz, Austria), Prof. Rupert Kargl (Graz University of Technology, Austria), Prof. Abid Majdi (Jouf University, Saudi Arabia), Prof. Prof. Ruoyu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), among many other international collaborations. I also collaborate, for a long time now, at National level, with Prof. Jorge Coelho and Prof. Ana Clotilde Fonseca (University of Coimbra), Prof. Paulo Ribeiro-Claro (CICECO, University of Aveiro) and Dr. Teresa Rocha Santos (CESAM, University of Aveiro).

Selected Publications

We have a large number of publications in each of the outlined R&D focus areas, including numerous highly-cited review articles.

B Agostinho, AJD Silvestre, JAP Coutinho, AF Sousa,* Synthetic (bio)degradable polymers - when does recycling fail?, Green Chem., 2023, 25, 13-31 (DOI: 10.1039/d2gc02726g)

2022 HOT Article for Green Chemistry
 

K Rihab, A Bougarech; S Zaidi, I. O. Althobaiti, M Abid, AJD Silvestre; AF Sousa,* S Abid, ACS Sustain Chem Eng, 2023, 11, 28, 10344–10351 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c01301)

B Agostinho, AJD Silvestre, AF Sousa,* From PEF to rPEF: disclosing the potential of deep eutectic solvents in continuous de-/re-polymerization recycling of biobased polyesters, Green Chem, 2022, 24, 3115-3119 (DOI: 10.1039/d2gc00074a)

2022 HOT Article for Green Chemistry
 

AF Sousa,* R Patrício, Z Terzopoulou, DN Bikiaris, T Stern, J Wenger, K Loos, N Lotti, V Siracusa, A Szymczyk, S Paszkiewicz, KS Triantafyllidis, A Zamboulis, MS Nikolic, P Spasojevic, S Thiyagarajan, DS Van Es, N Guigo, Recommendations for replacing PET on packaging, fiber, and film materials with biobased counterparts, Green Chem, 2021, 23 (22), 8795- 8820, (DOI: 10.1039/d1gc02082j)
 

AF Sousa,* AC Fonseca,* AC Serra, CSR Freire, AJD Silvestre and JFJ Coelho, New unsaturated copolyesters based on 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and their crosslinked derivatives, Polym Chem, 2016, 7, 1049-1058 (DOI: 10.1039/c5py01702e)
 

AF Sousa,* C Vilela, AC Fonseca, M Matos, CSR Freire, G-JM Gruter, JFJ Coelho and AJD Silvestre, Biobased polyesters and other polymers from 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid: a tribute to furan excellency, Polym Chem, 2015, 6, 5961-5983 (DOI:10.1039/C5PY00686D)

Highly cited paper
 

 

Ongoing Supervisions

Beatriz Agostinho

PhD Student

Feriel Abid

PhD Student

Mariana I. S. Aguiar

PhD Student

Paula Sofia Sarrico Lacerda

Researcher

Simão Vidinha Pandeirada

PhD Student

Vinícius de Paula

PhD Student

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Publications

Closing the Loop: Greener and Efficient Hydrolytic Depolymerization for the Recycling of Polyesters Using Biobased Eutectic Solvents

Vinícius de Paula, Simão V. Pandeirada, Paulo J. A. Ribeiro-Claro, Armando J. D. Silvestre, Andreia F. Sousa
2025, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

The key role of pretreatment for the one-step and multi-step conversions of European lignocellulosic materials into furan compounds

Kammoun, M; Margellou, A; Toteva, VB; Aladjadjiyan, A; Sousa, AF; Luis, SV; Garcia-Verdugo, E; Triantafyllidis, KS; Richel, A
2023, RSC ADVANCES, 13, 31, 21395-21420.

Highly Flexible Poly(1,12-dodecylene 5,5' -isopropylidene-bis(ethyl 2-furoate)): A Promising Biobased Polyester Derived from a Renewable Cost-Effective Bisfuranic Precursor and a Long-Chain Aliphatic Spacer

Zaidi, S; Bougarech, A; Abid, M; Abid, S; Silvestre, AJD; Sousa, AF
2023, MOLECULES, 28, 10.

Biobased Semi-Crystalline Polyesteramides from 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid and 5,5′-Isopropylidene Bis(2-furfurylamine): Synthesis toward Crystallinity and Chemical Stability

Rihab, K; Bougarech, A; Zaidi, S; Althobaiti, IO; Abid, M; Silvestre, AJD; Sousa, AF; Abid, S
2023, ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING, 11, 28, 10344-10351.

Synthetic (bio)degradable polymers - when does recycling fail?

Agostinho, B; Silvestre, AJD; Coutinho, JAP; Sousa, AF
2023, GREEN CHEMISTRY, 25, 1, 13-31.

Bisfuranic copolyesters bearing nitrated units: synthesis, thermal properties and degradation essays

Bougarech, A; Zaidi, S; Sousa, AF; Abid, S; Silvestre, AJD; Abid, M
2022, JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH, 29, 5.

Developing future visions for bio-plastics substituting PET - A backcasting approach

Haas, V; Wenger, J; Ranacher, L; Guigo, N; Sousa, AF; Stern, T
2022, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION, 31, 370-383.

Development of Enzymatic Variants for the Synthesis of Bioresorbable Polyesters

Almeida, BC; Figueiredo, PR; Dourado, DFAR; Paul, S; Sousa, AF; Silvestre, AJD; Quinn, DJ; Moody, TS; Carvalho, ATP
2022, ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, 26, 8, 2351-2363.

From PEF to rPEF: disclosing the potential of deep eutectic solvents in continuous de-/re-polymerization recycling of biobased polyesters

Agostinho, B; Silvestre, AJD; Sousa, AF
2022, GREEN CHEMISTRY, 24, 8.

Isosorbide and 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid Based (Co)Polyesters: Synthesis, Characterization, and Environmental Degradation

Bouyahya, C; Patricio, R; Paco, A; Lima, MS; Fonseca, AC; Rocha-Santos, T; Majdoub, M; Silvestre, AJD; Sousa, AF
2022, POLYMERS, 14, 18.

Polyethylene Terephthalate: Copolyesters, Composites, and Renewable Alternatives

In P. M. Visakh Mong Liang (Eds.), Poly(ethylene Terephthalate) Based Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites.
Andreia F. Sousa, Carla Vilela, Marina Matos, Carmen S.R. Freire, Armando J.D. Silvestre, Jorge F.J. Coelho
2015, 111-139, Elsevier Science Ltd.
ISBN: 9780323313063

Polyethylene Terephthalate: Copolyesters, Composites, and Renewable Alternatives

In Visakh P.M., Mong Liang (Eds.), POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BASED BLENDS, COMPOSITES AND NANOCOMPOSITES
Andreia F. Sousa, Carla Vilela, Marina Matos, Carmen S.R. Freire, Armando J.D. Silvestre, Jorge F.J. Coelho
2015, Elsevier Inc..
ISBN: 978-0-323-31306-3

Development of more sustainable polymers and composites materials based on 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid

Marina Matos
2019, supervised by Armando Jorge Domingues Silvestre and Andreia Fernandes de Sousa.

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