Andreia Fernandes de Sousa

Investigador Principal

short cv

ANDREIA F SOUSA is an Assistant Researcher at CICECO, the University of Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal, since 2020, where she leads a multidisciplinary team on the design of sustainable polymers (renewable, biodegradable, recyclable & recycling), within a circular economy mind-set. She also has an invited appointment as researcher at CEMMPRE from the University of Coimbra. Her background is in Polymer Chemistry and sustainable chemistry, having completed a PhD in Chemistry (2011).

Sousa is a distinguished scientist with >50 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!

Supervisões em Curso

Projectos

Publicações

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.

Plastics from renewable sources as green and sustainable alternatives

Sousa, AF; Silvestre, AJD
2022, CURRENT OPINION IN GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY, 33.

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