Mengistie Leweyehu Debasu

	Mengistie Leweyehu Debasu
	Researcher

	extension: 33106
	e-mail: debasu@ua.pt
	department: Chemistry
	office: CICFANO-Researchers Room 32.3.30.1

	group: 1 - inorganic functional nanomaterials and organic-inorganic hybrids
	line: 1 - information and communication technology
	direct url: https://www.ciceco.ua.pt/Debasu

Education and Degrees Awarded

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Aveiro, January 2010 - December 2013.
MSc in Materials Science (under Erasmus Mundus program), University of Aveiro, Aalborg University (Denmark) and Hamburg-Harburg University of Technology (Germany), September 2007 - July 2009.
MSc program in Physics, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), September 2006 - July 2007. Coursework: Mathematical Methods of Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Computational Physics, Quantum Mechanics I and Classical Electrodynamics.

Higher Diploma Licence as a Certified Professional Teacher Educator, Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia), September 2005 - July 2006.
BEd in Physics minor Mathematics, Bahir Dar University, September 2000 - July 2004.

Employment and Teaching

Junior Researcher at CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, January 2019 - Present.
Postdoctoral Researcher at CICECO, February 2014 - December 2018.
Lecturer, Department of Physics, Bahir Dar University, September 2009 - November 2009.
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Physics, Bahir Dar University, July 2006 - June 2007.
Graduate Assistant I and II, Department of Physics, Bahir Dar University, July 2004 - June 2006.

grants/scholarships
- BPD – FCT - (2014-12-01 – 2019-01-10) SFRH/BPD/93884/2013. - BPD – CICECO - (2014-02-20 – 2014-11-30) BPD/UI89/6001/2014 - CICECO (Direção). - BD – FCT- (2010-01-01 – 2013-12-20) SFRH/BD/67108/2009. - MSc – Erasmus Mundus - (2007-09-19 – 2009-07-31).

journal referee

Journal of Luminescence; New Journal of Chemistry; Nanoscale; Materials Horizons; Journal of Materials Chemistry C; Chemical Communications; Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics; Nanotechnology; Dalton Transactions; RSC Advances; Molecular Systems Design & Engineering; Methods and Applications in Fluorescence; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Ceramics International; Journal of Visualized Experiments; Langmuir; Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical; Materials Research Express.

(See: https://publons.com/author/1212185/mengistie-l-debasu#profile)

awards/recognitions

- Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2018: Outstanding Reviewer for Nanotechnology and Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, IOP Publishing.

- Publons Peer Review Awards 2018: named in the top 1% of reviewers in the fields of Physics and Chemistry, on Publons' global reviewer database.

- Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2017: recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for Nanotechnology in 2017, IOP Publishing.

- Outstanding Reviewer Recognitions (2017): awarded certificates of outstanding contribution in reviewing, by Elsevier, e.g., for Journal of Luminescence and Ceramics International.

- Best Poster Award 2016 (1^st Prize): Jornadas CICECO 2016, ENERGY-Trends and Future Challenges, Aveiro, Portugal, June 8 - 9.

- Best Poster Award 2015 (1^st Prize): Jornadas CICECO 2015, NANOTECHNOLOGY ... FROM THE LAB TO THE INDUSTRY, Aveiro, Portugal, April 14 - 15.

Ongoing projects
FCT Ref. PTDC/FIS-OUT/31469/2017 (Principal Investigator). Funding: 221,702.30 €. Period: July 2018 - June 2021. FCT Ref. PTDC/BTM-MAT/31794/2017 (Team Member, 15%). Funding: 235,080.68 €. Period: August 2018 - August 2021. FCT Ref. PTDC/CTM-NAN/4647/2014 (Team Member, 70%). Funding 183,945.00 €. Period: July 2016 - June 2019.