Mengistie Leweyehu Debasu

Researcher

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 2007Coursework: 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 2018Outstanding 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 (1st Prize): Jornadas CICECO 2016, ENERGY-Trends and Future Challenges, Aveiro, Portugal, June 8 - 9.

- Best Poster Award 2015 (1st 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.

Publications

Boosting the sensitivity of Nd3+-based luminescent nanothermometers

Balabhadra, S; Debasu, ML; Brites, CDS; Nunes, LAO; Malta, OL; Rocha, J; Bettinelli, M; Carlos, LD
2015, NANOSCALE, 7, 41, 17261-17267.

Photoluminescent Epoxy/Gd2O3:Eu3+ UV-cured Nanocomposites

Roppolo, I; Debasu, ML; Ferreira, RAS; Rocha, J; Carlos, LD; Sangermano, M
2013, MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING, 298, 2, 181-189.

All-In-One Optical Heater-Thermometer Nanoplatform Operative From 300 to 2000 K Based on Er3+ Emission and Blackbody Radiation

Debasu, ML; Ananias, D; Pastoriza-Santos, I; Liz-Marzan, LM; Rocha, J; Carlos, LD
2013, ADVANCED MATERIALS, 25, 35, 4868-4874.

Energy-transfer from Gd(III) to Tb(III) in (Gd,Yb,Tb)PO4 nanocrystals

Debasu, ML; Ananias, D; Rocha, J; Malta, OL; Carlos, LD
2013, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 15, 37, 15565-15571.

Nanothermometry: All-In-One Optical Heater-Thermometer Nanoplatform Operative From 300 to 2000 K Based on Er3+ Emission and Blackbody Radiation (Adv. Mater. 35/2013)

Debasu, ML; Ananias, D; Pastoriza-Santos, I; Liz-Marzan, LM; Rocha, J; Carlos, LD
2013, ADVANCED MATERIALS , 25, 35, 4817-4817.

(Gd,Yb,Tb)PO4 up-conversion nanocrystals for bimodal luminescence-MR imaging

Debasu, ML; Ananias, D; Pinho, SLC; Geraldes, CFGC; Carlos, LD; Rocha, J
2012, NANOSCALE, 4, 16, 5154-5162.

Emission-Decay Curves, Energy-Transfer and Effective-Refractive Index in Gd2O3:Eu3+ Nanorods

Debasu, ML; Ananias, D; Macedo, AG; Rocha, J; Carlos, LD
2011, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 115, 31, 15297-15303.

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