Mara Freire

Freire graduated in Chemistry in 2003 and completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2007 by University of Aveiro, Portugal. After several assignments abroad and post-doctoral activities at New University of Lisbon, since 2014 she is a Coordinator Researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro. Freire is the Coordinator of Group 5 of CICECO and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of University of Aveiro. She is member of the Young...See more

Freire graduated in Chemistry in 2003 and completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2007 by University of Aveiro, Portugal. After several assignments abroad and post-doctoral activities at New University of Lisbon, since 2014 she is a Coordinator Researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro. Freire is the Coordinator of Group 5 of CICECO and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of University of Aveiro. She is member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. Freire published +220 scientific manuscripts, 14 book chapters and edited one book, and has +10,000 citations and h-index of 61. Freire coordinated/participated in 22 R&D projects, among which a Starting and a Proof of Concept Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). She has filled 7 national patents, and 3 international patents. She received several scientific awards as well as awards related with technology transfer and business ideas. Her research interests comprise the development of cost-effective separation processes for high-value compounds, most of the times resorting to ionic liquids. See less