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Senior Researcher

Ana Charas

Academic position: Researcher
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Roles in IT: Senior Researcher
Thematic Line: Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group: Organic Electronics – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

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Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2002
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico,
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico,
  • Organic electroactive materials
  • Organic photovoltaic cells
  • Organic LEDs
  • Materials for Plastic Optical Fibers
  • Nanotechnology
As Supervisor
  • A. Charas, Plásticos Luminosos e Painéis Solares, Chapter in, Laboratórios Abertos 2017, Dep. Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, IST Press, Lisboa, 2017
  • J. Morgado, A. Charas, L. Alcácer, Síntese e caracterização óptica e electroquímica de polifluorenos, Chapter in, Química de Polímeros, J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo, Maria João Moreno, Hugh D. Burrows, Maria Helena Gil, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, 2004

Currently running projects2

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
BioMaterARISES Biomaterials for the assemblage of regenerative-inspired scaffolds for the electrical stimulation of spinal cord FCT 01-12-2021 31-05-2023
RESORB On-Demand Bioresorbable OptoElectronic System for In-Vivo and In-Situ Monitoring of Chemotherapeutic Drugs (RESORB) EU 01-04-2022 31-03-2025

Closed Projects17

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
ARCOCELL Specially Designed Materials and Architectures for Organic Photovoltaic Cells FCT/PTDC 01-01-2008 01-12-2010
BIOFET Field Effect Transistor Array for Monitoring Electrical Activity From Single Cells in Culture FCT/POCTI 01-01-2001 31-12-2004
ChemMat Programa Doutoral da FCT ChemMat: Materials Chemistry - Chemistry of nanostructured materials with optic, electric and magnetic functionalities FCT 01-01-2015 01-12-2020
Conducting polymers Photovoltaic cells based on conducting polymers and anthocyanins FCT/POCI 01-07-2005 30-06-2008
GreenSOL Materials for green processing and their integration in low cost organic photovoltaic cells 01-04-2016 01-03-2018
LIQ-OPVs Towards very efficient organic photovoltaic cells through utilizing liquid crystal phases as electron-acceptors FCT/PTDC 01-05-2013 01-04-2015
NANOPEPS MICRO- AND NANOPATTERNING OF CROSS-LINKABLE ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS BY SPIN-COATING FCT/PTDC 01-01-2011 01-12-2013
NEURON NEURON-Electrically conductive platforms for neural stem cell culture and differentiation FCT 01-10-2018 30-09-2021
NOVO Non volatile polymer memories for flexible electronics FCT/PTDC 01-01-2012 01-07-2015
PLASTIC Fully Patterned all Plastic Integrated Circuits IT/LA 01-07-2005 01-09-2007
PLEDs Energy transfer from electroluminescent polymers to phosphorescent dopants FCT/POCTI 01-07-2003 30-06-2006
POCAONTAS ITN - Innovative Training Network: Polymer-Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics EC/FP7 01-09-2014 01-12-2016
SATRAP Rational design of Self-Assembling networks for TRansparent electrode APplications FCT/POCI 01-10-2018 31-07-2022
StableNextSol COST - Stable Next-generation Photovoltaics: Unraveling degradation mechanisms of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells by complementary characterization techniques EU/H2020 01-03-2014 01-03-2017
SUPRASOL Supramolecular assemblies for efficient, stable, and sustainable organic solar cells FCT 16-07-2018 30-09-2021
uFlexBat Batteryless energy supply system based on flexible organic photovoltaic cells IT/LA 01-12-2016 30-06-2019
UNIME UNIME-Unimolecular Electronics FCT/PTDC 01-07-2007 01-12-2010
  • J. Farinhas, Q. Ferreira, A. Charas, J. Morgado, Controlling the Morphologies on Solar Cells Based on Cross-linked Semiconducting Polymers at the Nanoscale, Best Poster Award in the 1st Cluster Workshop in Materials and Nanotechnology on December 4 – 6, 2013, 01-12-2013
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Jury, Thesis: "Micropatterning of organic materials for photosensing devices", Sara Sequeira, IST, UL, PhD Thesis Jury, Thesis: "Micropatterning of organic materials for photosensing devices", Sara Sequeira, IST, UL, 01-02-2023
  • A. Charas, Special Issue: Conducting Polymers for Advanced Applications Volume II, Guest Editor, , 01-05-2022
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Juri, PhD Thesis Jury, Thesis: “SYNTHESIS OF DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE IN SINGLET FISSION, SOLAR CELLS APPLICATIONS, AND INDUCTION OF CHIRALITY", Maria João Álvaro Albuquerque Martins, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Espanha, 01-10-2021
  • A. Charas, MsC Thesis Jury, MSc Thesis Jury, Thesis: Flexible Organic Light-emitting Diodes, Thaís Pereira, IST, 01-09-2021
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Jury . Title: "Lanthanide-doped inorganic materials and organicinorganic hybrids for solid-state lighting", Ming Fang, Universidade de Aveiro, PhD Thesis Jury, PhD Thesis Jury (main arguent), 01-02-2021
  • A. Charas, Member of Editorial Board Polymers (MDPI), Member of Editorial Board, , 01-11-2020
  • A. Charas, Impact of novel fullerene acceptors and chemical additives on the morphology and efficiency of organic solar cells, Mestre Hugo Gaspar, Universidade do Minho, PhD Thesis Jury, Impact of novel fullerene acceptors and chemical additives on the morphology and efficiency of organic solar cells, Mestre Hugo Gaspar, Universidade do Minho, 01-07-2020
  • A. Charas, MScThesis Jury, Thesis: Graphene-Based Textile Sensor for Cardiac Monitoring, Daniela Filipa Rodrigues Santos, Universidade de Aveiro, MSc Thesis Jury, Graphene-Based Textile Sensor for Cardiac Monitoring, 01-07-2020
  • A. Charas, MSc Thesis Jury, MSc Thesis Jury, Fabrico de sensores UV em membranas de parileno-C para aplicações de pele eletrónica, Frederico Fonseca, Tese de Mestrado em Engenharia Física, Universidade Nova de Lisboaísica da Universidade, 01-12-2019
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Jury - Advanced dendrimers for capture and storage of sustainable energy, Rita Pires, IST, PhD Thesis Jury, PhD thesis, 01-12-2019 | Link
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Principal Juri, PhD Thesis Jury, Thesis: new Boron-Dypyrromethane (BODIPY) Molecules as Suitable Electron-Donrs for Organic Photovoltaic Cells, António Aguiar, PhD in Chemistry, Universidade de Coimbra, 01-12-2019
  • A. Charas, Special Issue: Conducting Polymers for Advanced Applications, Polymers, MDPI Publisher, Guest Editor, , 01-10-2019 | Link
  • A. Charas, Advanced optical spectroscpy of new materials for luminescent solar concentrators, Msc Thesis, Carlota Pereira de Almeida Carlos, Dep. de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, MSc Thesis Jury, Msc. Thesis Juri, 01-07-2019
  • A. Charas, Application of Oligo(ethylene-oxide)-substituted Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecules in Organic Photovoltaic Cells Processed from Green Solvents, Invited Talks, GEET19 - International Conference on Green Energy and Enviromental Technology, 01-07-2019 | Link
  • A. Charas, Sensor Eléctrico e Térmico baseado em Grafeno, João Luís Dinis Silva, Dep. de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, MSc Thesis Jury, Tese de Mestrado, 01-07-2019
  • A. Charas, Materials for "greener" organic solar cells, Invited Talks, 12Th European School on Molecula Science, Elche, Spain, 19-24 May, 2019, 01-05-2019
  • A. Charas, Strategies and Challenges for Efficient and Truly Sustainable Organic Photovoltaics, Invited Talks, Research Summit, Universidade de Aveiro, 29 November, 2018, 01-11-2018 | Link
  • A. Charas, PhD Thesis Juri - Green Photonics: photonic intergrated circuits for optical communications and sensisng based on organic-inorganic hybrids, PhD Thesis, Ana Rita Bastos, Univ. de Aveiro, PhD Thesis Jury, -, 01-10-2018
  • A. Charas, Msc Juri of Thesis "Eletrónica Têxtil baseada em grafeno" Joan ada Silva Tavares, Universidade de Aveiro, MSc Thesis Jury, , 01-07-2018
  • A. Charas, Msc Thesis Jury of Thesis "Camadas luminescentes poliméricas modificadas por complexos de iões lantanídeos para conversão fotovoltaica" Viatcheslav Molchanov, Universidade de Aveiro, MSc Thesis Jury, , 01-07-2018
  • A. Charas, External evaluator/adviser for The FWO - Research Foundation in Flanders, call Bilateral Scientific Cooperation China, Member of Technical Committee, , 01-06-2018
  • A. Charas, Msc Thesis Juri of Thesis Otimização de Concentradores Solares Luminescentes com recurso ao método de Monte-Carlo, Luís manuel da Gama Minas, MSc Thesis Jury, , 01-06-2018
  • A. Charas, Materials and Strategies for Efficient and Sustainable Photovoltaics, Invited Talks, Wokshop on "Towards Solar Energy Storage", Univ. Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 01-02-2018
  • A. Charas, External Evaluator in Agência Nacional de Inovação, Projectos Mobilizadores, Member of Advisory Committee, , 01-01-2018
  • A. Charas, External Evaluator in Mid-Term-Review Action for Research Executive Agency (REA), Member of Advisory Committee, N.a., 01-09-2017
  • A. Charas, Guest Editor of Special Issue of "Materials": "From Macromolecules to Materials for Optoelectronic Devices", Guest Editor, , 01-09-2017 | Link
  • A. Charas, Member of Board of Directors of Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Member of Steering Committee, NA, 01-09-2017
  • A. Charas, PhD thesis jury of "Perylenediimidas: reactividad y aplicaciones como sensores de explosivos y en dispositivos láser" Nathalie Zink Lorre, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, PhD Thesis Jury, -, 01-06-2017
  • A. Charas, MsC Thesis Juri, MSc Thesis Jury, Thesis - Síntese e caracterização de Novos Compostos Moleculares com Unidades Tiofénicas, IST, mestrado em Eng. Química, 01-12-2016
  • A. Charas, MSc Thesis Jury - Desenvolvimento de heterojunções híbridas nanoestruturadas para aplicação em células solares. FCT, Universiadde Nova de Lisboa, MSc Thesis Jury, , 01-11-2016
  • A. Charas, External evaluator for European Commission Research Executive Agency ((Mar-2015)), Member of Technical Committee, , 01-06-2016
  • A. Charas, Principal Jury in MsC thesis on Bioengineering and Nanosystems Engineering of licenciado Ricardo Jorge Carvalho, MSc Thesis Jury, Title: Photovoltaic Cells based on lead- and tin-perovskites, 01-06-2016
  • A. Charas, J. Farinhas, R. Oliveira, J. Morgado, IMPROVING ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS THROUGH USING TERNARY SYSTEMS, Invited Talks, Conference on New Trends in Solar cells, April 19-22, 2016, Bratislava, Slovakia, 01-04-2016 | Full text (PDF 330 KBs)
  • A. Charas, Independent Expert Evaluator, Member of Technical Committee, European Commission, Research Executive Agency,, 01-09-2015
  • A. Charas, Effect of phenanthroline cathode interlayers on the performance of polymer solar cells, Invited Talks, StableNextSol COST Action no. MP1307, 3rd MC Meeting, 2nd WG Meeting and 2nd Conference: E-MRS symposium E. Lille, france, 01-05-2015
  • A. Charas, External evaluator for European Commission Research Executive Agency, Member of Advisory Committee, 01-03-2015
  • A. Charas, J. Farinhas, J. Morgado, Highly Efficient BHJ Organic Photovoltaic Cells Through Integrating Cathode Interlayers, Invited Talks, EMN- Meeting on Photovoltaics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 01-01-2015
  • A. Charas, External evaluator for European Commission Research Executive Agency, Member of Advisory Committee, 01-06-2014
  • A. Charas, Independent evaluator of ''The Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Award'' projects, Member of Advisory Committee, 01-04-2014
  • A. Charas, Cost Action - Stable Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Unraveling degradation mechanisms of Organic Solar Cells by complementary characterization techniques (StableNextSol), National Delegate, MP1307, 01-01-2014
  • A. Charas, Nanostructured Surfaces of Conducting Polymers and Applications in Organic Photovoltaic Cells, Invited Talks, 5th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces, RICI5, 01-06-2013
  • A. Charas, Organic Photovoltaic cells - Conftele 2013, Invited Talks, 01-05-2013
  • A. Charas, Nanostructuring semiconducting polymers utilizing the spin coating technique; applications in organic photovoltaic cells, Seminars, 01-04-2013
  • A. Charas, Principal Juri in MSc Thesis in ''Mestrado em Bioengenharia e Nanossistemas, IST, do licenciado Stefano Virgilio, MSc Thesis Jury, 01-09-2012
  • A. Charas, External Evaluator in Sistemas de Incentivo à IDT, Projectos de Empresas em Copromoção, QREN, Member of Advisory Committee, 01-12-2011
  • A. Charas, Development of Crosslinkable Polyfluorenes for Organic Electronics, Invited Talks, 8th Conference of Physical-Chemistry of the Portuguese Chemical Society, 01-06-2007
  • A. Charas, Fluorenos como Materiais Electroluminescentes Versáteis: da Síntese ao Dispositivo, Seminars, 04-03-2005
  • A. Charas, Seminars "Organic Electronics" , Máster Interuniversitario en Nanociencia y Nanotecnología Molecular, Spain, Toledo, 09-2022
  • A. Charas, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Seminar within "Métodos Analíticos e Estruturais" course, Portugal, Lisbon, 12-2019
  • A. Charas, Organic Materials for OLEDs and Photovoltaic devices, Portugal, Lisbon, 12-2018
  • A. Charas, Organic Materials for OLEDs and Photovoltaic devices, Portugal, Lisbon, 11-2017
  • A. Charas, Seminário: Plásticos Luminosos e Painéis Solares, Portugal, Lisboa, 02-2017
  • A. Charas, Synthetic Routes for Conjugated Polymers - Autumn School/Pocaontas Project, Portugal, Sintra, 10-2014
  • A. Charas, Organic Photovoltaic Energy: From Materials Design to Device Fabrication, Seminars of Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo I, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal, Lisbon, 07-2014
  • SciKnowledge International Conference on Green Energy and Environmental Technology GEET-22, Conference co-chair, 2022
  • SciKnowledge International Conference on Materials and Nanomaterials MNs-2022, Organizing Committee, 2022
  • Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, 2019
  • Industry Day - Printed Electronics and Solar Cells, Conference Chairman, 2017
  • International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB, Scientific Committee, 2016
  • Editorial Board, Polymers, 13-10-2020 - 31-10-2030
  • RSC Advances
    2021, 1 review(s); 2015, 8 review(s); 2014, 7 review(s); 2013, 2 review(s); 2011, 2 review(s);
  • Polymer Chemistry
    2015, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
    2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 2 review(s); 2016, 3 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2013, 3 review(s);
  • Organic Electronics
    2016, 3 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • Solar Energy
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • Polymers
    2022, 1 review(s); 2021, 1 review(s); 2020, 4 review(s); 2018, 2 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
    2021, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Nanotechnology
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • Nanomaterials
    2023, 1 review(s); 2021, 1 review(s); 2020, 2 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s);
  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
    2018, 2 review(s);
  • Dyes and Pigments
    2022, 1 review(s); 2019, 2 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s);
  • Applied Materials and Interfaces
    2020, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s);
  • Chemical Communications
    2018, 1 review(s); 2014, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
    2021, 1 review(s); 2020, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s);

  • 2019, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s);
  • Pure and Applied Chemistry
    2019, 1 review(s);
  • Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    2019, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Electron Device Letters
    2019, 1 review(s);
  • New Journal of Chemistry
    2019, 2 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • Optical Materials
    2019, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Electronic Materials
    2020, 2 review(s);
  • Scientific Reports
    2020, 1 review(s);
  • Crystals
    2020, 1 review(s);
  • Macromolecules
    2021, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s);
  • Molecules
    2021, 2 review(s);
  • Materials Chemistry Frontiers
    2021, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry B
    2021, 1 review(s);
  • Small
    2023, 2 review(s);
  • Polymer
    2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 2 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 2 review(s); 2008, 2 review(s); 2007, 3 review(s); 2006, 3 review(s);
  • Synthetic Metals
    2010, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry
    2013, 2 review(s); 2012, 8 review(s); 2011, 8 review(s);
  • Journal of Physical Chemistry A
    2011, 2 review(s);
  • Journal of Polymers
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
    2015, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME
    2016, 1 review(s);
  • International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics CIBB
    2016, 2 review(s);
  • International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT
    2006, 1 review(s);