مؤلف: Monica Barroso

Mónica Barroso is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Coimbra, in the group of Photochemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy. Her current research activity is focused on nanoscaled devices for the conversion of solar energy into clean energies, particularly photoelectrochemical cells for water splitting, and dye-sensitized solar cells. She was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (Switzerland), in the group of Prof. Michael Grätzel, where she started her studies on solar hydrogen generation with nanocrystalline semiconductor photoelectrodes, using an interdisciplinary approach that covered the areas of material synthesis and characterization, photochemical and electrochemical studies of light driven reactions, as well as device preparation and performance analysis. Previously, her doctoral research had been focused on the Intersecting/Interacting State Model (ISM) and its application to the estimation of absolute rate constants for atom and proton transfer reactions in gas phase, solution and enzymes, and elucidation of the nature of structure-reactivity relationships. Other research interests include the study of photochemical reactions in solution and supercritical ?uids, proton-coupled electron transfer, and organic-based photovoltaics. She has received 3 research grants from the Portuguese Science Foundation and 2 awards (from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the University of Coimbra).