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Research Group 3 - Nanostructures and Self-Organization

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Margarida Bastos earned her PhD in Thermochemistry from Lund University, Sweden, in 1991 and is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Porto, where she leads the biocalorimetry research group, within the Nanostructures & Self-Organization R&D Group. Calorimetry is her main expertise, but she has also been using other biophysical techniques, such as small angle x-ray diffraction (SAXD), neutron scattering, fluorescence spectroscopy (static and time resolved), Circular Dichroism (CD), microscopy (SEM, TEM, and confocal), having the study of antimicrobial peptide/membrane interactions as main research interest. Besides this, she also applies calorimetry to the thermodynamic characterization of polymer/surfactant interactions, solution behavior of hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds, interactions involving ionic liquids.

She was the co-leader of WG4 (Optimization of data quality) of the COST action MOBIEU (Molecular Biophysics in Europe), an effort that resulted in several methodology papers in a special number of European Biophysics Journal in 2021. She is a member of ARBRE (Association of Resources for Biophysics in Europe). In 2023 she published with other international ITC experts a comprehensive Isothermal Titration Calorimetry paper on Nature Reviews Methods Primers.