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Maria de Fátima Montemor | |
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Born | Marinhais, Portugal | June 19, 1966
Alma mater | Instituto Superior Técnico Technical University of Lisbon |
Maria de Fátima Montemor (born June 19, 1966) is a Portuguese researcher known for her work in coatings for surface protection and functionality, and materials for electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices. She is married, lives in Quinta Nova, Salvaterra de Magos and her favourite sport is running.
Early life and education
Fátima Montemor was born in the countryside, near Marinhais, a small village in Ribatejo at the centre of Portugal, where she completed her earlier education. She completed her pre-university education at RARET, where young students were challenged to learn about science and engineering.
She applied to Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), integrated into the Technical University of Lisbon,[1] and she was admitted to the Chemical Engineering program in the academic year of 1984/1985. She graduated in the specialization field of Processes and Industry in 1989. She decided to apply for a fellowship position to experience research in early 1990. After a short time, she became a PhD student and completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering, with distinction, in 1995, also from the Technical University of Lisbon. Later, in 2003 she started her research career at the Department of Chemical Engineering (DEQ) as an Assistant researcher.[1] In 2011, Fátima Montemor became an Assistant professor, and soon she reached the position of Associate Professor in 2015. In 2017 she got her "Agregação" title in Chemical Engineering and started her teaching activity as a Full professor in 2018.[1]. She has been teaching several curricular units and has created two courses on Energy Storage and Batteries. In this activity, she has been regularly awarded with the distinction of "Excellent teacher" and received several diplomas of excellency[1]. She coordinates the International program "Energy Storage " funded by EIT Innoenergy since 2019. Her research activities are developed at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), in the Group of Corrosion Science and Surface Engineering (CSSE) at IST, which rendered her international recognition in functional coatings for surface protection and functionalization.
Scientific career and research
Her research objectives are focused on the field of surface functionalization strategies and development of coatings, including smart self-healing coatings for improved performance of metallic parts (steels, Mg, Zn and Al alloys) used in various sectors such as transportation (automotive and aeronautics), construction (building and offshore), biomedical (bioresorbable implants), energy production (oil and gas) and electrochemical energy storage (fuel cells, hydrogen storage, batteries and supercapacitors). This strategy aims at valorising metallic materials in conventional and novel Hi-Tech applications. She is co-author of 18 book chapters, more than 270 scientific papers published in International journals and above 300 works presented in international and national conferences.[2] Her H-index is actually above 60, which merited her recognition as a top scientist in the Materials Science field [3][4]. In addition to that, M.F. Montemor is listed in the world's most cited top scientists in various scientific areas (top 2%), according to the Stanford University annual list.[5]
She serves as an Editor for the Elsevier Journals Applied Surface Science[6] since 2013, Surface and Coatings Technology[7], and Cement and Concrete Composites[8], and at the Springer Emergent Materials [9] since 2019.
Presently she is co-chairwoman of the TGA3, a task that began in 2020, and a member of the formerly TGS5 experts' group since 2004 to 2020; both are committees created by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel-Cordis-European Commission. She has been serving as an expert in the European Commission, as well, since 2005.
From 2015-2016, she took the position of President of the European Federation of Corrosion, and from 2016-2017, the position of President of the Board of Directors of KIC Innoenergy Iberia.[10] She represented IST on the Board of Directors and presently she is a member of the Advisory Board of this entity. She is also a founding member of the company C2C-Newcap, a spin-off company of IST from 2014 that currently produces asymmetric supercapacitors. She has been participating in the scientific Advisory Boards of different institutions, for example, in the Colab VG energy storage,[11] the Hydrogen Colab[12] and the Technology Innovation Institute in AbuDhabi.[13]
Presently she is an active researcher at CQE and coordinates several research projects, many in collaboration with Portuguese and European Industries. She has a internationalized research team that deals with challenging topics around coatings and materials for electrochemical energy storage, mainly for high power rate and high energy density supercapacitors.
Science outreach
Fátima Montemor has communicated science to the general public. She has translated scientific achievements into publicly accessible language. Some examples are: Portugal develops new redox supercapacitors[14], What is corrosion and how to prevent it?[15], Energy, GDP and corrosion[16], among others.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Some of these materials have been gathered in a book to celebrate the 100th anniversary of IST[25]
Management activities at institutional level
Fátima Montemor was Deputy Director for International Affairs of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) from 2009-2016, and she was involved in the preparation of various international agreements, negotiation of large institutional projects, international partnerships and networks. Since 2017 she has been a member of the executive board of IST. She served as Vice President for Academic Affairs for IST from 2017-2019 and, in 2020, she was appointed as Vice President for Research and International Affairs of IST.[1]
Awards and honours
She was awarded with the BES innovation prize in 2013[26], and with the European Corrosion Medal 2019, which was given by the EFC President at the opening session of EUROCORR 2019 in Seville, Spain[27] for her achievements in coatings for corrosion protection and corrosion science. In 2021, she received the degree of Doctor "Honoris Causa" from the University of Mons[28] for the work developed in the domain of coatings for surface protection and functionalization.
References
- ^ a b c d e "CV RESUMIDO – M.F. MONTEMOR" (PDF). 2020.
- ^ "M. F. Montemor ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Research.com <Top Scientists - Materials Science".
- ^ "Scopus Montemor, M. F."
- ^ Elsevier BV (2021-10-19). "August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"".
- ^ "Editorial Board - Applied Surface Science - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Editorial Board - Surface and Coatings Technology - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Editorial Board - Cement and Concrete Composites - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Emergent Materials". Springer. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "EIT InnoEnergy- Accelerating sustainable energy innovations". www.innoenergy.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ "Vasco da Gama Colab".
- ^ "Hylab Colab".
- ^ "Technology Innovation Institute".
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2019-04-02). "Em Portugal desenvolvem-se novos supercondensadores redox". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2019-01-29). "O que é a corrosão e como evitá-la?". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2017-10-10). "Jornal i". A energia, o PIB e a corrosão.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2017-12-12). "Novos rumos no armazenamento de energia". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2017-06-20). "E como armazenar a energia renovável?". jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2018-09-25). "Armazenar energia: onde vão parar as baterias usadas?". Journal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2018-11-20). "Armazenar energia "limpa" em dispositivos "limpos"". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2018-02-13). "Tintas "inteligentes"?". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2018-04-10). "Os materiais e o armazenamento de energia". Jornal i.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2020-06-11). "EP. 874 FÁTIMA MONTEMOR – INVESTIGAÇÃO DESENVOLVE ELÉTRODOS PARA SUPERCONDENSADORES HÍBRIDOS". 90 segundos de ciência.
- ^ Montemor, M. Fátima (2017-08-24). "Editor in a (60-second) spotlight - M. Fatima Montemor". Elsevier.
- ^ Almedina. "Ideias Sobre Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior pela Comunidade do Instituto Superior Técnico - De Maio 2017 a Dezembro 2020".
- ^ "Armazenar Energia mais rapidamente" (PDF). Diário Económico. 2013-12-09.
- ^ "European Federation of Corrosion - European Corrosion Medal". efcweb.org.
- ^ Lisboa, Técnico. "Professora Fátima Montemor recebe título de Doutor "Honoris Causa" pela Universidade de Mons". Técnico Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-07-11.