2025-01-17T12:47:29+08:002025-01-17|News|

Guided by UM Vice Rector Prof. Rui Paulo da Silva Martins, two Fellows of European Academy of Sciences, Prof. Rodrigo Martins and Prof. Elvira Fortunato, both from NOVA University Lisbon, visited Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME) on 16 January 2025. Prof. Hui Pan, Associated Director of IAPME, briefed them on the institute’s rapid progress and demonstrated its cutting-edge research and commercial achievements. Both guests were highly impressed by the development of IAPME. They also shared the materials of NOVA University Lisbon and i3N/CENIMAT with Prof. Pan, and conveyed their interests in collaborating with IAPME in the future. Prof. Guichuan Xing, Prof. Songnan Qu, Prof. Bingpu Zhou, Prof. Kar Wei Ng, and Prof. Hongchao Liu participated the visit. A short lab visit was also conducted and a brief sharing was given by Prof. Ng.

Prof. Rodrigo Martins is a Full Professor at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, a Fellow of the Portuguese Engineering Academy since 2009 and a member of the European Academy of science since 2016. He was decorated with the gold medal of merit and distinction by the Almada Municipality for his R&D achievements. Prof. Rodrigo Martins has been involved in the pioneer European research on amorphous silicon semiconductors and pioneer with is group worldwide activity related to passive and active oxides, the so-called transparent electronics and it is one of the inventors of the so-called paper electronics, where paper is exploit not only as a substrate but also as a functional component in active devices.

Prof. Elvira Fortunato is a Portuguese Scientist and Minister of Science and Technology. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science at the NOVA School of Science and Technology and Vice Rector of the NOVA University Lisbon. Prof. Elvira Fortunato pioneered European research on transparent electronics, namely thin-film transistors based on oxide semiconductors, demonstrating that oxide materials may be used as true semiconductors. Her research team is exploring novel active properties in advanced and sustainable multifunctional materials, including oxides as well as novel electronic-active materials including alternative deposition methods, with the main objective of developing eco-friendly technologies and devices to be used and exploited in electronic circuits made of stable amorphous semiconductors able to serve large area smart flexible and conformable surface electronics.