M Paula Robalo
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
Biography
M. Paula Robalo is currently Coordinator Professor at Chemical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL). She earned her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, in 1993. After, she got a position as Assistant Professor at Chemical Department, University of Évora and coordinated the Organic Chemistry subarea until 2002, where she moved to ISEL. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals. Her research interests include the synthesis of transition metal complexes as NLO materials or anti-cancer agents; the electrochemical studies of antitumor metalo-drugs as well as the synthesis of aromatic cores with biological interest by biocatalysis with laccases.
Abstract
Abstract : Laccases: biocatalysts towards new heterocyclic cores