Jorge Carvalho, PhD
Publishing Name: Jorge de-Carvalho
Ciência-ID: 7A10-A355-2334
Nationality: Portuguese
E-mail address: jorge.carvalho@gimm.pt
Research History
Jorge Carvalho has vast, cross-disciplinary experience in the fields of biology, engineering, chemistry, physics and materials science. During 14 years of research, J. Carvalho has participated, from the conception and project planning stage to the final deliverables of national and international projects with a particular focus on the development of unconventional miniaturized and microfluidics technologies with applications in environment, industry and health.
His work has resulted in 14 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 1 review article and 1 book chapter. In the beginning of his research career he worked in biocatalysis, economically optimising the amidation of olein fatty acid using different enzyme reactors. During the PhD, he designed, fabricated and developed different impedance biosensors integrated with milli- and microfluidics for the characterisation of biomolecular interactions kinetics and viscoelasticity. More recently, he implemented a method for the microfluidics manipulation of cellular content for biophysical and mechanobiology studies. Jorge is an expert in surface chemistry for biomolecules immobilization and micropatterning.
J. Carvalho also has a sense of reality perception, an understanding of technology and, entrepreneurship, as well as business acumen and strategic vision. He possesses the analytical capacity to assess upstream costs and the downstream impact of new measures, products or changes. In 2021, he and his co-workers were awarded with the Social Responsibility prize, within the initiative “The Best and the Biggest of the Technological Portugal”, for the development of the Lab in a Suitcase - an innovative, compact and versatile lab for molecular biology research and teaching classes. From 2020 to 2024, Jorge Carvalho was unit head and R&D Bioengineer of the Bioengineering Microfabrication Unit (BEµFAB) at Gulbenkian Science.
Currently, Jorge Carvalho is responsible for the Bioimaging Prototyping service at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM).
