Andreia Gerniski Macedo

Dr A. G. Macedo is currently Professor at the Physics Department of UTFPR-Brazil. A. G. Macedo holds a University degree in Physics from the State University of Ponta Grossa (in 2003). In March 2004, after being awarded a scholarship from the Brazilian Foundation Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), she headed to the Federal University of Paraná to study towards her master degree working with porous silicon and applications. In February 2006, she obtained her master degree in Physics. After awarded a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), she headed to the Portugal to study towards her Ph.D. at the University of Aveiro, under the supervision of Professor Luis Dias Carlos (Physics Department) and Professor João Rocha (Chemistry Department). In 2010, she obtained her Doctorate in Physics working on optical properties of nanomaterials based in lanthanides. Andreia returned to Brazil in the first half of 2010 to take the position of Auxiliary Professor (UTP) and Researcher (UFPR) on a group working on organic photovoltaics. During the last four years, she taught basic Physics to engineering courses at the UTFPR, and constitutes a research group working on organic photovoltaics, transistors, optical and electrical sensors. The research interests are currently focused on the sustainable design and development of organic photovoltaics devices assembled from new copolymers and electron donator/acceptor molecules, as well as optical and electrical properties of these materials. She keeps her great interest in lanthanides, the use of atomic force microscopy to probe effects of solvents or thermal annealing in polymeric thin films and new techniques to process polymer thin films in large areas, such as roll-to-roll method. Her current research activities comprise 1 graduate and 3 master students, working with rGO+Perylene composites, hydrothermal synthesis and new electron acceptors and a doctorate student working with processing of polymer by roll-to-roll method to produce flexible optoelectronic devices based on PCDTBT as electron donor and a modified perylene molecule as electron acceptor. Actually, Andreia is the Principal Investigator of two R&D projects funded by Fundação Araucária and CNPq.

graduation at Licenciatura Em Física from Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (2003), master's at Physic from Universidade Federal do Paraná (2006) and doctorate at Física from Universidade de Aveiro (2010). Has experience in Physics, focusing on Physics Of The Condensed State Of Substance, acting on the following subjects: caracterização morfológica, resistividade, fto, supercondutores, monocristais, cério and flutuações térmicas, fenômenos crítcos, rebacuo.