Paula Ferreira is a Coordinator Researcher at the University of Aveiro, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials. She has been Principal and Co- Investigator on more than 16 research project awards and 10 projects with industry. She has a vast experience as a supervisor, with 33 MSc students (currently 3), 16 PhD students (currently 10) and 12 Post-doctoral fellows. Her publishing history counts over 200 scientific papers, with over 3223 citations (h-index 33). She participated in over 110 international conferences delivering more than 60 oral presentations. She is/was involved in 4 FCT-CNRS and 1 Pessoa bilateral cooperation agreements and 10 COST actions (5 as participant of the working groups and 5 as member of the management committee). She has been collaborating with several Portuguese Researchers and foreigner Researchers within Europe. She participated on the organizing committee of 9 International Scientific Meetings on Materials Science topics.

The research interests involve the synthesis, structural and physical characterization, and processing of nanofunctional and nanoporous materials for microelectronics and energy applications by bottom-up approaches. She is also interested in sustainable functional bionanocomposites for flexible devices application.