Heavy-metal resistance in Marinobacter aquaeolei 617 insights into copper resistance

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Biotecnologia

Correction of spatial distortion in magnetic resonance imaging

Dissertation to Obtain the Degree of Master in Biomedical Engineering

The role of halouracils in radiotherapy studied by electron transfer in atom-molecule collisions experiments

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Física

Efficient succinic acid production from glycerol by actinobacillus succinogenes using dimethyl sulfoxid as electron acceptor

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química e Bioquímica

Monte Carlo simulations for dosimetric verification in photon and electron beam radiotherapy

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Biomédica

Decision-making process in radiology: the magnetic resonance example in the TA context

Based on the report for “Project IV” unit of the PhD programme on Technology Assessment (Doctoral Conference) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (December 2011). This thesis research has the supervision of António Moniz (FCT-UNL and ITAS-KIT) and Michael Decker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-ITAS). Other members of the thesis committee are Carlos Alberto da Silva (University of Évora), José Maria de Albuquerque (Institute of Welding and Quality), Lotte Steuten (University of Twente), Mário Forjaz Secca (FCT-UNL) and Nelson Chibeles Martins (FCT-UNL).

Technology governance in radiology: the example of magnetic resonance imaging

Based on the report for the unit “Project III” of the PhD programme on Technology Assessment in 2011. The unit was supervised by Prof. António B. Moniz (FCT-UNL).

The electron transfer complex between nitrous oxide reductase and its electron donors

J Biol Inorg Chem (2011) 16:1241–1254 DOI 10.1007/s00775-011-0812-9

New spectroscopic and electrochemical insights on a class I superoxide reductase: evidence for an intramolecular electron-transfer pathway

Biochem. J. (2011) 438,485–494 doi:10.1042/BJ20110836

Analysis of the activation mechanism of Pseudomonas stutzeri cytochrome c peroxidase through an electron transfer chain

J Biol Inorg Chem (2011) 16:881–888 DOI 10.1007/s00775-011-0785-8

Low-Spin Heme b3 in the Catalytic Center of Nitric Oxide Reductase from Pseudomonas nautica

Biochemistry, 2011, 50 (20), pp 4251–4262 DOI: 10.1021/bi101605p

An NMR structural study of nickel-substituted rubredoxin

J Biol Inorg Chem (2010) 15:409–420 DOI 10.1007/s00775-009-0613-6

Kinetic, Structural, and EPR Studies Reveal That Aldehyde Oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas Does Not Need a Sulfido Ligand for Catalysis and Give Evidence for a Direct Mo-C Interaction in a Biological System

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (23), pp 7990–7998 DOI: 10.1021/ja809448r

Mediated catalysis of Paracoccus pantotrophus cytochrome c peroxidase by P. pantotrophus pseudoazurin: kinetics of intermolecular electron transfer

J Biol Inorg Chem (2007) 12:691–698 DOI 10.1007/s00775-007-0219-9

Kinetics studies of the superoxide-mediated electron transfer reactions between rubredoxin-type proteins and superoxide reductases

J Biol Inorg Chem (2006) 11: 433–444 DOI 10.1007/s00775-006-0090-0