Paulo Rocha – GREEN – Generating Energy from Electroactive Algae https://www.greenproject.pt GREEN - Generating Energy from Electroactive Algae Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:35:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.greenproject.pt/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-min-32x32.png Paulo Rocha – GREEN – Generating Energy from Electroactive Algae https://www.greenproject.pt 32 32 Proof of Concept awarded to VITALBOX, a joint project with Dr. Paulo Rocha and Eng. Luis Lopes https://www.greenproject.pt/proof-of-concept-awarded-to-vitalbox-a-joint-project-with-dr-paulo-rocha-and-eng-luis-lopes/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:33:20 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9863 Our PI and leader Prof. Paulo Rocha along with Eng. Luis Lopes from LIP-Coimbra, have received the Proof of Concept (PoC) award for their joint project, VITALBOX – a groundbreaking new technology for transplant organ transport!

The award was given by #UCBusiness through the PoC Acelera@UC program, who organized and fostered an environment that enabled such valuable recognition.

The creators of the concept will demonstrate its full potential soon, stay tuned!

]]> Dr. Paulo Rocha Highlights GREEN Project in 3rd Episode of “À Procura de Respostas”, an University of Coimbra initiative https://www.greenproject.pt/a-procura-de-respostas/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:14:24 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9838 Our PI, Dr. Paulo Rocha, leads the GREEN project and is the protagonist of the 3rd episode of  “À Procura de Respostas”, a University of Coimbra feature. Check out the video to learn more about the research being conducted at GREEN.”

 

 

]]> GREEN team participated in the Spring Meeting of the MRS at Seattle, USA https://www.greenproject.pt/green-team-participated-in-the-spring-meeting-of-the-mrs-at-seattleusa/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:07:43 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9827 It was amazing to share our work with a scientific community gathering around 6000 scientists from around the globe. The team leader Paulo Rocha organized the symposium on “Bioelectricity and Recapitulation of 3D Environment in Microbial and Tissue Engineering” and we presented a talk and 4 Posters with exciting results.

1. The team in front of the Symposium dashboard;

2. The Symposium organized by our PI Paulo Rocha;

3. Poster session;

4. One of the posters was nominated to Best Poster Award.

]]> Observation of cyanobacteria Oscillatoria sp. filaments https://www.greenproject.pt/observation-of-cyanobacteria-oscillatoria-sp-filaments/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:00:21 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9820 Observation of cyanobacteria Oscillatoria sp. filaments with Axio Zoom V6 (Zeiss).

]]> International women’s day https://www.greenproject.pt/international-womens-day/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:44:41 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9814 We celebrate the international women´s day with our brilliant researcher Dr. Raquel Amaral. She is a specialist in microalgae and bioelectronics and we are grateful for her amazing daily contributions to our multidisciplinary research.

]]> Welcome to the GREEN team André! https://www.greenproject.pt/welcome-to-the-green-team-andre/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:52:20 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9802  

André is a Biotechnologist, he will study electroactivity of higher plant cells in the lab.

]]> GREEN Project highlighted at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra website https://www.greenproject.pt/fctuc-uc/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:34:53 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9791 Click on the link below for more details:

https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/noticias/cientistas-criam-laboratorio-para-estudar-geracao-de-energia-limpa-e-sustentavel-a-partir-da-comunicacao-entre-microalgas/

]]> Welcome to the GREEN team Diogo and David! https://www.greenproject.pt/newmembers/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:56:41 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9768

Welcome!

1. The new members at the lab;

2. Diogo is an excellent electronic engineer who will add expertise in energy harvesting processes;

3. David is a talented Msc. student in the area of microalgae and sensors.

]]> Bioelectronic studies in cyanobacteria https://www.greenproject.pt/bioelectronic-studies-in-cyanobacteria/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:42:43 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9730 We are happy to host our PhD student Damiano Ducci from University of Bath. He will stay for some months to study bioelectronic signals in Oscillatoria sp.

Welcome Damiano!

  1. The Italian researcher
  2. Focused Italian researche

]]> Paulo Rocha awarded young research leaders distinction from World Cultural Council 2022 https://www.greenproject.pt/paulo-rocha-awarded-young-research-leaders-distinction-from-world-cultural-council-2022/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:33:02 +0000 https://www.greenproject.pt/?p=9713 It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that the GREEN PI Prof. Dr. Paulo Rocha is among the 13 researchers which received a distinction from the World Cultural Council (WCC) for his excellent contributions to science.

The recipients are young research leaders or scholars from Portugal who have achieved outstanding performance in science, education and the arts.

The 37th WCC Awards ceremony will be hosted by the University of Coimbra on November 29th and 30th 2022 (MORE INFO).

Congratulations for such an honorable distinction!

 

 

 

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