CERNAS

Research Center
for Natural Resources,
Envioronment and Society

Paula Cristina Nunes Ferreira

Paula Cristina Nunes Ferreira
Paula Ferreira has a Biochemistry degree from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Coimbra. In 2001, she obtained her Master’s degree in Animal Experimentation at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, with an experimental project developed at the Laboratory of Polymeric Materials at the University of Gent (Belgium). In 2007 she completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering (Biotechnology specialization) at the University of Coimbra (developed in collaboration and co-supervision at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon).
Her area of research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials, either for biomedical or industrial applications. She has been the PI and co/PI of several research projects supported by National and International funds and is an author/coauthor of over 80 scientific publications.
She is also an entrepreneur, being a co-founder of two startups: TimeUp, Lda (a spin-off of Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra and University of Coimbra) and Ineye Pharma, Lda (a spinoff of University of Coimbra). The projects supporting both companies have been awarded with a variety of National and International Awards, the most recent being the 1st place attributed to TimeUp at the Startup Capital Summit 2024 event (Portugal) and the Insudpower Award (Spain) attributed to Ineye Pharma in 2023.