Mónica S. Neves Oliveira (email: monica.oliveira@fe.up.pt) Personal Details Name: Mónica Sofia Neves de Freitas Oliveira Place & Date of Birth: Porto, Portugal, 10/11/1975 Nationality: Portuguese Institutional address Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Química Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 PORTO PORTUGAL Research interests Fluid Dynamics (Newtonian and non-newtonian), Transfer Processes, Rheology and Microfluidics. Education 2003: PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. Title: Characterisation of a Gas-Liquid Oscillatory Baffled Column. Advisor: Prof. Xiong-Wei Ni. 1998: Licenciatura in Chemical Engineering (5 year undergraduate degree), Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Portugal. Optional subjects in the area of Polymer Science. Final-year Research Project at BASF-AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany) on experimental measurement techniques applied to multiphase flows.
Grants and Awards 2007: Postdoctoral Research Grant, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, ref. SFRH/BPD/34141/2006. 2006: Awarded participation in the Chairmen of the European Research Councils Chemistry Committees (CERC3) Young Chemist Workshop on Micro Reactor Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands. Funding grant from FCT. 2004-2007: Postdoctoral Research Grant, FCT, Portugal, ref. SFRH/BPD/15005/2004. 2002: Best Poster Award, Heriot-Watt Seminar day 2002, Edinburgh, UK. 1999-2003: PhD Research Grant, FCT, Portugal, ref. PRAXIS XXI/BD/19560/99. 1998: Placement Grant, Programme Leonardo DaVinci of the European Community. 1998: Research Technician Grant, FEUP, Portugal. Professional Curriculum 2008 - present: Associate Researcher (Investigadora Auxiliar), FEUP, Transport Phenomena Research Center (Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte - CEFT), Department of Chemical Engineering, Porto, Portugal. 2008 - present: Teaching assistant: MF (Mecânica dos Fluidos); PEQIII (Práticas de Engenharia Química III), 2 nd and 3 rd year classes of the Chemical Engineering Degree (after Bologna agreement), Department of Chemical Engineering, FEUP, Porto, Portugal. 2006-2007: Teaching assistant: PEQIII (Práticas de Engenharia Química III), 3 rd year class of the Chemical Engineering Degree (after Bologna agreement), Department of Chemical Engineering, FEUP, Porto, Portugal. 2006: Teaching assistant: LEQII (Laboratórios de Engenharia Química II), 3 rd year class of the Chemical Engineering Degree (prior to Bologna agreement), Department of Chemical Engineering, FEUP, Porto, Portugal. 2005-2007: Postdoctoral Researcher, FEUP, Porto, Portugal. 2004-2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. 1999-2000: Lab. demonstrations and practical tutorials, Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. 1999-2003: PhD research student, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: 2
1998: Industrial Internship R&D, Process Engineering Department ZAT/EA, BASF-AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany. 1998: Research technician in charge of the experimental part of a workshop on Industrial Rheology presented by the University of Porto at CIN, Portugal. Complementary Education 2007: Rheometry and Rheology Seminar, M. T. Brandão & Anton Paar, Porto, Portugal. 2006: CERC3 Young Chemist Workshop on Micro Reactor Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 2004: 19th New England Complex Fluids Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. 2004: First Amherst Rheology Course 2004, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. 2004: TA Instruments Training Seminars 2004 Thermal analysis and rheology, MIT, Cambridge, USA 1998: Workshop in International Management, Contacto@ICEP, Lisbon, Portugal. 1998: Workshop in Industrial Rheology at CIN/FEUP, Maia, Portugal. 1997-1998: Course in Innovation and Internationalisation, SPI (Portuguese Society for Innovation), Universidade do Minho (UM), Guimarães, Portugal. Academic and Professional Membership 2007 - present: Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2005 present: Member of The Society of Rheology of the American Institute of Physics. 2005 - present: Research member of the Unidade de Financiamento Plurianual CEFT (Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte) of FCT, Portugal. 3
Supervising Experience 2007 - present: Co-supervisor of a PhD student, Patrícia Catarina Saraiva de Sousa (FCT ref. SFRH/BD/28846/2006), supervised by Prof. Manuel Alves. 2007 - present: Co-supervisor of a Post-Doc researcher Adélio Manuel de Sousa Cavadas (funding through project PTDC/EQU-FTT/70727/2006), supervised by Prof. Fernando Pinho. Funded Projects 1. Project PTDC/EME-MFE/099109/2008 ANEURYSM - Hemodynamic Study in Cerebral Aneurysms. Due to start 01/01/2010 (Coordinator). 2. Project PTDC/EQU-EQU/098617/2008 Mini and Micro T-jets reactors with high throughput. From 01/09/2009 (TM: Team member). 3. Project PTDC/EQU-FTT/70727/2006 MICROMIXING- Passive micromixing of viscoelastic fluids. From 15/12/2008 (TM). 4. Project PTDC/EQU-FTT/71800/2006 OPTIMAL- Design of optimized microfluidic devices for viscoelastic fluids. From 01/10/2007 (TM). 5. Project Ciência Viva VI, CV/PVI/1228, Tudo flui ( Everything flows ). From 9/11/2006 to 30/6/2008 (Coordinator). 6. Project POCTI/EME/59338/2004, MICROFLUID- Microscale flows of viscoelastic fluids for integrated fluidic circuitry. From 15/08/2005 (TM). Thesis 1. Oliveira, M. S. N. (2003), Characterisation of a Gas-Liquid Oscillatory Baffled Column, PhD Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees 1. Lima, R., Oliveira, M. S. N., Ishikawa, T., Kaji, H., Tanaka, S., Nishizawa, M., Yamaguchi, T. (2009) 'Axisymmetric polydimethysiloxane microchannels for in vitro hemodynamic studies', Biofabrication, 1, 7. 2. Soulages, J., Oliveira, M. S. N., Sousa, P. C., Alves, M. A, McKinley, G. H. (2009) Investigating the stability of viscoelastic stagnation flows in T-shaped microchannels, Journal of non-newtonian Fluid Mechanics, doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.06.002. 4
3. Sousa, P. C., Coelho, P. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. (2009) Three-dimensional flow of Newtonian and Boger fluids in square-square contractions, Journal of non- Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 160, 122. 4. Oliveira, M. S. N., Pinho, F. T., Poole, R. J., Oliveira, P. J., Alves, M. A. (2009) Purely elastic flow asymmetries in flow-focusing devices, Journal of non-newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 160, 31. 5. Oliveira, M. S. N., Rodd, L.E., McKinley, G. H., Alves, M. A. (2008), Simulations of extensional flow in microrheometric devices, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 5, 809. 6. McKinley G. H., Rodd L. E., Oliveira M. S. N. and Cooper-White J. J. (2007), Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Converging/Diverging Geometries, Journal of Central South University of Technology, 14, 6. 7. Oliveira M. S. N., Oliveira P. J., Pinho F. T. and Alves M. A. (2007), Effect of contraction ratio upon viscoelastic flow in contractions: the axisymmetric case, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 147, 92. 8. Oliveira M. S. N., Alves M. A., Pinho F. T. and McKinley G. H. (2007), Viscous fluid flow through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions, Experiments in Fluids, 43, 437. 9. Oliveira M. S. N., Yeh R. and McKinley G. H. (2006), Iterated Stretching, Extensional Rheology and Formation of Beads-on-a-String Structures in Polymer Solutions, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 137, 137. 10. Oliveira M. S. N. and McKinley G. H. (2005), Iterated Stretching and Multiple Beads-ona-String Phenomena in Dilute Solutions of highly-extensible Flexible Polymers, Physics of Fluids (Letters), 17, 071704. (Paper distinguished with publication on the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 12, 5, 2005) 11. Oliveira M. S. N. and Ni X. (2004), Characterisation of a Gas-Liquid OBC: Bubble Size and Gas Holdup, AIChE Journal, 50, 3019. 12. Oliveira M. S. N. and Ni X. (2004), Effect of Hydrodynamics on Mass Transfer in a Gas Liquid Oscillatory Baffled Column, Chemical Engineering Journal, 99, 59. 13. Oliveira M. S. N., Fitch A. W. and Ni X. (2003), A Study of Bubble Velocity and Bubble Residence Time in a Gassed Oscillatory Baffled Column: Effect of Oscillation frequency, Transactions IChemE, 81, 233. 5
14. Oliveira M. S. N., Fitch A. W. and Ni X. (2003), A Study of Velocity and Residence Time of Single Bubbles in a Gassed Oscillatory Baffled Column: Effect of Oscillation Amplitude, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 78, 220. 15. Oliveira M. S. N. and Ni X. (2001), Gas Hold-up and Bubble Diameters in a Gassed Oscillatory Baffled Column, Chemical Engineering Science, 56, 6143. Papers in conference proceedings 1. Sousa, P. C., Pinho, I. S., Pinho, F. T., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. (2009) Flow of a blood analogue solution through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions in Proceedings of VIPIMAGE II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal. 2. Cerdeira, T., Lima, R., Oliveira, M. S. N., Ishikawa, T., Monteiro, F., Imai, Y., Yamaguchi, Y. (2009) Determination of the cell-free layer in circular PDMS Microchannels in Proceedings of VIPIMAGE II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal. 3. Sousa, P. C., Coelho, P. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. (2008) Viscoelastic fluid flow through 3D square-square expansions in AIP Conference Proceedings 1027, 276. 4. Oliveira, M. S. N., Pinho, F. T., Alves, M. A. (2008) Extensional effects in viscoleastic fluid flow through a micro-scale double cross-slot in AIP Conference Proceedings 1027, 982 5. Sousa P. C., Coelho P. M., Oliveira M. S. N. and Alves M. A. (2007) Viscoelastic Fluid Flow In Three-Dimensional Square-Square Contractions, in Proceedings of 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 6. Sousa, P. C., Coelho, P. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. (2007) Three-Dimensional Laminar Flow in Square/Square Contractions, in Proceedings of Congresso de Métodos Numéricos em Engenharia (CMNE) / XXVIII CILAMCE - Congresso Ibero Latino- Americano sobre Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia, Porto, Portugal. 7. Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A., McKinley, G. H. and Pinho, F. T. (2006) Extensional flow of dilute and semi-dilute solutions of polyethylene oxide through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions in Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisboa, Portugal. 8. Oliveira, M. S. N., McKinley, G. H., Alves, M. A. and Pinho, F. T. (2006) Extensional flow through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions in Proceedings of 1ª Conferência Nacional de Métodos Numéricos em Mecânica dos Fluidos e Termodinâmica, Costa da Caparica, Portugal. 6
9. McKinley, G. H., Rodd, L. E., Oliveira, M. S. N. and Cooper-White, J. J. (2005), Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Converging/Diverging Geometries in Proceedings of 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology, Advances in Rheology and its Applications, 1, 13-16, Y. S. Luo, Q. Rao and Y. Xu (ed.), Science Press USA, Monmouth. Invited Communications 1. Oliveira, M. S. N., Pinho, F. T., Poole, R. J., Oliveira, P. J., Alves, M. A., Purely-elastic flow asymmetries in flow-focusing devices, Complex flows of complex fluids, March 17-19, 2008, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. 2. Oliveira, M. S. N., "Microfluidics and its applications in extensional rheometry", RheoProcessing 2008 Multiscale Rheology and Polymer Processing, June 12-14, 2008, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. 3. Oliveira, M. S. N., Extensional Flow of Low Viscosity Elastic Solutions, Invited talk for Class 10.971, February 2005, MIT, Cambridge, USA. Communications in National and International Conferences 1. Sousa, P. C.*, Pinho, I. S., Pinho, F. T., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. Flow of a blood analogue solution through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions, VIPIMAGE II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, September 14-16, 2009, Porto, Portugal. 2. Cerdeira, T., Lima, R.*, Oliveira, M. S. N.*, Ishikawa, T., Monteiro, F., Imai, Y., Yamaguchi, Y. (2009) Determination of the cell-free layer in circular PDMS Microchannels VIPIMAGE II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, September 14-16, 2009, Porto, Portugal. (poster) 3. Alves, M. A, Sousa, P. C., Soulages, J., McKinley, G. H., Oliveira, M. S. N.* Purely- Elastic Flow Asymmetries in T-Shaped Micro-Channels, Congreso de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería, June 29 July 2, 2009, Barcelona, Spain. 4. Sousa, P. C.*, Coelho, P. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Pinho, F.T., Alves, M. A. Flow of a Newtonian and a Shear-Thinning Viscoelastic Fluid through 3D Contractions: Experiments and Simulations, Congreso de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería, June 29 July 2, 2009, Barcelona, Spain. 5. Sousa, P. C.*, Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. "Microfluidic rectifiers for viscoelastic fluid flow, 5th Annual European Rheology Conference, April 15-17, 2009, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 7
6. Sousa, P. C*, Pinho, I. S., Abreu, A. R., Gomes, L. F., Santos, R. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Pinho, F. T., Alves, M. A. " Flow of a blood analogue solution in a micro-geometry with a constriction, 5th Annual European Rheology Conference, April 15-17, 2009, Cardiff, United Kingdom. (poster) 7. Oliveira, M. S. N.*, Pinho, F. T., Alves, M. A*. Extensional effects in viscoleastic fluid flow through a micro-scale double cross-slot, The XVth International Congress on Rheology, August 3-8, 2008, Monterey, California, USA. 8. Sousa, P. C.*, Coelho, P. M., Oliveira, M. S. N., Alves, M. A. Viscoelastic fluid flow through 3D square-square expansions, The XVth International Congress on Rheology, August 3-8, 2008, Monterey, California, USA. (poster) 9. Sousa P. C.*, Coelho P. M., Oliveira M. S. N. and Alves M. A. Viscoelastic Fluid Flow In Three-Dimensional Square-Square Contractions, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 4-9, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 10. Sousa P. C.*, Coelho P. M., Oliveira M. S. N. and Alves M. A. Three-Dimensional Laminar Flow in Square/Square Contractions, Congresso de Métodos Numéricos em Engenharia (CMNE) / XXVIII CILAMCE - Congresso Ibero Latino-Americano sobre Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia, June 13-15, 2007, Porto, Portugal. 11. McKinley G. H.*, Rodd L. E., Oliveira M. S. N. and Cooper-White J. J. Extensional Rheometry on a Chip: Flows of Dilute Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Contractions, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA. 12. Oliveira M. S. N.*, Alves M. A., McKinley G. H. and Pinho F. T. Extensional flow of dilute and semi-dilute solutions of polyethylene oxide through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions, 13th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, June 26-29, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal. 13. Oliveira M. S. N., McKinley G. H., Alves M. A. and Pinho F. T.* Extensional flow through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions, 1ª Conferência Nacional de Métodos Numéricos em Mecânica dos Fluidos e Termodinâmica, June 8-9, 2006, Costa da Caparica, Portugal 14. Oliveira M. S. N.*, Alves M. A., McKinley G. H. and Pinho F. T. Extensional flow through Microfabricated Hyperbolic Contractions, 3rd Annual European Rheology Conference, April 27-29, 2006, Hersonisos, Crete. 15. Oliveira M. S. N.*, Rodd L. E., McKinley G. H. and Alves M. A. Newtonian Flow Through a Microscale Contraction-Expansion, CERC3 Young Chemist Workshop on Micro Reactor Technology, March 16-18, 2006, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 8
16. Oliveira M. S. N* and McKinley G. H. Iterated Stretching and multiple beads-on-a-string phenomena in dilute solutions of highly-extensible flexible macromolecules, 77th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology, October 16-20, 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 17. McKinley G. H.*, Rodd L. E., Oliveira M. S. N. and Cooper-White J. J. Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Converging/Diverging Geometries, 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (PRCR4), August 7-11, 2005, Shanghai, China. 18. Oliveira M. S. N. and McKinley G. H.*, Iterated stretching and multiple beads-on-a-string phenomena in dilute solutions of flexible macromolecules, Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Conference on Extensional Flow, March 21-23, 2005, Mid-Wales, UK. 19. Oliveira M. S. N., Rodd L. E. and McKinley G. H.*, Extensional flow of dilute Polymer Solutions through microfabricated Hyperbolic Contractions, 76th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology, February 13-17, 2005, Lubbock, TX, USA. 20. Oliveira M. S. N.*, Fitch A. W. and Ni X., A Study of Velocity and Residence Time of Single Bubbles in a Gassed Oscillatory Baffled Column: Effect of Oscillation Amplitude, United Engineering Foundation Conference: Process Innovation and Process Intensification (PI2), September 8-13, 2002, Edinburgh, UK. (poster) 21. Oliveira M. S. N.* and Ni X., Gas Hold-up and Bubble Diameters in a Gassed Oscillatory Baffled Column, 5th International Conference on Gas-liquid and Gas-liquid-solid Reactor Engineering as part of 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, September 23-27, 2001, Melbourne, Australia. 22. Oliveira M. S. N.* and Ni X., On the Evaluation of Bubble Size Distribution in an Oscillatory Baffled Column, NASCRE 1 Conference, January 6-9, 2001, Houston, TX, USA. (poster) 23. Oliveira M. S. N.* and Ni X., Characterisation of the Gas Phase in an Oscillatory Baffled Reactor, Oscillatory Flow 2001 Conference, January 4-5, 2001, Cambridge, UK. (* indicates the presenter) Porto, September 2009 9