Maria Elias Lopes Pereira

Postdoc Researcher

mel.pereira@campus.fct.unl.pt

Short Biography

I obtained my PhD in Nanotechnology and Nanoscience by Nova School of Science and Technology on November, 2024. My research
focus is on memristive devices and thin-film transistors based on oxide semiconductors. My enthusiasm by this topic is further
evidenced by my research output with 16 published articles in international journals, 6 as main author (h-index of 10 as of
November 2024). As an active scientist, I have attended 10 conferences/seminars with 5 oral and 5 poster presentations, and
my work has been distinguished by 5 international/national awards. Moreover, as a member of a research team in academia, I
have monitored over 9 students through their master’s thesis, being supervisor of 2 at the moment. I am strongly involved
in teaching activities in undergraduate courses such as “Electronic Data Collection and Storage” and “Microelectronics I”.
I also have experience in management through my work as clean room lithography lab manager since 2021 and more recently as
Satellite Research Area leader of Micro and Nanopatterning at Cenimat|i3N.

Education

Grau Classificação

2020/09/01 – 2024/11/04 Concluído PhD in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal "Optoelectronic memristive devices based on oxide semiconductors for the next generation of information technology" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)

2013 – 2018 Concluído Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Characterization of direct X-ray detectors based on organic semiconductor thin films" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)

2016/01 – 2016/03 Concluído Predictors of Clinical success in the treatment of Staphylococcus Aureus infections (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal 18

Publications

Carvalho, Guilherme; Pereira, Maria; Kiazadeh, Asal; Tavares, Vítor Grade. "Depletion Based Digital and Analogue Circuits with n-Channel IGZO Thin Film Transistors". 2023. Publicado • 10.1109/iscas46773.2023.10181633

Maria Elias Pereira; Jonas Deuermeier; Tomás Mingates; Patrícia Almeida Carvalho; Tomás Calmeiro; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Ferrão de Paiva Martins; Pedro Barquinha; Asal Kiazadeh. Autor correspondente: Maria Elias Pereira. "Influence of fabrication parameters on the Schottky Barrier Modulation of Mo/MoOx/IGZO/Ti/Mo Memristor". Journal of Physics: Materials (2026): https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae35a7. 10.1088/2515-7639/ae35a7

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae35a7

Maria Elias Pereira; Jonas Deuermeier; Rodrigo Martins; Pedro Barquinha; Asal Kiazadeh. Autor correspondente: Maria Elias Pereira. "Unlocking Neuromorphic Vision: Advancements in IGZO-Based Optoelectronic Memristors with Visible Range Sensitivity". ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2024): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.4c00752. 10.1021/acsaelm.4c00752

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.4c00752

Camilla Bordoni; Andrea Ciavatti; Mariana Cortinhal; Maria Pereira; Tobias Cramer; Pedro Barquinha; Beatrice Fraboni. "Dielectric multilayers impact on radiation-induced charge accumulation in highly sensitive oxide field effect transistors". APL Materials (2024): https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189167. 10.1063/5.0189167

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189167

Maria Elias Pereira; Rodrigo Ferrão de Piva Martins; Elvira Fortunato; Pedro Barquinha; Asal Kiazadeh. Autor correspondente: Maria Elias Pereira. "Recent progress in optoelectronic memristors for neuromorphic and in-memory computation". Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (2023): https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/acd4e2. 10.1088/2634-4386/acd4e2

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/acd4e2

Maria Elias Pereira; Jonas Deuermeier; Cátia Figueiredo; Ângelo Santos; Guilherme Carvalho; Vítor Grade Tavares; Rodrigo Martins; et al. Autor correspondente: Maria Elias Pereira. "Flexible Active Crossbar Arrays Using Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Technology toward Artificial Neural Networks Hardware". Advanced Electronic Materials (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200642. 10.1002/aelm.202200642

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200642

G. Carvalho; M. E. Pereira; C. Silva; J. Deuermeier; A. Kiazadeh; V. Tavares. "Characterization and modeling of resistive switching phenomena in IGZO devices". AIP Advances (2022): https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0098145. 10.1063/5.0098145

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0098145

Maria Elias Pereira; Jonas Deuermeier; Pedro Freitas; Pedro Barquinha; Weidong Zhang; Rodrigo Martins; Elvira Fortunato; Asal Kiazadeh. "Tailoring the synaptic properties of a-IGZO memristors for artificial deep neural networks". APL Materials 10 1 (2022): 011113-011113. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0073056. 10.1063/5.0073056

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0073056

Martins, Raquel Azevedo; Carlos, Emanuel; Deuermeier, Jonas; Pereira, Maria Elias; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira; Kiazadeh, Asal. "Emergent solution based IGZO memristor towards neuromorphic applications". Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10 6 (2022): 1991-1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1tc05465a. 10.1039/d1tc05465a

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1tc05465a

Guilherme Carvalho; Maria Pereira; Asal Kiazadeh; Vítor Grade Tavares. "A Neural Network Approach towards Generalized Resistive Switching Modelling". Micromachines 12 9 (2021): 1132-1132. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12091132. 10.3390/mi12091132

🔗 https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12091132

Carlos Silva; Jorge Martins; Jonas Deuermeier; Maria Elias Pereira; Ana Rovisco; Pedro Barquinha; João Goes; et al. "Towards Sustainable Crossbar Artificial Synapses with Zinc-Tin Oxide". Electronic Materials (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/electronicmat2020009. 10.3390/electronicmat2020009

🔗 https://doi.org/10.3390/electronicmat2020009

Pereira, Maria; Deuermeier, Jonas; Nogueira, Ricardo; Carvalho, Patrícia Almeida; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira; Kiazadeh, Asal. "Noble-Metal-Free Memristive Devices Based on IGZO for Neuromorphic Applications". Advanced Electronic Materials (2020): 2000242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202000242. 10.1002/aelm.202000242

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202000242

Pydi Ganga Bahubalindruni; Pedro Barquinha; Bhawna Tiwari; Maria Pereira; Ana Santa; Jorge Martins; Ana Rovisco; et al. "Rail-to-Rail Timing Signals Generation Using InGaZnO TFTs For Flexible X-Ray Detector". IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society 8 (2020): 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2020.2971277. Publicado • 10.1109/JEDS.2020.2971277

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2020.2971277

Tiwari, Bhawna; Bahubalindruni, Pydi Ganga; Santos, Angelo; Santa, Ana; Figueiredo, Catia; Pereira, Maria; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira; Barquinha, Pedro. "Low-Voltage High-Speed Ring Oscillator With a-InGaZnO TFTs". IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society 8 (2020): 584-588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jeds.2020.2997101. 10.1109/jeds.2020.2997101

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jeds.2020.2997101

Casa Branca, Nuno; Deuermeier, Jonas; Martins, Jorge; Carlos, Emanuel; Pereira, Maria; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira; Kiazadeh, Asal. "2D Resistive Switching Based on Amorphous Zinc–Tin Oxide Schottky Diodes". Advanced Electronic Materials 6 2 (2019): 1900958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201900958. Publicado • 10.1002/aelm.201900958

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201900958

Moreira, Marco; Carlos, Emanuel; Dias, Carlos; Deuermeier, Jonas; Pereira, Maria; Barquinha, Pedro; Branquinho, Rita; Martins, Rodrigo; Fortunato, Elvira. "Tailoring IGZO Composition for Enhanced Fully Solution-Based Thin Film Transistors". Nanomaterials 9 9 (2019): 1273. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9091273. Publicado • 10.3390/nano9091273

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9091273

Pereira, M. E.; Carlos, E.; Fortunato, E.; Martins, R.; Barquinha, P.; Kiazadeh, A.. "Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Memristors: Brain-inspired Computation". In Advanced Memory Technology, 431-457. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023. Publicado • 10.1039/bk9781839169946-00431

Maria Elias Pereira; Martins, Jorge; Ivan M. Santos; Cortinhal, Mariana; Sofia Sebastião; Inês Rodrigues; Barquinha, Pedro. "Direct Laser Writing: A Maskless Route to Next-Gen Devices". Trabalho apresentado em Materials Processing and Nanofabrication Workshop, Aveiro, Portugal, 2025.

Trêpo, Ivânia; Pinto, Joana V.; Santa, Ana; Pereira, Maria E.; Calmeiro, Tomás; Coelho, Beatriz; Henriques, Célia; et al. "Patterned Metal Grids for Flexible and Transparent Neural Microelectrode Arrays". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.08.539822. 10.1101/2023.05.08.539822

🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.08.539822

"OPTOELECTRONIC MEMRISTIVE DEVICES BASED ON OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS FOR THE NEXT GEN-ERATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY". Doutoramento, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2024. https://www.proquest.com/openview/e3ed294f727c1c07b7efdccee53ecea1/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y.

🔗 https://www.proquest.com/openview/e3ed294f727c1c07b7efdccee53ecea1/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y

Pereira, Maria. "Characterization of direct X-ray detectors based on organic semiconductor thin films". Mestrado, Università di Bologna, 2018.

Projects

Designação Financiadores

2025/01/01 – 2025/12/31 Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication 10.54499/UIDP/50025/2020 UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, PortugalInstituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação Pólo Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PortugalUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, PortugalUniversidade de Aveiro, PortugalUniversidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

🔗 10.54499/UIDP/50025/2020

2021/01/01 – 2024/11/04 Optoelectronic memristive devices based on oxide semiconductors for the next generation of information technology 2020.08335.BD 10.54499/2020.08335.BD Bolseiro de Doutoramento Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído

🔗 10.54499/2020.08335.BD

2019 – 2022 Integration of oxide thin film transistors and memristors in neuromorphic networks (NeurOxide) PTDC/NAN-MAT/30812/2017 Bolseiro de Doutoramento Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído

🔗 PTDC/NAN-MAT/30812/2017

Designação Financiadores

2026/01/01 – Atual Laser-induced organic electrochemical transistors for next-generation epidermal sweat biosensing (SENSKIN) 2024.16112.PEX Investigador Em curso

2026/01/01 – Atual Bridging Sustainability and Ubiquity in Next-Gen IoT (GAIA) 101256099 Investigador

2026/01/01 – Atual Green self-powered neuromorphic processing engines withintegrated visual and functional sensing (ELEGANCE) 101161114 Pilot line leader

2024 – Atual TERahertz Reconfigurable METAsurfaces for ultra-high rate wireless communications (TERRAMETA) 101097101 Investigador European Commission Em curso

🔗 101097101

2024 – Atual European Research Infrastructure on Semiconductor Chips (INFRACHIP) 101131822 UNINOVA Project Manager Em curso

🔗 101131822

2018 – Atual Transparent and flexible electronics with embedded energy harvesting based on oxide nanowire devices (TREND) GA 716510 Bolseiro de Investigação European Research Council Em curso

2023/09/01 – 2026/08/31 Plataforma integrada com memsensores de nanofios de óxidos e circuitos de nanotransístores de filme fino de óxidos para monitorização de doenças respiratórias infecciosas e qualidade do ar DRI/India/0430/2020 10.54499/DRI/India/0430/2020 UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, PortugalInstituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação Pólo Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

🔗 10.54499/DRI/India/0430/2020

2023 – 2025 Opto-electronic resistive switching devices for artificial intelligence (OPERA) 2022.08132.PTDC Bolseiro de Doutoramento Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

2018 – 2019 Integrated flexible photonic sensor system (iFlexis) i-FLEXIS, GA 611070 Bolseiro de Investigação European Commission Concluído

🔗 i-FLEXIS, GA 611070