Lurdes is a research fellow in the Water Quality Group, department of life sciences at INL, developing sensors for harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) monitoring.

She holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal, completed in 2016, specialising in Environmental Protection Technologies. Her master thesis was based on developing a biosensor for rapid diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease at Biomark group.

• Gonçalves, M. de Lurdes; Truta, Liliana A. N.; Sales, M. G. F.; Moreira, Felismina T. C.
  Electrochemical Point-of Care (PoC) Determination of Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Using a Pyrrole (Py) Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) on a Carbon-Screen Printed Electrode (C-SPE)
  Analytical Letters, Volume 54, 2021 – 16