Natalia joined INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory – as a Research Engineer in the Nanochemistry Research Group. She is currently working on the synthesis, characterization, and application of sustainable coatings and self-healing solutions.

Being an Aircraft Maintenance Technologist from the Federal Institute of Sao Paulo (IFSP), she has a more technical approach towards research. She holds a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) where she worked with self-healing polymeric coatings projects and developed her master thesis on the synthesis of refractories ceramics materials for thermal insulation.

• Mendonça Spera, N. C., Fernandes, L., Sakihama, J. et al.
  Designing Colloidal Silica-Bonded Porous Structures of In-situ Mullite for Thermal Insulation
  Interceram. – Int. Ceram. Rev. 69, 54–63 (2020)

• Salomão, R., Fernandes, L., de Mendonça Spera, N. C. (in press).
  Combined effects of SiO2 ratio and purity on physical properties and microstructure of in situ alumina‐mullite ceramics
  International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (2021)