Ricardo Adão is a research fellow in the Ultrafast Bio- and Nanophotonics group at INL while pursuing his PhD studies at University of Vigo (UVigo), Spain, under the supervision of Dr Jana B. Nieder at INL and in co-supervision with Prof. Humberto Michinel from UVigo, working theoretically and experimentally on light-matter interactions, involving nanolight sources and 3D optical interconnects.

Ricardo holds a Master degree in Physics Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Previously, he performed an internship at Aarhus University (Denmark), in the AU-UV beam line of the synchrotron storage ring, ASTRID2 (2015), collaborated with LIBPhys-UNL (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) in the enhancement of detection limits of an energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence portable setup for in-situ analysis (2016), took part in the INL Summer Internship Programme in 2D materials for super-resolution Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) (2016) and completed his Master’s thesis in near-field effects for nanoscale-sensitive biosensing (2017).

• I. Ghaeli, R. M.R. Adão, J. B. Nieder
  CLeANFIT – Contact‐Less Axial Nearfield‐Based Fluorescence Imaging Topography: A Method for 3D Micro‐ and Nanotopography Characterization
  Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 2000581

• R. M. R. Adão, R. Campos, E. Figueiras, P. Alpuim, and J. B. Nieder
  Graphene setting the stage: Tracking DNA hybridization with nanoscale resolution
  2D Mater. 6(4), 045056 (2019)

• O. A. Savchuk, O. F. Silvestre, R. M. R. Adão, and J. B. Nieder
  SGFP fluorescence peak fraction analysis based nanothermometer for the assessment of exothermal mitochondria activity in live cells
  Sci. Rep. 9(7535), 1–11 (2019)

• A. R. Faria, O. F. Silvestre, C. Maibohm, R. M. R. Adão, B. F. B. Silva, and J. B. Nieder
  Cubosome nanoparticles for enhanced delivery of mitochondria anticancer drug elesclomol and therapeutic monitoring via sub-cellular NAD(P)H multi-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging
  Nano Res. 12(1), (2018)