Category
Post-doctoral Researcher
Organic Unit
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email
jcm.souza@ua.pt
Ciência ID
011A-62E5-9B4E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7999-4009

Background: Júlio C. M. Souza (Souza, J.C.M) has an interdisciplinary background including a license degree in dentistry (DDS) and a MSc in materials science & engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Then, he accomplished his PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Minho (UMinho, Portugal) in cooperation with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) in 2010. Dr. Souza has focused on the development of enhanced biomedical materials, implants, and prostheses. Furthermore, he pursues the improvement of physicochemical methods to assess the performance of structural materials in contact with microrganisms under simulated body environments. Dr. Souza worked as lecturer and scientific researcher on biomedical dental materials at UFRN and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in cooperation with the UMinho and KU Leuven. He was also a visiting investigator at the College of Medicine at Rockford, University of Illinois (UIC), USA, and at the UIC College of Dentistry at Chicago (2016-2018). Currently, Dr. Souza is a research member integrated to the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Univ. of Aveiro, and a collaborative research member at the Center for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS), UMinho. Publications: Up to date, Dr. Souza has published a total of 172+ articles in ISI journals leading to a current Scopus h-index at 39. Also, he published 3 books by Artes Médicas/GrupoA, Elsevier, and Aeditora publishers. Within the last 5 years, a publication rate of approximately 12 articles/year in international scientific indexed (ISI) journals has been accomplished by Dr. Souza considering the advisement of PhD and MSc students on a dynamic scientific mobility within a multidisciplinary research network. Supervising: Dr. Souza was the main advisor of 40+ MSc theses and 3 PhD theses as well as the co-advisor in 16+ MSc and 4 PhD theses. Currently, he is the supervisor of 2 PhD theses. Projects: Dr. Souza supported the approval of 6 projects by FCT (Portugal), 3 by FEDER (European fund), 5 projects by CAPES (Brazil), 5 by CNPq (Brazil), and 1 by FINEP (Brazil). Currently, he is a principal investigator (PI) in one FCT project, named IMPLBiosense (2024.15650.PEX), and a research member in a FCT-FEDER (ILuminAAT - COMPETE2030-FEDER-00895600) project on technological approaches to avoid biofilm accumulation. He is also a research member in an internationalisation project funded by CNPq (CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT Nº 22/2024), named iTextSurfaces (444785/2024-8), on the development of innovative implants using machine learning (ML) models. Such strong scientific collaboration with joint projects results in a scientific mobility and integration of improved methods developed by scientific research groups working together to improve the long-term performance of materials, engineering systems, implants, and prostheses. Editorial board -Associate editor on the topic collection "Computational Modelling and Performance Optimization in Digital Reconstructive Dentistry" for Frontiers in Dental Medicine (Frontiers publisher): 2026-current;

-Associate editor for J Functional Biomaterials (MDPI publisher): 2024-2026;

-Associate editor for Scientific Letters (CESPU publisher): 2021- current;

-Associate editor for RevSALUS (RACS publisher): 2019-current.

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