Publications

These are my published research outputs. I'm happy to discuss these further via email.

Currently I work with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to develop new molecular entities towards process chemistry on my MIT Portugal Project. My upcoming publications will feature Machine Learning models for catalytic epoxidation yield predictions and chemical property calculations.

I am also working on other topics in the History and Philosophy of Science, including the “emergence of Portuguese food safety”, “epistemic modelling to describe science-based regulations” and how “scientists’ behaviour drive public policies”.

Chemistry

♦ Data-driven, explainable machine learning model for predicting volatile organic compounds’ standard vaporization enthalpy (with Filipe Teixeira and M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro) • Chemosphere (2024) Publisher Site PDF

♦ Navigating Epoxidation Complexity: Building a Data Science Toolbox to Design Vanadium Catalysts (with Filipe Teixeira and M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro) • New Journal of Chemistry (2024) Publisher Site PDF

♦ Explainable Supervised Machine Learning Model To Predict Solvation Gibbs Energy (with Filipe Teixeira and M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro) • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2023) Publisher Site PDF

♦ Systematic Development of Vanadium Catalysts for Sustainable Epoxidation of Small Alkenes and Allylic Alcohols (with Filipe Teixeira and M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro) • International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023) Publisher Site PDF

♦ Current Outlooks on Machine Learning Methods for the Development of Industrial Homogeneous Catalytic Systems Current Organocatalysis (2022) Publisher Site PDF

♦ Interaction of Xanthone with Double Stranded DNA — A Contribution for Xanthone Derivative Drugs (with Maria João Sottomayor) • Pharmaceuticals (2016) Publisher Site PDF

History and Philosophy of Science

✣ Modeling Innovations: Levels of Complexity in the Discovery of Novel Scientific Methods Philosophies (2025) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Institutional echoes: the Laboratório Químico Municipal do Porto (1884-1907) as a model for the dynamics of scientific institutionalization Substantia (2024) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Reliable Chemistry - Ferreira da Silva, 100 Years of the Master of the Social Dignity of Chemistry Boletim Química (2024) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Roots of Food Regulation in Portugal: Science-Based Laws and Practices, 1875-1905Ler História (2023) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Artificial Intelligence Explanatory Trade-Off on the Logic of Discovery in ChemistryPhilosophies (2023) Publisher Site PDF

Múltiplas Facetas na História da Ciência Química (book co-edited with Isabel Malaquias and João Oliveira) • Editora da Universidade de Aveiro (2023) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Case of the "Salicylate Adulteration of Port Wines": Echoes of a Social, Economic and Scientific View of Portugal-Brazil Relations (1885-1905)Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (2022) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Legislators' Plague: How History of Science Can Explain the Struggles of Universal Pandemic Responses (with Bruno D. A. Pinheiro) • Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19 (2022) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Modeling the Past: Using History of Science to Predict Alternative Scenarios on Science-based LegislationHypothesis Historia Periodical (2021) Publisher Site PDF

✣ António Ferreira da Silva and the Teaching of Chemistry at the Academia Politécnica do Porto (1877–1910) (with João Paiva and Francisco Romeiras) • História da Ciência e Ensino: Construindo Interfaces (2019) Publisher Site PDF

Science Communication

⭔ Towards Digital Laboratories: Transition Challenges of an Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Curricula • Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises (2021) Publisher Site PDF

⭔ Chemistry Edutainment: a Storytelling Activity for Middle-School Children (with Dora Dias) • Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines (2021) Publisher Site PDF

⭔ Gaming with History: How History of Science can be used as a scientific storytelling tool (with Dora Dias) • Hypothesis Historia Periodical (2021) Publisher Site PDF

⭔ “Ethics against Chemistry”: Solving a Crime Using Chemistry Concepts and Storytelling in a History of Science-Based Interactive Game for Middle School Students (with Dora Dias and João Paiva) • Journal of Chemical Education (2021) Publisher Site PDF

⭔ Is Misinformation a Challenge for Science Students in the Digital Era? • Handbook of Research on Determining the Reliability of Online Assessment and Distance Learning (2021) Publisher Site PDF