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Dr Fernanda Zamboni
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Biography
Dr Zamboni is a postdoctoral research fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She is affiliated to the Centre for Biomedical Technologies and the Translational Research Institute (TRI).She graduated in Pharmacy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and then moved to Ireland to pursue a M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Device Materials at the University of Limerick. She was awarded the highly competitive Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship and graduated with a First-Class Honour’s degree.
In August 2021, Dr Zamboni obtained her doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Limerick. During her doctoral studies, Fernanda was awarded the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and the ERASMUS+ Traineeship mobility grant, which allowed her to conducted part of her Ph.D. project in collaboration with the I3B’s Research Group (Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics) at the University of Minho, Portugal.
In October 2021, Dr Zamboni was awarded the prestigious Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for the period of 2 years. During her postdoctoral project, she spent one year abroad, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, working at the Department of Chemical Pathology at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
As a result of Dr Zamboni’s work, she has published 4 book chapters, 19 research articles, and has been cited over 600 times, conferring a H-index of 14. Dr Zamboni has peer-reviewed articles for the Journal of Biological Macromolecules and the journal Current Research in Translational Medicine. She has also participated in several, national and international research events, accounting for 39 conference abstracts, and 2 prizes.
Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (Other)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), since 2022-2024.
- Member of the European Society of Biomaterials (ESB), since 2022-2024.
- Pharmaceutical Scientist Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), since 2022 until 2024.
- Matrix Biology Ireland Member, since 2022 until 2027.
Teaching
Previous Teaching roles at the School of Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland:
- Principal Lecturer: Full Module (Taught Master’s Course)
- Biopolymers Science: Polymer Therapeutics (Spring 2023) with an overall teaching rating of 4.5 (out of 5).
- Laboratory Demonstrator (undergraduate and postgraduate modules):
- Advanced Characterization of Materials II (Autumn 2016).
- Structure of Materials (Spring 2017).
- Advanced Materials Processing (Autumn 2017).
- Materials I (Spring 2018).
- Materials II (Autumn 2017).
- Recurrent guest lectures (undergraduate and postgraduate modules):
- Biocompatibility (Spring 2019 and Spring 2022).
- Cell Culture for Tissue Engineering (Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023).
- Immunomodulation (Spring 2021).
- How to Write a Literature Review (Spring 2019).
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Fernanda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).