Maria Raposo now works at the Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys-NOVA), Department of Physics, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. She is an associate professor in physics at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and received a degree in physics and material engineering in 1989 at the New University of Lisbon and a Ph.D. in science and material engineering in 1999 from Sao Paulo University, Brazil. Her current research interests include ultra-thin films of polymers and biomolecules, interfaces and nano-technology, colloids, molecular architectures for electronics, photonics and magnetism, biomimetic membranes, and radiation effects on biological systems.