André Sequeira

André Sequeira was born in Cascais, Portugal, in 1992. He achieved his Bachelor degree in Biochemistry in 2013 at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) and his Master degree in Bioorganic Chemistry in 2015 at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL) under the supervision of Dr. Rita Ventura, working on carbohydrate synthesis of mannose oligosaccharides.

He worked for two years in a REQUIMTE laboratory in FCT-UNL with a partnership with Hovione Farmacêutica SA in the synthesis, characterization and purity analysis by HPLC of three active pharmaceutical ingredients, where he developed experience in solid-phase synthesis, transesterification/esterification processes, chiral separation of mixtures of diastereoisomers and optimization of salts crystallization processes.

He then started in 2018 his PhD under the supervision of Davide Bonifazi at Cardiff University, and he is currently working on Supramolecular Chemistry in the development of a photoswitchable self-assembly system using Secondary-Bonding interactions.