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Ricardo Duarte

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  • Education:

    High school: Escola secundaria do Restelo (Portugal)

    Bachelor: Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal)

    Master’s: Denmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)

    PhD: Imperial College London (UK)

  • Work History:

    Hostel receptionist (for 2 years during my Bachelor)
    Teaching assistant (for 1 year during master’s)
    Kitchen assistant (for 1 year during master’s)

  • Current Job:

    Early stage researcher

  • About Me:

    I am from Portugal, I have studied in Denmark and now moved to the UK where I am finishing my doctorate degree. I love to live in different countries because of how much I have learnt from it.

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    I love surfing, skateboarding and rock climbing. My favourite food is soup and I miss having Portuguese ”Pastel de nata” with a coffee after lunch.

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    I spend my days in the laboratory putting wires connected to electricity under water and oxygen bubbles. Very special equipment is needed so don’t do that at home. Contamination is my biggest enemy as they kill my nanoparticles so I have to spend two days cleaning the white cell with corrosive acids. One time I dropped the cell on the floor after spending two days cleaning it so I had to do it again!

  • My Typical Day:

    I wake up, have a nice quick soup for breakfast as I am late for the bus, then get to work and check a few e-mails for about 30 minutes. Then I jump in the lab where everything is ready for some measurements and spend the entire day between reading scientific articles, fixing problems when experiments go wrong and celebrating with a dance when experiments go well.

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    I work in a three year project where the main tasks that are to be done are: laboratory experiments, writing a thesis dissertation, travelling to science conferences and visit other laboratories where collaborators work. I also have to read a lot of scientific articles which help me to frame my work in a larger scientific field and to know which researchers I would like to contact when I travel to conferences.

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Adventurous, curious, thoughtful

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      I knew I wanted to travel and study abroad

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Very often

      What's your favourite food?

      Soup

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      I would like my back to not hurt from sitting, I would like to have a soup fountain at home and I would like to live near the mountains and the ocean

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