01/09/2023

Margarida Mateus is the new Executive Director of the c5Lab

Margarida Mateus is the new Executive Director and Technical-Scientific Coordinator of the c5Lab who will ensure the annual plan of strategic projects and the management of the R&D pipeline. With a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa, Margarida Mateus has over 10 years of experience in research and development project management. She held the position of R&D Supervisor at Secil for the last four years.

She develops a high level of collaboration between universities and companies, promoting knowledge transfer that results not only in patent registrations but also in process improvements and new hires.

She was also a teacher at the Instituto Superior Técnico and the Universidade Atlântica, where she supervised 20 master's thesis and one doctoral thesis. She is the author of several publications in high-impact journals.