Jessica Alves began her undergraduate degree at Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC, São Paulo, Brazil) in 2012, where she received a research scholarship funded by the university and by the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP (2012-2015). Later in 2017, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Monash University where she focused on first-principles calculations of topological insulators. Alves completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology in 2021 where she investigated molecular photoswitches for laser lithography. She took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science at UNSW from 2021-2023 in Prof. Timothy Schmidt’s group.
Dr. Alves has a strong background in the photochemistry of organic molecules, mainly focused in photoswitches. Her current interests lie within implementing photon upconversion to increase the efficiency of solar cells.
Alves J; Krappitz T; Feist F; Blinco JP; Barner-Kowollik C, 2020, 'Combining Photodeprotection and Ligation into a Dual-Color Gated Reaction System', Chemistry A European Journal, 26, pp. 16985 - 16989, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003546
Journal articles | 2020
Alves J; Krappitz T; Feist F; Blinco JP; Barner‐Kowollik C, 2020, 'Cover Feature: Combining Photodeprotection and Ligation into a Dual‐Color Gated Reaction System (Chem. Eur. J. 71/2020)', Chemistry – A European Journal, 26, pp. 16949 - 16949, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202004097
Journal articles | 2020
Alves J; Wiedbrauk S; Gräfe D; Walden SL; Blinco JP; Barner-Kowollik C, 2020, 'It's a Trap: Thiol-Michael Chemistry on a DASA Photoswitch', Chemistry A European Journal, 26, pp. 809 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904770
Journal articles | 2016
Orfão RB; Alves J; Bartoloni FH, 2016, 'Spectroscopic Studies on the Interaction of Metallic Ions with an Imidazolyl-Phenolic System', Journal of Fluorescence, 26, pp. 1373 - 1380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10895-016-1828-x
Journal articles | 2015
Alves J; Boaro A; Da Silva JS; Ferreira TL; Keslarek VB; Cabral CA; Orfão RB; Ciscato LFML; Bartoloni FH, 2015, 'Lophine derivatives as activators in peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence', Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14, pp. 320 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4pp00311j