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Maria Helena Braga

Maria Helena Braga is a Solid-State and Materials Science Physicist which has a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. She is an Associate Professor and the head of the Engineering Physics Department at FEUP-UPORTO. From 2008-2011 she has worked in the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, USA, as a Research Scholar and Long Term Visiting Staff Member and from 2016-2019 she worked as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin where she brought lithium and sodium ferroelectric glass-electrolytes and new architecture devices developed in Portugal and collaborated with Prof. John Goodenough in further developing these and other energy harvesting and storage devices.