| Hi, I’m Margarida and I come from Portugal. I’ll spend my time during the Functiglass project between Tampere and Nice! |



| To get to know me, here are some pictures about me. I feel very close to my family that always supporting me. I am into hiking, which I love because it allows me to be in contact with nature. I’m fond of music, for example, of this album of a Portuguese band called Xutos e Pontapés. |
| Our aim is to create new porous glasses that glow at a special wavelength for detecting pollutants in water. Here’s how:1️⃣We will make the glasses by a melting process and adjust the ingredients to get the best performance. 2️⃣ We will produce porous materials by crushing the most promising glasses into powders, 3D‑printing them, and then sintering them to create porous structures.3️⃣In the end, we will evaluate how well the best porous materials can sense pollutants in water. |

Margarida Bernardes for Functiglass

