Mariana Felgueiras and Ana Rita Querido Win Energy & Decarbonization Prize at ALiCE Connect 2026

Mariana Branco Soares Felgueiras, PhD Student at LSRE-LCM/ALiCE, presented the project “From Cement Waste to Fuel: Transforming CO₂ into Methanol and Ethanol”, developed in collaboration with Ana Rita Querido, also a PhD Student at LSRE-LCM/ALiCE, and they were awarded the Elsevier Pitch Presentations – Energy & Decarbonization Prize at the ALiCE Connect 2026 Ideas Competition. This project brought together the main research themes from Mariana and Rita's doctoral theses, culminating in a collaborative effort to explore innovative approaches to carbon use and the production of sustainable fuels.