LSRE-LCM congratulates Vanessa Filomena Duarte Martins for her PhD thesis defense on October 1^st, 2019 at FEUP.

Vanessa Martins finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Light Olefin/Paraffin Separation By Cyclic Adsorption Processes" supervised by Doctor Alexandre Ferreira, and co-supervised by Professor Ana Mafalda Ribeiro and Emeritus Professor Alírio Rodrigues.

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM congratulate Vanessa Martins for the conclusion of this important academic step and wish success for the new professional stage!

Doctor Raquel Rodrigues, LSRE-LCM alumni, won the Best Portuguese PhD Thesis sponsored by the Portuguese Society of Biomedical Engineering and Fraunhofer AICOS, with the work “Magnetic carbon nanostructures and study of their transport in microfluidic devices for hyperthermia”.

Doctor Raquel Rodrigues developed her PhD work between 2014-2018 at LSRE-LCM (FEUP and Instituto Politécnico de Bragança) under the supervision of Professor Adrián Silva from LSRE-LCM at FEUP and the Coordinator Professor Hélder Gomes from LSRE-LCM at IPB.

The award comprises a monetary prize and a certificate of the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Biomedical Engineering which was attributed during the 15th MEDICON (Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, hosted in Coimbra, Portugal, from 26th to 28th of September).

The work was also published as a book chapter of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) proceedings book series by Springer, Cham.

LSRE-LCM congratulate Doctor Raquel Rodrigues and her supervisors for this recognition!

More information about the Best Portuguese PhD Thesis Competition and the publication on IFMBE proceedings book series at:

https://www.medicon2019.org/best-portuguese-phd-thesis-competition/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_232