LSRE-LCM congratulates Batuira Martins da Costa Filho for his PhD thesis defense on September 3^rd, 2019 at FEUP.

Batuira Filho finished his Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Intensification of Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Processes using the NETmix mili-photoreactor for VOCs Oxidation at Gas Phase" supervised by Principal Researcher Vítor Vilar and co-supervised by Associate Professor José Carlos Lopes.

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

The 1^st NanoPurAsp Workshop “Development of Sustainable Nanomaterials for the Purification of Antileukemic Drugs” took place at FEUP on September 2, 2019.

The Workshop coincided with the first annual meeting of the project NanoPurAsp (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031268) leaded by CICECO – University of Aveiro (Doctor Ana Paula Tavares) with partnership from LSRE-LCM/FEUP (Cláudia Gomes Silva and Joaquim Faria) and from the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Brazil (Professor Valéria C.S. Ebinuma).

Due to the broadness of the discussed topics, ranging from nanotechnology, materials science, microbiology and biotechnology, the meeting was open to the public and counted with over 30 participants.