LSRE-LCM congratulates Diogo Filipe Moreira dos Santos for his PhD thesis defense on May 27^th, 2019 at FEUP.

Diogo Santos finished his Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Development of Structured Catalysts for Pollution Control" supervised by Associate Professor Fernando Pereira and co-supervised by Assistant Professor Adrián Silva and Assistant Researcher Salomé Soares.

The staff and team of LA LSRE-LCM wish Diogo Santos success for the new professional stage!

Raquel Pinto Rocha has been awarded by the selection committee and Carbon’s publisher, Elsevier with a “Second place distinction” in the competition for the 2019 Carbon Journal Prize.

The prize competition was the distinction for “an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon materials science and technology”.

This podium place reflects all the excellence work and effort of Dr. Raquel Rocha during her Ph.D. thesis entitled Carbon Catalysts for Liquid Phase Reactions, supervised by Emeritus Professor José Luís Figueiredo and co-supervised by Associate Professor Fernando Pereira.

In addition this award, all the winners will be part of Carbon’s extended Advisory board for three years.

Prize announcement at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/carbon/news/carbon-journal-prize-2019-winners-announced