Rui Ribeiro has received the prize of Best PhD thesis 2018 on environmental applications of AOPs for his PhD thesis entitled Synthesis of Hybrid Magnetic Carbon Nanocomposites for Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation, supervised by Prof. Joaquim Faria and co-supervised by Prof. Helder Gomes and Prof. Adrián Silva. His PhD studies were focused on the development of carbon materials, metal oxides, carbon-based magnetic nanostructured composites and bimetallic materials for heterogeneous environmental catalytic applications for water/wastewater treatment.

This prize was awarded by the International PhD School on Advanced Oxidadtion Processes (IPS-AOP) to the candidate with the higher Impact Factor (IF) calculated as the average value of the 3 publications with the higher IF, where the candidate is first author. The average IF of Dr. Rui Ribeiro was 11.7.

Dr. Rui Ribeiro is currently a Researcher at LSRE-LCM working on the development of smart carbon materials to identify and eliminate water micropollutants.

LSRE-LCM would like to congratulate Rui Ribeiro and his supervisors for this prize!

See the official IPS-AOP Prize divulgation:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/International-PhD-School-on-Advanced-Oxidation-Processes

LSRE-LCM, LEPABE and CEFT researchers accepted IUPAC's invitation to participate in Global Women’s Breakfast: Empowering Women in Chemistry, that happened from 10h00 a.m. on February 12th on FEUP.

This was a IUPAC worldwide event that involved more than 100 institutions from 40 different countries starting in New Zealand and going through Asia, Europe, Africa and finally America.

See this video created by the FEUP event organization as part of the IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast.

This initiative was also part of the celebration of IUPAC's 100th anniversary and the International Year of the Periodic Table that is celebrating 150 years of existence.

Remember last month, at the start of the celebrations of 150 years of the Periodic Table” FEUP, FCUP and ISEP had collaborated to the construction of a Human Periodic Table.

More information about the initiative at: https://iupac.org/100/global-breakfast/ and https://www.iypt2019.pt/GWB_network