Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM has the honour and pleasure to announce that Professor Emeritus José Luís Figueiredo was the winner of the "Senior Researcher FISOCAT 2018" Award.

This prize is awarded in recognition for major contributions in the area of catalysis and surface chemistry, that has been validated worldwide.

The award includes an invitation to present a Plenary Lecture on a topic in catalysis at the XXVI Ibero-American Congress of Catalysis (CICat 2018) that will be held in Coimbra on 9th-14th September 2018.

LSRE-LCM team and staff congratulate Professor José Luís Figueiredo for this recognition!

See the official communication by Portuguese Chemical Society: https://www.spq.pt/news/prmio-investigador-snior-fisocat-2018-atribudo-a-jos-lus-figueiredo

Ana Isabel Gomes has received the award in recognition of her Best Short Oral Communication, attributed by the Scientific Committee of the 10^th European meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications (SPEA10), held at Almería - Spain on 4th-8th June 2018. The award comprises a certificate and a monetary prize, kindly sponsored by Catalysts (MDPI).

The communication presented at this conference "Cost-effective solar collector to promote photo-Fenton reactions" is a part of the work that is being developed in her doctoral research, performed at Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, supervised by Doctor Vítor Vilar, co-supervised by Doctor Rui Boaventura and Doctor Tânia Silva.

Ana Gomes is currently a PhD student (Doctoral Programme in Chemical and Biological Engineering), at LSRE-LCM, developing work related to the integration of biological and advanced oxidation process for the treatment of landfill leachates.

LA LSRE-LCM congratulates Ana Gomes for the award received for her PhD research work and oral communication at SPEA10!