Prof. José Luís Figueiredo has been invited as keynote plenary speaker at the 19th International Sol-Gel Conference held on September 3-8, 2017 in Liège, Belgium.

Just after the opening ceremony, on the 4th of September, Prof. José Figueiredo presented the lecture “Carbon gels with tuned properties for catalysis and energy applications”.

The Sol-Gel Conference is organized in conjunction with the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS). Over the past 35 years this biennial conference has been gathering the most relevant and innovative advances in the field, from the point of view of scientific research and industrial developments.

The Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM is internationally recognized for its excellent research work over the years!

Information about the oficial event available at:

http://www.solgel2017liege.com/index.html#main-carousel
http://www.solgel2017liege.com/Keynote-speaker.html

LSRE-LCM congratulates Belisa Marinho for her PhD thesis defense approved by the jury.

Today Belisa finished her Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled Advanced Oxidation/Reduction Processes for As(III) and Cr(VI) Oxyanions Removal from Water, supervised by Doctor Vítor Vilar and co-supervised by Prof. José Carlos Lopes and Prof. Rui Boaventura.

LSRE-LCM are extremely proud and will always be open to receive Belisa again! We wish Belisa a successful and bright life ahead!