Isabel Sofia Barbosa received the Best Poster Award “Transformation of the Chemical Industry” at the 14^th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 7^th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology, which took place on 17th – 21st September 2023, in Berlin, Germany. The European Congress of Chemical Engineering is the major event of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). At ECCE 14 & ECAB 7, scientists from industry, universities, and research institutions from Europe and beyond met to discuss the latest research and industrial applications in all fields of chemistry, process engineering, biotechnology, and related fields.

In this edition, among more than 400 poster presentations, the poster presented by Isabel Barbosa, PhD student at LSRE-LCM, entitled "Photo-assisted production of green ammonia-based fuels", was awarded the prize “Transformation of the Chemical Industry” sponsored by BASF and presented by Dr. Hermann Feise, which is the responsible for Scouting and Academic Networks at BASF and former president of EFCE.

This poster presents the initial results of the SuN2Fuel project, which aims at the photocatalytic production of ammonia as a rising alternative to industrial processes, based on clean technologies and renewable resources, toward a carbon-free economy. The SuN2Fuel project also combines fundamental research on catalysts with the design of suitable reactors and respective techno-economic evaluation of the process to produce ammonia to be used in Fuel Cells. The SuN2Fuel is funded by FCT (2022.04682.PTDC) and is being developed at R&D units LSRE-LCM and CEFT from the Associate Laboratory ALiCE.

LSRE-LCM congratulates the 9 researchers who were granted PhD scholarships in the 2023 National FCT call:

Amala Joy - Supervisors: Cláudia Silva, Joaquim Faria, Maria José Sampaio

Ana Rita Querido - Supervisors: Salomé Soares, Fernando Pereira

Beatriz Cambão da Silva - Supervisors: Alexandre Ferreira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Idelfonso Nogueira (NTNU), Diogo Rodrigues

Carolina Duarte - Supervisors: Ricardo Santos, Vítor Vilar

Elham Delvar - Supervisors: Ricardo Santos, Cláudia Silva

Francisca Cardoso - Supervisors: Filipe Mergulhão (LEPABE), Salomé Soares

João Lopes (IPLeiria) - Co-supervisors: Adrián Silva

José Barbosa - Supervisors: Salomé Soares, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro

Sofia Brandão - Supervisors: Ricardo Santos, Stephane Negny (LGC - INP Toulouse)