Rita Moreira Carvalho, member of LSRE-LCM/ALiCE and supervised by Professor Helena Passos, was awarded Best Poster Award at the International Symposium on Green Chemistry (ISGC 2025), held in La Rochelle from May 12 to 16, 2025.

Her winning poster, titled “Membrane-Based Approaches for the Efficient Separation of Platinum Group Metals”, highlights innovative research focused on sustainable and efficient methods for metal separation—an area of growing importance in green chemistry and resource recovery. This work is part of the nationally funded project PlatILPlus – Recovery and Separation of Platinum Group Metals and Rare Earth Elements from Spent Automotive Catalytic Converters, carried out by a collaborative team from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro.

The award was sponsored by IFP Energies nouvelles, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of green chemistry.

Congratulations to Rita on this award!

LSRE-LCM congratulates Sandra Miranda for her PhD thesis defense on April 16, 2025. Sandra finished the Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled Intensification of Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Processes using Innovative Photoreactors Towards Air Treatment, supervised by Vítor Vilar and Tânia Silva.

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM wish Sandra success in the new professional stage that will now begin!