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Ciência com Impacto Podcast: José Luís Figueiredo - Catalysis

September 1, 2021

José Luís Figueiredo, Emeritus Professor of FEUP and member of ALiCE and LSRE-LCM was this week's guest of the "Ciência com Impacto" Project.

Here, he talks about Catalysis and other Chemical Engineering research areas that have been studied in the research group (LCM) that he set up and directed during his highly successful career.

The interview can be found in both Video and Podcast forms.

14 PhD projects supervised by LSRE-LCM researchers have been granted by FCT

September 1, 2021

LSRE-LCM congratulates the 13 researchers that were granted PhD scholarships in the 2021 national FCT call:

Ana Carolina Lima - Supervisors: Filomena Barreiro (CIMO), Arantzazu Santamaria (CIMO), Madalena Dias

Agustina Olivera - Supervisors: Vítor Vilar, Manuel Andrés Rodrigo (UCLM-Spain)

Cristiana Gomes - Supervisors: Alexandre Ferreira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Vítor Vilar

Desiree Silva - Supervisor: Vítor Vilar

Fabiane Lira - Supervisors: Vítor Vilar, Tânia Silva

Giovana Colucci - Supervisors: Filomena Barreiro (CIMO), Alírio Rodrigues

Leonardo Delgado - Supervisosr: Vítor Vilar, Francisca Moreira

Lucas D’Avila - Supervisor: Vítor Vilar, Madalena Alves (UM)

Luís Miguel Oliveira - Supervisors: Idelfonso Nogueira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Alírio Rodrigues

Marisa Gomes - Supervisors: Filipe Mergulhão (LEPABE), Fernando Pereira, Salomé Soares

Mafalda Pina - Supervisors: Salomé Soares, Yury V. Kolen’ko (INL)

Pedro Velho Ferreira - Supervisors: Eugénia Macedo, Elena Costas

Sara Soares - Supervisors: Olga Nunes (LEPABE), Célia Manaia (UCP-ESB), Vítor Vilar

Vinicius Santana - Supervisors: Idelfonso Nogueira, Ana Mafalda Ribeiro, Alírio Rodrigues

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

J.L. Figueiredo. A Relevância da Indústria Química e o seu Contributo para a Sociedade. Princípia Editora, Lda., Cascais, 2022

APPROVED PROJECTS

ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals. Reference: ERC - 101039270. Funded by: European Comission, Horizon Europe | ERC | STARTING GRANTS. Starting Date: 2023/12/31. Duration: 60 months.

F-CAT - A catalytic tool for the defluorination of PFAS in drinking water into degradable organics. Reference: 2022.03874.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.

STAR - STereoselective environmental processes in Antibiotics: role for Resistance. Reference: 2022.02842.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.

DRopH2O - Drinking water quality: early warning and removal of microcontaminants by innovative carbon-based materials. Reference: 2022.08738.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.

SuN2Fuel - Photo-assisted production of green ammonia-based fuels. Reference: 2022.04682.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.

CO2-to-CH4 - Cutting-edge solar-to-heat technology to foster photo-thermocatalytic CO2 methanation towards a climate-neutral economy. Reference: 2022.01176.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.

H2O-3DCapture - Water harvesting – sustainable solution based on a gas-adsorption process using innovative 3D-printed hybrid materials. Reference: 2022.01973.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.

THESIS DEFENSES

Vinicius Viena Santana
Cyber-physical oriented chemical process for green and sustainable production

André Tiago Torres Pinto
Optimised 2D Carbon Materials Activated by Artificial Light and Electrical Current for Catalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment

Larissa Oliveira Paulista
Solar-Driven Thermo-Photocatalytic CO2 Valorisation into Value-Added Fuels

Isabel Sousa Fernandes
Multiphase Flow in NETmix: mixing studies and applications

Rute Agostinha Gomes Seabra
Separation of light hydrocarbons by Simulated Moving Bed

Rafael Gomes Morais
Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion