NEWS

Scholarships for 9 PhD projects supervised by LSRE-LCM researchers granted by FCT

September 15, 2023

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)

PhD Student Leonardo Delgado wins Best Poster Presentation Award

September 4, 2023

Leonardo Delgado, PhD student at LSRE-LCM under the supervision of Doctor Vítor Vilar and Doctor Francisca Moreira, won the Best Poster Award at the XXV Meeting of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society, held in the University of Coimbra, from 30^th August to 01^st September 2023, with the communication entitled "An innovative electrochemical flow reactor with enhanced mass transfer".

Congratulations Leonardo!

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: 2023/03/01. 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

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

Pedro Henrique Presumido
Membrane Processes for Tertiary Treatment of Urban Wastewaters: Photocatalytic Membrane Reactor and Ozone Membrane Reactor

Filipa Manuela Alves Calvo Casimiro
Lignin from Pulp Mill Sulfite Liquors: Production of Vanillin and Syringaldehyde by an Integrated Process within the Biorefinery Concept

Albertina Gonçalves Rios
Protein Separation and Purification by Cyclic Adsorption Processes