Margarida Brito, Researcher at LSRE-LCM, won the 2023 Young Researcher Award in Mixing of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). This award was announced during the Mixing 17 – 17^th European Conference on Mixing, which took place in Porto from the 2^nd to the 5^th of July. The award recognises the quality of her PhD thesis, the impact on the field of Mixing through her publications in international journals, international activities and networks, and the industrial significance of her scientific activity.

Margarida concluded her PhD in 2021 at FEUP with the thesis entitled “Mixing Mechanisms in 2D Reactors”, supervised by Doctor Ricardo Santos, Professor José Carlos Lopes and Professor Cláudio Fonte (University of Manchester). This thesis consolidates the work on mesoreactores developed at LSRE-LCM over the last two decades, contributing to industrial solutions based on fundamental studies in mixing mechanisms.

More details about this award can be consulted at this link.

Organised by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering - Working Party on Mixing jointly with a team of researchers from the LSRE-LCM, FEUP, the 17th European Conference in Mixing, Mixing 17, took place from the 2^nd to 5^th July at Fundação Dr António Cupertino de Miranda.

Mixing 17 gathered more than 120 people with academic and industrial backgrounds who discussed the progress of mixing technology, research, and application in the process industries. The congress had 4 keynotes given by Harry Van den Akker (University of Limerick), Irina Ramos (AstraZeneca), Martina Micheletti (University College of London), and Bento Amaral (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), as well as 45 oral presentations and 40 posters.

Mixing awards were announced during the conference, where Alain Liné (Professor at INSA-Toulouse) was distinguished with the 2023 Alvin and Helen Nienow Lifetime Recognition Award and Margarida Brito (researcher at LSRE-LCM - FEUP) was awarded the 2023 EFCE Young Researcher Award in Mixing. The Young Programme closed Mixing 17. In this event the younger researchers had the opportunity to visit Colab Net4CO2 and the laboratories of LSRE-LCM at FEUP.

Mixing 18 will take place in 2026 at Limerick, Ireland.