LSRE-LCM congratulates Bruna Porto for her PhD thesis defense approved by the jury.

Bruna finished her Doctoral Program in Chemical Engineering, at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brasil, with the PhD thesis entitled Microalgal biomass production and nutrients removal from industrial wastewaters using different culture systems supervised by Professors Selene Ulson de Souza and Antônio Ulson de Souza (UFSC) and Doctor Vitor Vilar. Bruna was a PhD sandwich at LSRE-LCM between October 2018 and October 2019.

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM wish Bruna success for the new professional stage that now begins!

A COST Action WaterTOP Core Group Meeting (www.watertopnet.eu), held on October 25-28, 2021, was hosted by Rita Lado in Porto. The agenda included the following topics:

• Analysis and monitoring of water Taste & Odour, from GC-MS to sensors;
• Water treatment to remove T&O;
• Development of T&O compound databases for labs and water managers;
• Sensory analysis and further development of the “Water Taste & Odor Wheel” as a web-page app.

The opening and welcome session counted with the presence of Prof. Arminda Alves on behalf of ALiCE. A total of 26 participants from Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Romania, Turkey, Norway, and Israel, attended the meeting. Many other colleagues from several countries have also participated in the meeting (virtually) and attended the plenary sessions by Zoom (sessions can be found in the WaterTOP YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJxkuaw8jnsQOPbHhfdUSg)