NEWS

"Senior Researcher FISOCAT 2018" Award

June 12, 2018

Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM has the honour and pleasure to announce that Professor Emeritus José Luís Figueiredo was the winner of the "Senior Researcher FISOCAT 2018" Award.

This prize is awarded in recognition for major contributions in the area of catalysis and surface chemistry, that has been validated worldwide.

The award includes an invitation to present a Plenary Lecture on a topic in catalysis at the XXVI Ibero-American Congress of Catalysis (CICat 2018) that will be held in Coimbra on 9th-14th September 2018.

LSRE-LCM team and staff congratulate Professor José Luís Figueiredo for this recognition!

See the official communication by Portuguese Chemical Society: https://www.spq.pt/news/prmio-investigador-snior-fisocat-2018-atribudo-a-jos-lus-figueiredo

Ana Isabel Gomes wins the Best Short Oral Communication Award at SPEA10

June 4-8, 2018

Ana Isabel Gomes has received the award in recognition of her Best Short Oral Communication, attributed by the Scientific Committee of the 10th European meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications (SPEA10), held at Almería - Spain on 4th-8th June 2018. The award comprises a certificate and a monetary prize, kindly sponsored by Catalysts (MDPI).

The communication presented at this conference "Cost-effective solar collector to promote photo-Fenton reactions" is a part of the work that is being developed in her doctoral research, performed at Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, supervised by Doctor Vítor Vilar, co-supervised by Doctor Rui Boaventura and Doctor Tânia Silva.

Ana Gomes is currently a PhD student (Doctoral Programme in Chemical and Biological Engineering), at LSRE-LCM, developing work related to the integration of biological and advanced oxidation process for the treatment of landfill leachates.

LA LSRE-LCM congratulates Ana Gomes for the award received for her PhD research work and oral communication at SPEA10!

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

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