Margarida Brito graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto in June 2016. She integrated the LSRE-LCM research team in September 2016, as a project researcher. In February 2017, she started her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering. In the scope of her PhD, she was at the University of Manchester in 2018 for four months studying mixing of high viscous fluids in non-inertial regimes. In 2021, she got her PhD degree with the thesis entitled "Mixing Mechanisms in 2D Reactors”. Her work focused on the fundamental study of the flow and mixing dynamics in laminar chaotic flows using both Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations (CFD) and laser flow characterisation techniques (Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence, PLIF). She pursued her PostDoc studies at LEPABE in the project HyGreen&LowEmissions (NORTE-01-0145- FEDER-000077). From September 2022 to January 2023, Margarida was at Laboratoire Génie Chimique (LGC-INP) in Toulouse, studying experimentally the mechanisms that control the particle suspensions in continuous oscillatory flow reactors. Currently, she is a junior contract researcher of the BioShoes4All project (PRR - 000011) at LSRE-LCM.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chemical Reactors
Mixing Intensification
Opposed Jets Reactors
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Brito M.S.C.A.. Design of Model Fluids for Flow Characterization Experiments Involving Mixing of Dissimilar Fluids—Refractive Index Matching and Physical Properties. Processes, 10, 1260, 2022 Brito M.S.C.A., Fonte C.P., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.. Flow Regimes and Mixing of Dissimilar Fluids in T-Jets Mixers. Chemical Engineering and Technology, 45, 355-364, 2022 Brito M.S.C.A., Matos J., Torres M.V.L., Fonte C.P., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.. Rheokinematics for product development—Formulation screening in rotational rheometers. AIChE Journal, 68, e17597, 2022 Brito M.S.C.A., Barbosa I.S.O., Fonte C.P., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.. Effective mixing of dissimilar fluids in asymmetric Confined Impinging Jets mixers. Chemical Engineering Science, 258, 117756, 2022

SELECTED PROJECTS

BioShoes4All - Innovation and preparation of the footwear sector for the sustainable bioeconomy. Reference: PRR - 000011. Funded by: Secretaria-Geral do Ambiente, PRR - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência - Bioeconomia. Starting Date: 2022/07/01. Duration: 42 months.
Margarida Brito
Investigador Doutorado
mbrito@fe.up.pt