Last week, Prof. Amilton attended the #TMS2025 as part of several technical committees (Recycling and Environmental Technologies, Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy, and Emerging Professionals) and for two oral presentations. It is always great meeting people from the community for fruitful discussions.

In addition, Prof. Amilton had the honor of receiving two awards: the 2025 EPD Young Leaders Professional Development and LMD/EPD Subject Award—Recycling. It is great to receive such recognition from society at this point in PI's career, and thanks to all PI's mentors and the universities where he has worked:

Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa, Jorge Alberto Soares Tenório, David Dreisinger, James Vaughan, William Tarpeh, Yet-Ming Chiang

Universidade de São Paulo, The University of British Columbia, The University of Queensland, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentations:

• Supported Liquid Membranes for Separation of Critical Raw Metals 

• Extraction of Lithium From Brine by Electrodialysis 

Thanks The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society for this moment. 

I'm glad to receive another invitation from AusIMM and Stuart Nicol for a webinar. At this time, titled "Electrochemical-based separation techniques in hydrometallurgical processing," we will delve into the principles and applications of electrochemical techniques, highlighting their advantages over other separation methods in terms of efficiency, selectivity, and environmental sustainability in hydrometallurgical applications (mining and recycling).

The webinar will be on March 04, 2025 at 12.00pm – 1.00pm (UTC+11:00). Everyone is invited. Join us to discover how these cutting-edge techniques can optimize resource recovery and contribute to a more sustainable future.

I'm glad to be elected as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI-Human Affairs) Chair of the Postdoctoral Association at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT Postdoctoral Association (PDA) is a postdoc-led organization to provide support for over 1500 postdoctoral trainees appointed in 50 departments at MIT. The PDA is structured according to the guidelines provided by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) for forming and maintaining a PDA and is supported by the MIT Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR).

Standing Committees are responsible for fulfilling a specific set of responsibilities consistent with the MIT PDA mission. The DEI Committee shall:

• Encourage fair treatment, prevent and eliminate discrimination, and foster mutual understanding and respect among all postdocs;

• Direct postdocs to resources for DE&I at MIT;

• Advocate for changes alongside the Advocacy Committee to promote DE&I for postdocs at MIT;

• Emphasize the role postdocs play in DE&I within academia broadly, and support training and resources that allow postdocs to promote DE&I after their time at MIT;

• Support programs for postdocs and postdoc groups related to the goals and missions of the Human Affairs Committee (health & wellness, diversity & inclusion, etc.).

It is a great honor for the first time being on the list of a percentile rank of 2% or above in my research field (Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Sustainable Mining). This achievement results from a lot of work in different institutions (as Universidade de São Paulo, The University of British Columbia, The University of Queensland, the University of Brescia, Stanford University, and now the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

I completely understand all the pros and cons of this list, and it motivates me to drive better academic studies in partnership with industries and government stakeholders. Beyond that, I'm always looking to improve the quality of my research, aiming for high-impact journals and transforming science into reality (and industrial processes and business). For me, academic work must always look at improvements, and, as engineers and applied science, we should transform molecular reactions into large-scale processes to transform our society into a green future. Link for the list.

I'm glad to announce that I started my new position at Stanford University in the Department of Chemical Engineering. I'm joining the Tarpeh Lab under the supervision of Prof. William Tarpeh to work in membrane separation and electrodialysis to recover critical raw materials from different sources.

This position starts in June/2023 for 1 year.

After defending my thesis and starting a postdoc position, I had the opportunity to teach as a professor in two different graduate courses. Urban and Industrial Solid Waste is offered to graduate students of the University of Sao Paulo, including department as engineering, education, health, and STEM.

In addition, our new discipline proposed Recovery of chemical compounds in aqueous solutions by membranes was approved by the Department of Chemical Engineering and is offered to all graduate students of the University of Sao Paulo focused on engineering students interested in membrane separation.