10:00 Welcome/registration and Coffee break

Academic Talks 

(11 a.m. until 1 pm)

11:00 Inês Matos (UNova Lisboa)

Title: Porous Carbon a Green Chemistry Approach For the Circular Economy.

CV: Ph.D. in chemical engineering and catalysis from the University of Lisbon. Since 2008, she has been an integrated researcher at the LAQV/REQUIMTE research unit, focusing on environmental catalysis and green chemistry, particularly in the synthesis and characterization of carbon materials and catalysts for water treatment and high-value compound synthesis. Expertise in biomass-derived carbons (biocarbons) contributing to advancements in environmental remediation and catalysis for biomass valorisation.

11:15 Lucília Ribeiro (FEUP)

Title: Catalysing sustainability: Transforming lignocellulosic biomass residues into high-value products and fuels.

CV: Lucília Ribeiro obtained her PhD degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 2017. Her PhD studies focused on the catalytic conversion of biomass by hydrolytic hydrogenation, resulting in two awards for the best doctoral thesis due to its originality and high scientific merit: Best PhD Thesis in Catalysis – Ramôa Ribeiro, and Portuguese Young Chemists Award – PYCA 2018. Then, she started working as a post-doctoral researcher at the same institution (LSRE-LCM), in the area of synthesis of fuels and fine chemical products with high-value from the catalytic conversion lignocellulosic biomass residues.

11:30 Arlete Apolinário (IFIMUP)

Title: “Advancements in Green Hydrogen Production: Nanoengineered Photoelectrochemical cells for Enhanced Solar Water Splitting”

CV: Arlete Apolinário is a Junior Researcher at IFIMUP who specializes in materials physics (nanomaterials) and engineering mainly focused on advanced energy materials, such as 3rd generation solar cells: nanostructured semiconductors. She graduated in Applied Physics in 2008 from the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University, followed by an MSc in Engineering Physics in 2011. After completing her Ph.D. in Physics in 2015, she was awarded in 2016 with the best Ph.D. thesis of the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University. She proceeded in 2016 with her Postdoc at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, in the scale-up of Photoelectrochemical Cells for Hydrogen Productionl. She is the PI of the recently granted project H2FlexiPEC's funded by FCT. Has received 5 awards and/or honors including being selected as a Committee member in the decoration of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto with the title "Membro Honorário da Ordem da Instrução Pública" by the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. 

11:45 Andreia Peixoto (LAQV-REQUIMTE)

CV: Biomass Waste Valorisation: A biorefinery approach

CV:Andreia Peixoto is Assistant Researcher at LAQV-REQUIMTE and Invited Professor at Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. She is co-author of 66 publications and 6 book chapters. She have been involved in technology transfer projects and won the Acredita Portugal entrepreneurship competition (2015). She was awarded in two calls of BIP Proof (UPorto inovação) for proof of concept projects with the projects Catalvalor (2018) and Vine2Fuel (2023). She is co-founder and co-owner of INNOVCAT company (with spin-off chancel of UP). 

12:00 Cecília Pedrero (IPPortalegre)

Title:Biomass-derived renewable gases as a decarbonization tool: status, challenges, and perspectives in Europe

CV: Cecilia Mateos is an experienced researcher in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and chemical processes where she has more than 40 scientific papers and 1 patent. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University Catholic of Louvain in 2007. She has been intensively involved with the development of renewable gases in Portugal, working as a coordinator of this area at the BIOREF Collaborative Laboratory for the past 4 years. She is currently a senior researcher at the Polytechnic University of Portalegre, where she combines her research activities with teaching in the field of renewable gases and bioenergy.

12:15 Luca Poletto (National Research Council of Italy - institute of photonics and Nanotechnologies, italy)

Title : Laser Spectroscopy 

CV: Since 2019, he is also Visiting Professor at the School of Electronics of Nanjing University (China).

His main scientific interests are the design and realization of spectrometers and monochromators for the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectral regions for laboratory and space applications, the generation and applications of ultrashort femtosecond and attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet, the development of instrumentation for free-electron laser radiation, the industrial applications of techniques related to applied optics, mainly laser spectroscopy for gas detection.

He has been responsible of the optical design and realization of instrumentation for photon handling of ultrafast pulses that are presently in operations using both high-order laser harmonics or free-electron lasers. Presently, he is participating to several projects funded by national and international institutions in the field of ultrafast optics for femtosecond and attosecond pulses in collaboration with Politecnico Milano (Italy), ELI-Attosecond (Hungary), ELETTRA Synchrotron (Italy), DESY Synchrotron (Germany), Chinese Academy of Science (China), Freiburg University (Germany). 

In the field of laser spectroscopy, he has been the coordinator of the European project SAFETYPACK on “Innovative non- intrusive laser gas sensors on food production for real time quality/safety in line control of food packaging and bottling systems”, FP7 framework, 2013-2016. At present, he is coordinating the EU ATTRACT2 PiPe4.0 project for the in-situ monitoring in the distribution gas network.

He is author and co-author of more than 200 papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Among them, papers on Science, Nature Photonics and Nature Physics, having more than 15600 citations and H-index = 54 (Google Scholar, March 2024). He is also author of four patents in the field of laser technology.

12:30 

Q & A 

Round Table

Business Talks 

(2:30 p.m. until 5 pm)

2:30 Sofia Rebola (Celbi)

Títle: Indústria Papeleira e os desafios das energias renováveis e descarbonização

CV: She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Aveiro and a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra. With more than 15 years of experience in Pulp Production, she has had a career in the areas of Quality Control, Process and Product Development, Continuous Improvement, Environment, Safety, Management Systems, and technical support to the Market. She is currently the Production Director at Celbi, being responsible for the pulp production and energy recovery areas.

 2:45 José Marques (INCBIO)

TItle: Incbio on the road to advanced biorefineries and hydrogen production 

Cv: José Marques, founder and CEO of INCBIO (www.incbio.com). Degree in Economics.

3:00 Telmo Machado (LIPOR)

Title:Biomass from biowaste: uncovering its value with innovation

CV:R&D projects manager at LIPOR, with a degree on Microbiology from the School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University. Main activities have been centred on searching and applying biotechnological solutions for waste treatment and valorisation via mycological and bacterial ways.

3:15 Gustavo Sousa  (BGW)

Title: Next Generation Charcoal Production

CV: Chemical Engineer (M.Sc.), with more than de 10 years’ experience in R&D projects management and development, namely in the fields of carbon fiber manufacturing process and innovative technologies development. Lately, beside carbon materials development, work has done in the field of bio refineries and the valorization of pyrolysis liquids sub-streams.

3:30 Joao Magalhaes (InanoEnergy)

TItle: Development of Retrofitted Thermoelectric Devices for Energy Harvesting Applications in Autonomous Platforms for Remote Sensing

CV: João Magalhães received his Master’s Degree in Physics Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal. His academic background includes material science, optoelectronics, analog/digital circuity, and programming. The development and optimization of energy harvesting devices for remote sensing, and their electrical characterization, has been the main focus of his research. In recent years, has been working as an R&D engineer in collaboration with inanoEnergy for the implementation of different categories of energy harvesting devices in real-life applications.

3:45 Coffee break

16:00 Fernando Borges (Industrial Innovation – Processes Lead)

Title: Building a biofuels path at Galp

4:15  Luís Duarte (LNEG)

title: The role of Pretreatment Methods on the Thermochemical Processing of Biomass

CV: Luís C. Duarte is a senior researcher at LNEG’s Bioenergy & Biorefineries Unit. He has been coordinating (12) and participating in many (inter)national research projects (namely Horizon-EIC, MSCA, H2020, ERANET, FP7, and national calls), including direct R&D contracts with industry aiming at the integrated upgrade of waste biomass resources. Two of these projects have been granted the GREEN PROJECTS AWARD for R&D (promoted by the Portuguese Governmental Environmental Agency). His main scientific interests span from the selective fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass using innovative methods to the production of biofuels and high added-value products, as a way to accomplish full environmental and economic sustainability for the biorefinery concept. He has authored 108 peer-reviewed publications (92 in Scopus), 6 granted patents and 10 book chapters in (inter)national books. He is Secretary-general for the Ibero-American Society for the Development of Biorefineries and acts as expert in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance (ESEIA), and the European Commission as project evaluator (H2020 / Horizon Europe).

16:30 

Q & A 

Round Table