November 2025
PhD student Julles Mitoura defended his thesis
October 2025
MSc student Luis Caraballo attended the Biomass and Bioenergy Conference (BBC) 2025 in Sorocaba, SP
October 2025
PhD student Gabriel Bilato visited the experimental hydrogen production plant at the Itaipu Technological Park
October 2025
Adriano Mariano in the kick-off meeting of the Shell-sponsored project Ethanoil+, which aims at the development of renewable diesel
October 2025
Undergrad student Gustavo Santos Calori attended the XXXIII Congresso de Iniciação Científica da UNICAMP in Campinas, SP
September 2025
PhD students Luiz de Martino Costa and Riann de Queiroz Nobrega attended the Brazilian Congress on Chemical Engineering (COBEQ 2025) in Belo Horizonte, MG.
September 2025
PhD student Bruno Xavier Ferreira attended the 15th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE), 8th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology (ECAB) and 3rd Iberoamerican Congress on Chemical Engineering (CIBIQ) in Lisbon, Portugal
July 2025
MSc student Luis Caraballo and PhD student Luiz Costa attended the 10th School of Combustion in Campinas, Brazil
July 2025
Adriano Mariano teaches academic writing and technoeconomic analysis at Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA) in Medelín, Colombia.
July 2025
PhD students Igor and Luiz attended the ESCAPE conference in Belgium
June 2025
Adriano Mariano and other FEQ faculty members attended the ICheap conference in Florence, Italy
June 2025
Adriano Mariano attended the Brafitec Forum (Capes) in Paris, France and visited FEQ students
June 2025
Adriano Mariano lectured on techno-economic analysis at CENCIP (Perú).
Link to video (in Spanish)
May 2025
PhD student Riann Nóbrega and Adriano Mariano visited the Iracemapolis sugarcane mill (São Martinho Group)
April 2025
Adriano Mariano lectured on techno-economic analysis at BetaEQ.
April 2025
Adriano Mariano lectured on scientific writing to graduate students at Universidad ECCI, Bogotá, Colombia (thanks to Prof. John Posada for the invitation!)
January 2025
MSc student Luis Caraballo presented the advances of his work on the gasification of various feedstocks in the context of the SYMBioref project. Participants: Prof. Juan Bayer (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia) and Dr. York Santiago (SENAI CETIQT).
December 2024
Adriano visits Universidad de la República (UDELAR) in Uruguay and gives a course on scientific writing
December 2024
Adriano visits Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Colombia and gives a course on biorefineries
November 2024
Adriano visits ParisTech schools in France
October 2024
Ph.D. students Luiz Costa and Bruno Ferreira attended the BBEST & IEA Bioenergy conference in Sao Paulo.
July 2024
Ph.D. student Igor Dias spends one month at the University of Porto and University of Edinburgh
June 2024
Ph.D. student Igor Dias presents at ESCAPE 34 in Italy
May 2024
UNICAMP and Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) meet to discuss the SYMBioref: Symbiotic Energy-Cane Biorefinery project
December 2023
Adriano is a member of a PhD defense committee at TUDelft in the Netherlands. Congratulations to Dr. Eduardo Almeida Benalcazar!
December 2023
Marina defended her Master´s
September 2023
Lopca-Ferm Ph.D. students get together (from left to right: Bruno, York, Igor, Riann, Luiz)
August 2023
MSc. student Luiz De Martino is approved to join the direct Ph.D. program at FEQ
August 2023
Ph.D. student Igor Dias presenting at the semiannual workshop on the project "Sugarcane-livestock integration: modeling and optimization" led by LNBR
July 2023
Our visiting Ph.D. student, York Castillo, presented at the 20th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM20) in Porto, Portugal
June 2023
Visit of University of Manchester Dr. Jesús Esteban Serrano and University of Cardiff Dr. Wu Gao
February 2023
Ícaro defended his MSc thesis titled "Hybrid Phenomenological and Machine Learning Approach to Model High Uncertainty Catalytic Reaction Systems"
January 2023
Prof. Adriano presenting at II Symposium "Process Intensification Challenges and Opportunities: Towards Sustainable Sustainable Chemical Processes in the XXI Century", University of Guanajuato, Mexico
October 2022
Prof. Adriano presenting at a working meeting of the IEA-IETS Task XI - Subtask: Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Ex-ante Research
October 2022
Prof. Adriano gave a talk to students of Residência Industrial em Biotecnologia (Ceará)
October 2022
Prof. Adriano gave a talk at the 25a Semana Temática da Biologia (IB-USP)
October 2022
Prof. Adriano gave a talk at the 1a Semana de Comunicação e Escrita Científica da Unicamp
July 2022
LOPCA graduate students meeting with collaborators.
July 2022
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) doctoral researcher York Castillo gave a course at FEQ on simulation of gasification processes
June 2022
MSc student Marina Pimenta went to Montréal, Canada for a three-month internship at the École Polytechnique 2022 Summer Research Internship Program under the supervision of Prof. Paul Stuart
May 2022
University of Antioquia Prof. Juan Bayer gave a course at FEQ on biomass gasification
May 2022
University of Cardiff and LOPCAferm collaboration
Dr. Pablo Ortiz, postdoc at LOPCA, visited The University of Cardiff for one month
February 2022
Prof. Adriano visited the University of Antioquia in Colombia
Sponsored by FAPESP, Prof. Adriano spent a month in Medellín visiting Prof. Lucia Atehortúa and Prof. Juan Fernando Pérez and gave a course on Academic Writing.
December 16, 2021
Prof. Adriano and Ícaro Zelioli gave talks at the "Biofuels-Biocompounds Denmark-Brazil synergy " workshop hosted by Prof. Massimiliano Errico (University of Southern Denmark) at Campinas.
June 2020
Thesis defense at TUDelft
Prof. Adriano was an external member in the thesis defense committee of Felipe Ferrari at TUDelft (remote)
June 2020
Capstone Design course of Polytechnique Montreal
Prof. Adriano was assessing capstone design projects presented by undergraduate students from Polytechnique Montreal
May 2021
Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – BBEST 2020
Prof. Adriano gave a talk at the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – BBEST.
May 2017
Ohio State University Prof. Ezeji visits the LOPCA-Ferm lab
May 2017
Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – BBEST 2017
Prof. Adriano gave a talk at the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – BBEST.