Morning

09:00 Registration

09:15 Openning session

Helena Passos, Filipe Sosa and Nicolas Schaeffer | CICECO - Aveiro institute of materials

09:30 The role of electrochemistry in critical metal recovery 

Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo  | ICB-CSIC (Spain) 

09:50 Lithium Recovery from End-of-Life Li-ion Batteries by Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization

Sylwin Pawlowski  | Universidade NOVA Lisboa / REQUIMTE

10:10 New Electrochemical Methods for the Recovery of Valuable Metals from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries

Miguel Duarte  | FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

10:30 Coffee-Break

11:00 Beyond the melt: molecular insights into the formation of DES

Monia Martins  |  Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO)

11:20 Small angle X ray and Neutron Scattering for Solvent Extraction

 Sandrine Dourdain  |  Marcoule Institute in Separation Chemistry (ICSM)

11:40 Thermodynamics of solvent extraction

 Inês Vaz  |  CICECO - Aveiro institute of materials

12:00 Unraveling Metal Speciation in Metal-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents: An Integrated Spectroscopic and Computational Approach

Giorgia Mannucci   |  Sapienza University of Rome

12:20 Established and emerging trends in palladium recovery by liquid media

Ana Paula Paiva  |  Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

12:40 Lunch Break

14:00 Groundwork for Sustainability: The Role of Standards in Lithium Extraction at the Upstream Stage

Thomas Gaultier  |  Savannah Resources PLC

14:20 VALORCAR activity as Producer Responsibility Organization in Portugal

José Amaral |  VALORCAR

14:40 Recovering Critical Raw Materials: A Pilot-Scale Perspective

Adriana Moreira | Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (CENTI)

15:00 Leaching as the first step of hydrometallurgy in the recycling of metals from end-of-life products

Carlos Nogueira | Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG)

15:20 Coffee break

15:50 Recovery and separation of platinum group metals and rare earth elements from spent automotive catalytic converters 

Flávia Braga  | Universidade de Aveiro / CICECO

16:10 Closing the loop with algae: critical metal recovery from waste

João Pinto | Universidade de Aveiro / CICECO

16:30 Holystic recycling of metals and other raw materials from secondary sources through circular physic-hydrometallurgy

Helena Soares | FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

16:50 Machine Learning-Driven Framework for Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling

Andre Nogueira | Universidade de Aveiro / CICECO

17:10 Selective Separation and Recovery of Platinum Group Metals by Keratin-Based Adsorbents

Amir Nobahar | Universidade de Aveiro / CICECO

17:30 Closing remarks

Helena Passos, Filipe Sosa and Nicolas Schaeffer