On February 28, 2023, Natalia Pires Martins successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Use of calcium sulfoaluminate binder chemistry for sustainable cement”. Natalia did her PhD at the Chair of Sustainable Construction of the ETH Zurich and was one of the Early Stage Researchers of the MSCA-ETN SULTAN project. Natalia carried out her PhD in Civil Engineering under the supervision ...

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Between 27 and 30 August Glasgow University held the 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits in Glasgow, which for the first time had a room dedicated to “The changing face of metal extraction – geology, biology and geometallurgy”. The big attendance to this conference room from the geological community was exceptional and it also has ...

MEC has become one of the most highly acclaimed meetings for representatives of both science and industry working in the field of mineral engineering in Europe. The MEC2019 for the third time is consisting of 15th International Conference on Non-Ferrous Ore Processing (ICNOP), 56th Symposium of Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing and 24rd International Conference of Mineral Processing. The Conference ...

Feliciana Ludovici was born in 1992 in a small city in the South of Italy. She studied Industrial Chemistry during both the Bachelor’s (University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum) and the Master’s (Università degli Studi di Milano) degree. Thanks to her high interest for the organic chemistry, during her Bachelor’s degree, she decided to concentrate her thesis project on ...

SULTAN Kick-Off meeting in Leuven, 11-13 February 2019

Francisco Veiga Simão was born in January 1993, in the beautiful and sunny city of Coimbra, Portugal. He is a geologist graduated with an MSc in Geosciences with a specialisation in Geological Resources, and a BSc in Geology from the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). During his academic career, he also ...

Between 6 and 8 November 2018, the second NEMO consortium meeting took place in Sevilla (Spain), 6 months after the NEMO project Kick-off (GD, 29.11.2018)   All NEMO Consortium partners gathered to discuss project progress and status. The main items on the agenda were: Progress and status for each work package (day 1 and day 3) Management Board meeting (day ...

On Monday 12 November 2018, the EU projects NEMO, CROCODILE and ETN DEMETER were presented at the second annual Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) Event. This event offered an opportunity to a variety of stakeholders to get a fresh update about the latest EU activities in the field of Critical Raw Materials. It was co-organised by the European Commission, and the ...

After a 4 months recruitment process, we are happy to announce that the ESRs team for the SULTAN project is now complete. A total number of 240 candidates applied for the 15 ESR positions. Candidates screening, several interviews, a recruiting event in Leuven and careful deliberation were needed to choose the fifteen researchers of the project. Please meet the 15 ...

SULTAN Recruiting Event took place at Novotel, Leuven on October 18, 2018. The preselected candidates were invited to presented themselves, their background and their motivation and to asses their suitability for the ESR position they applied for. All ESR positions are now seized by 15 young researchers from all over the world. The recruiting event has been followed by the pre-kick-off meeting ...

KU Leuven (KUL) boasts a rich tradition of education and research that dates back six centuries. KUL is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure (EUR 455.1 million in 2015), and is a charter member of LERU. KUL conducts fundamental and applied research in all academic disciplines with a clear international orientation. In the ...

Clausthal University of Technology (TUC) is an internationally renowned institution with strong regional ties. Founded in 1775 as mining academy the University has strong traditions of quality education recognised and valued by many national as well as international companies. Research and education at TUC are currently focused on raw materials and energy, materials science and engineering, as well as mechanical ...

UOULU is a multidisciplinary university with 16,000 students and over 3,000 employees located in the north of Finland. The university has ten faculties, which range from humanities and medicine to business, science and technology. UOULU has a proven track record of participating in the EU Framework programmes throughout their evolution. Since FP4 UOULU has been a part of more than 250 ...

FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, is a Non-Profit Private Association, endowed with legal personality. It was created in 2017 as an common initiative of Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) – a Higher Education institution – and 6 private companies, in order to support, potentiate and develop Research and Development (R&D) and innovation ...

ETH Zurich is one of the leading international universities for technology and the natural sciences. ETH Zurich has more than 18,500 students from over 110 countries, including 4,000 doctoral students. ETH Zurich regularly appears at the top of international rankings as one of the best universities in the world. Stefanie Hellweg leads the Chair of Ecological Systems Design at the ...