The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR) is a non-profit research organisation and a member of the German ”Helmholtz Association”. It is funded by German Federal and Saxonian Authorities. HZDR is dealing with application-oriented basic research, focused on three major research topics: matter, energy, and health. Around 1,100 people are employed at HZDR. HZDR consists of eight institutes, of which the Helmholtz Institute ...

Wienerberger is part of the international (listed) Wienerberger Group, the world’s largest producer of bricks and the number one in Europe what clay roof tiles are concerned. The company was founded in Vienna (Austria) in 1819. Over the past decade the group has developed into an international player in construction materials. Currently, the Wienerberger group counts 203 production sites in ...

VITO is a leading international research and service centre in the areas of cleantech and sustainable development (figures 2016: 784 employees, >400 worldwide patents, 227 SCI publications, >170 M€ turnover, 91 PhD’s and postdocs). VITO’s ART (Waste Recycling Technologies) team, which is the team working in SULTAN, has extensive experience in solution-oriented research related to the re-use and recycling of a wide variety ...

Founded in 1765 the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is the oldest resource university in the world. Mainly focused on the processing, refining and recycling of raw materials, it follows the guiding principle of sustainability, taking into account economic, environmental and social aspects. The TU Bergakademie Freiberg contributes three of its core competences to the SULTAN project. The first competence is deep ...

OUTOTEC develops, designs and delivers leading technology solutions and services for the processing of copper, nickel, zinc, lead, gold, silver and platinum-group metals at all stages in the value chain from ore to metal. OUTOTEC helps its customers create the smartest value from natural resources and works with them to find the most sustainable solutions for water, energy, minerals, and ...

The SAXONIA Standortentwicklungs- und -verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, works in the tradition of Freiberg’s mining industry. With more than 40 years of business experiences SAXONIA attended the big regional structural changes within the region. Structurally the company is set up as a holding company held to half by the district of Middle Saxony and the city of Freiberg and is so an ...

SOMINCOR is a subsidiary of Lundin Mining. SOMINCOR owns and operates the Neves Corvo mine in Portugal. This copper and zinc mine is situated approximately 220 km southeast of Lisbon in the Alentejo district of southern Portugal. The mine site lies some 15 km southeast of the town of Castro Verde and exploits five major ore bodies from an underground mine. ...

TECNALIA Research & Innovation, legally a Foundation, is a private, independent and non-profit research organisation.  TECNALIA is the leading private and independent research and technology organisation in Spain employing around 1,300 people (225 PhDs) with an income of 100.2 M€ in 2016. TECNALIA has 6 business divisions, Energy and Environment, Industry and Transport, Sustainable Construction, Health, ICT and Technological Services. TECNALIA has ...

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Shell’s operations are divided into four businesses: Upstream, Integrated Gas and New Energies, Downstream, and Projects & Technology. In Upstream Shell focuses on exploration for new liquids and natural gas reserves and on developing major new projects where Shell technology and know-how add value for resource holders. In Integrated Gas ...

The Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) is a leading European competence centre on assessment and sustainable use of geological resources. GTK provides expertise that serves the interests of its clients, stakeholders and society as a whole. Working closely with its clients and partners, GTK creates solutions that lead to new technologies and business areas, as well as promote sustainable growth. ...

Panagiotis Xanthopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1992 and graduated from the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2015. Within his five year-long studies, he specialized in the field of metallurgical procedures and carried out his Diploma Thesis at the Laboratory of Hydrometallurgy. During the summer of 2014 he worked ...

Demian Kalebic is a chemist from Pula, Croatia with great interest in organic synthesis, chemistry of natural compounds, medicinal and supramolecular chemistry. He obtained both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. During studies he did his research in synthesis and complexation-properties studies of siderophore analogs – ...

Ana Luiza C. B. de Carvalho is a Ph.D. student at TU Clausthal, originally from Ourém, Pará, in Brazil. As ESR06, her research is focused on the development of a direct, ultra-fine particle-flotation technique through agglomeration for the reprocessing of sulfidic tailings. Ana Luiza has a BSc. degree in Mining Engineering from Universidade Federal do Pará in Marabá, Brazil. During her ...

Maja Vučković is a geologist and environmental scientist coming from the south of Croatia. She has lived and studied in four different countries across Europe and holds B.Sc and M.Sc degree from University of Zagreb. After completion of her internship at University of Lisbon in 2017, she decided to pursue a PhD degree. Currently, she’s a PhD candidate at KU ...

Tamara Azevedo Schueler has completed her Bachelor and Master’s degree in Microbiology by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. The combination of biotechnology and engineering has always been her main passion. For that reason, she decided to develop her projects for bachelor´s and master’s degree at School of Chemistry, where offers courses of chemical and bioprocesses engineering. She ...

Chiamaka Belsonia Opara doubles as an Environmental Biotechnologist and a Biochemist who hails from Nigeria. She obtained her MSc degree in Biotechnology from the University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom in 2017; and her BSc degree in Applied Biochemistry from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria in 2014. The course of study on ‘Microbial Technology’ undertaken during her MSc ...

He Niu was born in China. He specialized in material science and his research interests are focused on Inorganic Materials. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Shandong University of Science and Technology (SDUST), China. He accomplished his master thesis in Hydrogen Storage Group, University of Birmingham (UOB) in UK and held his Master’s degree of MRes. The title of his ...

Natália Pires Martins is a Brazilian engineer born in 1994. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (2016) from Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil, and a Master’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering (2019) from the same institution. As an undergraduate, Natália spent one exchange year at the University of Leeds, UK (2014-2015) thanks to the Science Without Borders ...

Jillian Helser is a PhD student at KU Leuven, originally from Austin, Texas, in the USA. As ESR 14, her research is focused on the environmental and health impacts of hazardous metals from tailing to product. Jillian has a BSc. degree in Environmental Science and Policy from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. During her bachelor’s degree, Jillian studied abroad ...

Lugas Raka Adrianto considers himself as an Indonesian student who is searching for adventures (research journeys included) in Europe. Some of you may know a little about Indonesia: this archipelagic country has a rich diversity (>15 000 thousands of islands) and unimaginable natural resources (mining is just one of them). Chemical engineering degree (ITB, Bandung) was one major that particularly ...