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Nor Kamariah is a chemist from Indonesia. She graduated with a master’s degree in chemistry from University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and obtained her bachelor’s degree from Lambung Mangkurat University (Indonesia). She worked for approximately 3 years in industrial sector as R&D specialist and quality control analyst in Indonesia. After being awarded a Danish Government Scholarship in 2017, she came to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosie Blannin is a geologist turned geometallurgist from the UK. She graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc Geology in 2016. Following this, she undertook the EMerald Erasmus Mundus Masters, a program focused on characterisation, processing and modelling in georesources engineering, and  graduated in 2018. During this time, she studied at Université de Liège (Belgium), École Nationale Supérieure de ...

Srećko Bevandić is a Geologist with an interest in mineralogy, ore deposits, geochemistry, and  geometallurgy. He was a teaching assistant in a course regarding optical mineralogy, geochemistry, ore deposits, and applied mineralogy and petrology. During his studies, his focus was mainly on ore deposits and geochemistry. He published one article. During his last year of study, he attended a short-term excursion ...

Alexandra Gomez Escobar is a geological engineer with over 6 years of experience in different areas of economy geology: geological modelling, resources estimation and technical, economic and legal valorization of mining properties. In addition, she has 2 years of international experience in geometallurgical characterization of industrial and metallic minerals and critical raw materials in England and France (Portuguese and German ...