Local: Auditorium Prof. Dr. José Marques Dos Santos

Date: Tuesday, July 01st, 2025 | 17h00-17h30

Chairs: Jaime Cardoso, Vice-President of FEUPs’ Scientific Council
                 Francisco Vasques, Coordinator of of FEUPs’ Special Project to Upgrade Doctoral Education

List of award winners by symposium

Name Institution Prize name Symposium name Work title
Filipa Leal i3S Best Poster Communication Award Biomedical Engineering Dual Crosslinked Norbornene Functionalized Pectin Hydrogel as a Bioink to 3D Print a Spinal Cord Scaffold
Margarida Gouveia INESC-TEC Best Oral Communication Award Biomedical Engineering Enhancing Lung Nodule Classification Using Domain-Specific Data Augmentation
Vitória Dibo REQUIMTE/LAQV, ISEP Best Poster Communication Award Chemical and Biological Engineering Simple and Non-Conventional Carbon-based Transducer for the Detection of Venlafaxine in Waters
Ana Rita Fernandes LSRE-LCM / LEPABE / ALiCE / FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Chemical and Biological Engineering From Contaminated Seawater to Clean Water: Pilot-Scale Evaluation of an Integrated AOP-Membrane Distillation Process
Paolo Giussani FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Civil Engineering Performance of pultruded fibre reinforced composite materials in ventilated façade components: experimental testing and assessment methodology
Bruno Palley FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Civil Engineering Towards Machine-Learning-Based Digital Twins to Enhance Operation and Energy Management in Smart Buildings
Sofia Cardoso Martins FEUP / Carnegie Mellon University / Instituto de Telecomunicações Best Oral Communication Award Electrical and Computer Engineering Energy Predictive Modeling of 5G Virtualized Distributed Units
Alam Noor CISTER Research Center Best Oral Communication Award Electrical and Computer Engineering Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Activity Recognition for Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection Systems
Marcella Mendes INESC-TEC / FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Industrial Engineering and Management & Engineering and Public Policy Research & Development and Innovation in a Related-diversified Context
Tiago Monteiro INESC-TEC Best Oral Communication Award Industrial Engineering and Management & Engineering and Public Policy Last-mile Delivery with Crowdshipping: a Multi-objective Approach
Beatriz Lopes IFIMUP Best Poster Communication Award Engineering Physics 5G Energy Harvesting With Printable Flexible Antennas: Geometry And Performance Optimization
Miguel Almeida INESC-TEC Best Oral Communication Award Engineering Physics Remote Hydrogen Detection Using Optical Fibers Based on Tamm Plasmon Resonance
Sara Sousa FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Environmental Engineering Development of Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Effluent Pollutant Concentrations from Wastewater Treatment Plants
Sara Santos FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Environmental Engineering Enhancing Aerobic Granular Sludge Systems for Leachate Co-treatment: Impact of Saline Stress, Fill-Draw Operation, and Biomedia Incorporation
Flávia Carvalhido FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Informatics Stress Testing of Multimodal Models in Medical Image Report Generation
Rodrigo Assaf FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Informatics Cues to Fast-forward Collaboration: A Survey of Workspace Awareness and Visual Cues in XR Collaborative Systems
Beatriz G. Rodrigues FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Materials Science and Engineering Characterisation of Coated SiAlON Tools for Milling Inconel 718
Mafalda Moreira FCUP Best Oral Communication Award Materials Science and Engineering Effects of Structural Engineering of Flexible Bi2Te3 Thin Films for Robust Surface Transport
Sourav Sudhakaran FEUP Best Poster Communication Award Mechanical Engineering Super-Resolution of Wind Data at Perdigão Using  Machine Learning
Jorge Wolfs Gil FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Mechanical Engineering Influence of Dendrite Morphology on Fatigue Crack Propagation Behaviour in DED’ed 18Ni300 Maraging steel
Pedro Severino Camacho FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Mechanical Engineering Dynamic Response of Harmonically Loaded Epoxy Resin Structures Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes
Elena Castano CERENA – FEUP / University of Huelva Best Poster Communication Award Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources Development of a New Mathematical Procedure for Radon Diffusion Coefficient Measurement; Application to Eco-friendly Construction Materials
Valente Paciente CERENA – FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources Hydrometallurgical Processes for the Recovery and Extraction of Metals from Ores

Conversion of Microalgae by-products into High-value Bioproducts
Claúdia L. Duarte FEUNL-FCT/UC-FCT/Biotrend Best Poster Communication Award Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering
Carolina Fernandes Henriques UC-FCT/UNL-FCT/a4f Best Oral Communication Award Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering Mechanical Cell Disruption and Protein Extraction from Dried Biomass of Ulva sp.
Laís Bertolino FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Spatial Planning The Multifaceted Nature of Urban Plots: the Case of New York
Micael Simões INESC TEC / FEUP Best Oral Communication Award Sustainable Energy Systems TSO-DSO Coordination: Fostering Demand Side Flexibility for Optimal Operation of the Overall Electric Power System
Alisson Garcia-Herrera Public University of Navarre Best Oral Communication Award Transport Systems and Mobility Collaborative logistics and heuristic optimization for sustainable last-mile urban distribution

List of prizes for the Venture Scientist and Hackathon (Innovation and Pitch) sessions

Name Institution Project/ Team Name

Best Venture Scientist – Pitch Award
Inês Freitas FEUP – PDEQB EcoWires – Plastic-free smart packaging
Rita Martins FEUP – PDEQB

Science Communication Hackathon – Innovation Award
Ana Cristina Castro FEUP – PDMD Time Travelers
Bárbara Bender FEUP – PRODEGI
Diana Sousa FEUP – PDMD
Jadna da Cruz FEUP – PRODEI
Miguel Guimarães FEUP – PRODEI

Science Communication Hackathon – Pitch Award
Ana Camarinha FEUP – PRODEB The Meteorite Busters
Jorge Ferreira FEUP – PRODEI
Raushan Mukhamejanova FEUP – PDMD
Rosana Oliveira FEUP – PRODEC