{"id":7192,"date":"2025-02-10T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/?page_id=7192"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:11:53","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/i> Local<\/strong>: Auditorium Prof. Dr. Jos\u00e9 Marques Dos Santos<\/h3>\n

<\/i> Date: Tuesday, July 01st, 2025 | 17h00-17h30
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<\/i> Chairs<\/strong>: Jaime Cardoso<\/strong>, Vice-President of FEUPs\u2019 Scientific Council<\/em>
\n                 Francisco Vasques<\/strong>, Coordinator of of FEUPs\u2019 Special Project to Upgrade Doctoral Education<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>
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List of award winners by symposium<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nInstitution<\/strong><\/td>\nPrize name<\/strong><\/td>\nSymposium name<\/strong><\/td>\nWork title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Filipa Leal<\/strong><\/td>\ni3S<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nDual Crosslinked Norbornene Functionalized Pectin Hydrogel as a Bioink to 3D Print a Spinal Cord Scaffold<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margarida Gouveia<\/strong><\/td>\nINESC-TEC<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nEnhancing Lung Nodule Classification Using Domain-Specific Data Augmentation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vit\u00f3ria Dibo<\/strong><\/td>\nREQUIMTE\/LAQV, ISEP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nChemical and Biological Engineering<\/td>\nSimple and Non-Conventional Carbon-based Transducer for the Detection of Venlafaxine in Waters<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ana Rita Fernandes<\/strong><\/td>\nLSRE-LCM \/ LEPABE \/ ALiCE \/ FEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nChemical and Biological Engineering<\/td>\nFrom Contaminated Seawater to Clean Water: Pilot-Scale Evaluation of an Integrated AOP-Membrane Distillation Process<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paolo Giussani<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nCivil Engineering<\/td>\nPerformance of pultruded fibre reinforced composite materials in ventilated fa\u00e7ade components: experimental testing and assessment methodology<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruno Palley<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nCivil Engineering<\/td>\nTowards Machine-Learning-Based Digital Twins to Enhance Operation and Energy Management in Smart Buildings<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sofia Cardoso Martins<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP \/ Carnegie Mellon University \/ Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nElectrical and Computer Engineering<\/td>\nEnergy Predictive Modeling of 5G Virtualized Distributed Units<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alam Noor<\/strong><\/td>\nCISTER Research Center<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nElectrical and Computer Engineering<\/td>\nArtificial Intelligence-Enhanced Activity Recognition for Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection Systems<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marcella Mendes<\/strong><\/td>\nINESC-TEC \/ FEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nIndustrial Engineering and Management & Engineering and Public Policy<\/td>\nResearch & Development and Innovation in a Related-diversified Context<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tiago Monteiro<\/strong><\/td>\nINESC-TEC<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nIndustrial Engineering and Management & Engineering and Public Policy<\/td>\nLast-mile Delivery with Crowdshipping: a Multi-objective Approach<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beatriz Lopes<\/strong><\/td>\nIFIMUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nEngineering Physics<\/td>\n5G Energy Harvesting With Printable Flexible Antennas: Geometry And Performance Optimization<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miguel Almeida<\/strong><\/td>\nINESC-TEC<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nEngineering Physics<\/td>\nRemote Hydrogen Detection Using Optical Fibers Based on Tamm Plasmon Resonance<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sara Sousa<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nEnvironmental Engineering<\/td>\nDevelopment of Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Effluent Pollutant Concentrations from Wastewater Treatment Plants<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sara Santos<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nEnvironmental Engineering<\/td>\nEnhancing Aerobic Granular Sludge Systems for Leachate Co-treatment: Impact of Saline Stress, Fill-Draw Operation, and Biomedia Incorporation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fl\u00e1via Carvalhido<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nInformatics<\/td>\nStress Testing of Multimodal Models in Medical Image Report Generation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rodrigo Assaf<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nInformatics<\/td>\nCues to Fast-forward Collaboration: A Survey of Workspace Awareness and Visual Cues in XR Collaborative Systems<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beatriz G. Rodrigues<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nMaterials Science and Engineering<\/td>\nCharacterisation of Coated SiAlON Tools for Milling Inconel 718<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mafalda Moreira<\/strong><\/td>\nFCUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nMaterials Science and Engineering<\/td>\nEffects of Structural Engineering of Flexible Bi2Te3 Thin Films for Robust Surface Transport<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sourav Sudhakaran<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nMechanical Engineering<\/td>\nSuper-Resolution of Wind Data at Perdig\u00e3o Using Machine Learning<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jorge Wolfs Gil<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nMechanical Engineering<\/td>\nInfluence of Dendrite Morphology on Fatigue Crack Propagation Behaviour in DED’ed 18Ni300 Maraging steel<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pedro Severino Camacho<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nMechanical Engineering<\/td>\nDynamic Response of Harmonically Loaded Epoxy Resin Structures Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elena Castano<\/strong><\/td>\nCERENA \u2013 FEUP \/ University of Huelva<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nMining Engineering and Geo-Resources<\/td>\nDevelopment of a New Mathematical Procedure for Radon Diffusion Coefficient Measurement; Application to Eco-friendly Construction Materials<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Valente Paciente<\/strong><\/td>\nCERENA – FEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nMining Engineering and Geo-Resources<\/td>\nHydrometallurgical Processes for the Recovery and Extraction of Metals from Ores<\/em><\/p>\n

Conversion of Microalgae by-products into High-value Bioproducts<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Cla\u00fadia L. Duarte<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUNL-FCT\/UC-FCT\/Biotrend<\/td>\nBest Poster Communication Award<\/td>\nRefining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carolina Fernandes Henriques<\/strong><\/td>\nUC-FCT\/UNL-FCT\/a4f<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nRefining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering<\/td>\nMechanical Cell Disruption and Protein Extraction from Dried Biomass of Ulva sp.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
La\u00eds Bertolino<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nSpatial Planning<\/td>\nThe Multifaceted Nature of Urban Plots: the Case of New York<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Micael Sim\u00f5es<\/strong><\/td>\nINESC TEC \/ FEUP<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nSustainable Energy Systems<\/td>\nTSO-DSO Coordination: Fostering Demand Side Flexibility for Optimal Operation of the Overall Electric Power System<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alisson Garcia-Herrera<\/strong><\/td>\nPublic University of Navarre<\/td>\nBest Oral Communication Award<\/td>\nTransport Systems and Mobility<\/td>\nCollaborative logistics and heuristic optimization for sustainable last-mile urban distribution<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

List of prizes for the Venture Scientists and Hackathon (Innovation and Pitch) sessions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nInstitution<\/strong><\/td>\nProject\/ Team Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Best Venture Scientists – Pitch Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

In\u00eas Freitas<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PDEQB<\/td>\nEcoWires – Plastic-free smart packaging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rita Martins<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PDEQB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Science Communication Hackathon – Innovation Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Ana Cristina Castro<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PDMD<\/td>\nTime Travelers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B\u00e1rbara Bender<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEGI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diana Sousa<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PDMD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jadna da Cruz<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miguel Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Science Communication Hackathon – Pitch Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Ana Camarinha<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEB<\/td>\nThe Meteorite Busters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jorge Ferreira<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raushan Mukhamejanova<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PDMD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rosana Oliveira<\/strong><\/td>\nFEUP – PRODEC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7192\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe.up.pt\/dce\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}