1 December 2025
Daniela Lopes, a researcher at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering (DEMaC) and the CICECO Associated Laboratory – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, was awarded the 2025 Young Researcher Award in Electrochemistry by the Portuguese Society of Electrochemistry.
The award was presented during the XXVI Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Electrochemistry, held in Porto between November 19 and 21, 2025, recognizing her scientific contributions in the field of electrochemistry. During the event, the researcher also gave an invited lecture entitled “Electrochemical route to green steel: challenges, insights and future perspectives,” in which she highlighted recent advances in her work.
Her research focuses on the production of “green steel” through electrochemical processes, an emerging approach that aims to produce metallic iron directly from ores and industrial waste, in a low-carbon manner. Replacing conventional high-temperature carbon-based reduction with electrochemical reduction in an alkaline medium, this route has the potential to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, decrease overall energy consumption, enable decentralized and flexible production, and add value to secondary raw materials such as steelmaking waste and other iron-containing materials.
This distinction reflects the growing relevance of electrochemical technologies in sustainable metallurgical processing and highlights the contribution of researchers from DEMaC, CICECO, and the University of Aveiro to the development of lower-carbon industrial technologies and the design of materials that support this transition.
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