Daniela Vanessa Rosendo Lopes

Junior Researcher

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  • Materials and Ceramic Engineering
  • 9.3.17

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Education:

2011 – Integrated Master in Environmental Engineering, thesis title: “Studies on the treatment of urban landfill leachates by Fenton-like processes with zero-valent iron”.

2020 – PhD in Advanced Materials and Processing (AvaMTech), thesis title “Electrochemical reduction of iron oxides into zero-valent iron for red mud valorisation”.

Training:

2018 – Scanning Electron Microscopy | Hitachi S4100 – Independent operator training.

2021 – Scanning Electron Microscopy | Hitachi SU-70 + EDS (Bruker, QUANTAX 400) – Independent operator training.

2022 – X-ray Diffraction | X’Pert-Pro M.P.D. Philips/PANalytical X-ray diffractometer – Independent operator training.

 

Employment history:

2009-2008: Research Fellow for initiates (BSc) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

2012: Research Fellow at Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal.

2013-2014: Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

2014-2015: Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Green Chemistry of the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland.

2020-2022: Research Fellow at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

2022: Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

January 2023- 2024: Contracted Researcher, CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

September 2024-ongoing: CEEC, Research Eployment Contract FCT (2023.07163.CEECIND)

Current Activity

- Development of CO2 – free steel production by electrowinning in acidic and basic electrolytes;

- Development of electrocatalysts for green hydrogen generation.

Research Interests

Electrochemical reduction; processing of cellular ceramics for electrolytic and catalytic applications; water splitting for hydrogen generation; iron waste recycling and valorisation; wastewater treatment; adsorption; catalysis.

Supervisions

PhD Thesis:

- Adélio Fumo, Dec 2023-ongoing, sustainable iron alloying


MSc Theses:

- Inês Ferreira, 2024-ongoing, iron rich waste valorisation for iron electrodeposition;

- Mónica Margarido, 2024-ongoing, preparation of an electrocatalyst for H2 evolution;

- Américo Cruz, 2022-2023, "Desenvolvimento de elétrodos inovadores para a produção de hidrogénio verde/Development of innovative electrodes for the green hydrogen production", MSc Degree Program of the Integrated Master in Materials Engineering of the University of Aveiro (Supervision);

- Francisco Duarte, 2021-2022, "Industrial iron-rich slags valorisation by electrodeposition for steel production", MSc Degree Program of the Integrated Master in Materials Engineering of the University of Aveiro (Supervision);

- Sixing Cao, 2015-2016, “Studies on the reactivity of zero-valent iron (ZVI) with hydrogen peroxide for nitrate reduction in mine water”, MSc Degree Program of Chemical and Process Engineering, Laboratory of Green Chemistry of the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Mikkeli unit, Finland (single supervision).

PostDoc supervision:

- Dr Aleksey Lisenkov, January- June 2023, "Green iron electrodeposition from alkaline suspensions based on hematite-magnetite mixtures with iron-rich industrial waste addition", Department of Materials Engineering, University of Aveiro (Co-supervision);

Erasmus+ Internship: Clara Boehme, October 2021- February 2022, "Electrowinning of Fe from iron oxides in strong alkaline aqueous solutions" (single supervision).

Awards

- 2 Young Researcher Travel supports for conferences by JECS Trust Fund (2020, 2021)

- PhD scholarship in the highly competitive Advanced Materials and Processing doctoral program (AdvaMTech), FCT Portugal (2016-2020)

- Full scholarship for attending a PhD course on minerals industry sustainability within a Nordic context, offered to 20 people by NordMin company, in Luleå University of Technology, Sweden (2014)

- Award for the 3% of the best students in the course of the Integrated Master Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Coimbra (2010)

- Award for the 3% of the best students in the course of the Integrated Master Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Coimbra (2009)

Ongoing Supervisions

Adélio Fumo

PhD Student

Projects

Publications

Biomass fly ash granules as a promising catalyst to promote producer gas quality from residual forest biomass steam gasification

Gomes, HGMF; Lopes, DV; Moura, JM; Ribeiro, JP; Cruz, NC; Matos, MAA; Tarelho, LAC
2025, ENERGY, 319.

Combining residual iron dust and biomass fly ash as in-situ waste-based catalysts to promote tar reduction and enhance producer gas quality from biomass steam gasification

Gomes, HGMF; Lopes, DV; Ribeiro, JP; Moura, JM; Cruz, NMC; Yaremchenko, A; Nunes, MI; Matos, MAA; Tarelho, LAC
2025, JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 527.

Enhancing hydrogen production from biomass steam gasification: The role of chemical variability of industrial biomass fly ash catalysts

Gomes, HGMF; Lopes, D; Ribeiro, JP; Moura, JM; Cruz, NMC; Nunes, TF; Yaremchenko, AA; Matos, MAA; Tarelho, LAC
2025, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, 187.

Iron electrowinning from a nickel refinery residue for sustainable steelmaking

Duarte, F; Lisenkov, AD; Kovalevsky, A; Lopes, D
2025, ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA, 515.

Electroreduction of Magnetite for Steel Production from Ceramic Suspensions Containing Metallic Iron

Fumo, A; Lopes, DV; Starykevich, M; Kovalevsky, AV
2025, JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 172, 1.

Communication-On the Possibility of Fe Electrowinning from Hematite Suspensions in Mixed-Acid Electrolytes

Lopes, DV; Frade, JR; Kovalevsky, AV
2024, JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 171, 1.
ISBN: 1945-7111

Composite MAX phase/MXene/Ni electrodes with a porous 3D structure for hydrogen evolution and energy storage application

Sergiienko, SA; Lajaunie, L; Rodríguez-Castellón, E; Constantinescu, G; Lopes, DV; Shcherban, ND; Calvino, JJ; Labrincha, JA; Sofer, Z; Kovalevsky, AV
2024, RSC ADVANCES, 14, 5, 3052-3069.
ISBN: 2046-2069

Phosphorus removal from urban wastewater through adsorption using biogenic calcium carbonate

Santos, AF; Lopes, D; Alvarenga, P; Gando-Ferreira, LM; Quina, MJ
2024, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 351.
ISBN: 1095-8630

Low-Temperature Electrowinning of Iron from Mixed Hematite-Magnetite Alkaline Suspensions

Boehme, C; Starykevich, M; Constantinescu, G; Kovalevsky, AV; Lopes, DV
2023, JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 170, 5.

Design of laser-induced graphene electrodes for water splitting

Lopes, DV; Santos, NF; Moura, JP; Fernandes, AJS; Costa, FM; Kovalevsky, A
2023, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, 48, 11, 4158-4172.

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