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Current Postdoc Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Has an interest in the recovery of critical raw materials: electrochemical separation, sustainable mining, urban mining, (electro)hydrometallurgy, membrane separation and synthesis of greener materials, recycling of e-waste, brine processing, and the circular economy. Received the Best Thesis Award in Environmental Sustainability (2022) and Academic Productivity Award (2021). Among the top 2% of most relevant researchers in the world according to Stanford/Elsevier.

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Dr. Rogério Siqueira graduated in Chemical Engineering from PUC-Rio in 2002, and, at the same institution, he obtained his master's degree in 2005 and his doctorate in 2009 from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering (DEQM), working intensively with computational and experimental thermodynamics. Between 2010 and 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at DEQM/PUC-Rio in the area of pyrometallurgical processes applied to metal extraction, and also focused on the synthesis of oxidized nanocatalysts. Since then, he has worked as an adjunct professor and researcher at DEQM/PUC-Rio. Between 2015 and 2017, the professor assumed the role of coordinator of the Chemical Engineering course at PUC-Rio and is currently a member of the management committee of NANOFAB, a multi-user laboratory for the characterization of nanomaterials, under the direction of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He has a strong interest in the areas of the synthesis of oxidized nanocatalysts using cellulose nanofibers as reactive support, with a focus on applications aimed at hydrogen generation, the use of cellulose nanofibers for the removal of metals from aqueous bodies, as well as in the thermodynamic modeling of fluid systems with strong deviations from ideality, such as those associated with the absorption of acid gases (e.g. CO2 or H2S) in solutions containing amines at high pressures, as well as systems containing hydrocarbons and alcohols, using both equilibrium data (ELV or ELL) and chemical activity generated by the COSMO-SAC formalism.

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Gabriel is a Materials Engineer who graduated from PUC-Rio in December 2008, with an MSc from the same institution in 2011. He is a specialist in melting, the primary and secondary refining of steel, as well as the thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions, with extensive experience in electric arc furnace (EAF) technology for steelmaking. This includes expertise in both chemical and electrical aspects, as well as alloy addition modeling for ladle furnaces. He is a Steelmaking Technical Manager at Gerdau and enrolled in the doctoral program at DEQM/PUC-Rio, expected to be completed in 2027.

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Professor Eduardo Junca has a PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from USP with a sandwich period at the University of Utah, a master’s in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering also from USP (2009), graduated in Production Engineering from Universidade Nove de Julho (2018), and graduated in Technology in Metallurgy and Materials from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Espírito Santo. He is currently a Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, where he develops research projects in the research areas of urban mines, extractive metallurgy, and waste and materials processing.

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Dr. Carlos Oba has a degree in Geology from the University of São Paulo (1985), a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse/France (2000), and a PhD in Mineral Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (2000). He holds a post-doctorate from the Institute of Geosciences of the University of São Paulo (2002). He has experience in the area of geosciences, with an emphasis on mineralogical and technological characterization of mineral raw materials, working mainly in the following areas: mineral research, mining law, the technological characterization of ores, mineral processes, phosphates, and fertilizers.