Apresentação Pessoal

Helena Passos is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2017 of the University of Aveiro. Between 2017 and 2019, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials under an European Research Council (ERC) project focused on the use of aqueous biphasic systems for the purification of egg yolk antibodies as alternative biopharmaceuticals, and an international ERA-MIN project concerning the recovery of cobalt and rare earth elements (REE) from nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. In September of 2018, H. Passos was awarded with a Junior Researcher position by FCT (CEEC IND 2017) to develop novel and sustainable processes based on the use of alternative and green solvents for the recovery and recycling of critical raw materials from electronic waste. Since September of 2023, H. Passos is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, and member of LSRE-LCM - Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering - Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials and ALiCE - Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering.