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Raquel Viveiros wins scholarship from the YERUN Research Mobility Awards

19-02-2018

Raquel Viveiros wins scholarship from the YERUN Research Mobility Awards

Raquel Viveiros, post-doctoral researcher at CleanMIPTech group from the Green Polymer Synthesis and Processing Laboratory at LAQV-REQUIMTE, has been awarded a YERUN Research Mobility Award. Her research is focused on developing affinity devices – Molecular Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) using green technologies such as supercritical carbon dioxide for several applications (environmental, sensing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, etc).

“This award will allow me to go to The National Centre for Sensor Research from Dublin City University to develop SMART MATERIALS FOR SENSING. Working with other YERUN academics on a research project, promote multi-disciplinary research across the YERUN network, enrich the research and training opportunities in early career scholars within the YERUN network. This short trainingship will allow me to have a step-forward on my background, gaining experience, knowledge and know-how on novel sensors of interest for both groups involved”, explains Raquel Viveiros.

YERUN Researcher Mobility Awards are competitive awards for academics and researchers from PhDs studying at YERUN universities to early career and established academics. The programme provides support for researchers to undertake two weeks of research at one of the other YERUN partner institutions from a different country. In this first edition of the YERUN Research Mobility Awards there were 142 applications, and Raquel Viveiros was one of the 26 awardees.