REN Scientific Merit Medal Winners - Ciência LP

The winners of the 2nd edition of the REN Scientific Merit Medals - LP Science were announced on 28th November at a ceremony held at the Impresa Building. The 1st Prize in the Student Category was awarded to Valdemar Abril Armindo with his Master's thesis "Diagnosis and Fault Analysis in the State Windings of a Hexaphase PMSM with Predictive Control, for application in Electric Vehicles and Wind Generators"; and the 1st Prize in the Women Researchers Category was awarded to Ariel Neves with her Master's thesis "Optimisation of an Anaerobic Digestion Plant - Project in Renewable Engineering".

These medals, which are the result of a partnership between REN and Centro Ciência LP and supported by the FCT, seek to distinguish and value master's and doctoral work in the field of energy and energy transition by young people from Portuguese-speaking countries. The award also has the particularity of having a category for women researchers, applying the principle of gender equality.

According to António Bob Santos, member of FCT's Board of Directors, the foundation "supports research and development projects, Studentships doctoral projects, and institutions in the area of energy and energy transition," and is therefore associated with these initiatives that contribute "to producing new knowledge around these areas.