Researcher
Ciência ID: 3412-200E-5EDC
Laura M. Esteves graduated in 2013 with an integrated master's degree in Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico from Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL, Portugal) and completed her PhD in Chemistry from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF/Brazil) in February 2018. From March 2018 to May 2019 she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Chemical Engineering Department). Between May 2019 - September 2022, she worked as a contracted researcher at LAQV@REQUIMTE (FCT/UNL, Portugal). Since March 2023, she has worked as a contracted researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE/IST). She has huge interest in sustainability issues in a way that her research activities are mostly focused on the development of catalysts and materials for the improvement of processes governing energy and environmental concerns with societal impact. A significant part of her publications is related to lignocellulosic biomass conversion to value-added products such as hydrogen, additives for gasoline and bio-jet fuel. Other significant part of her work is focused on carbon derived materials applied as catalysts or adsorbents, such as carbon nanotubes, MOF and MOF@IL composited derived carbons. Recently, she starts a project related to the development of advanced composites to be used as photocatalysts for CO2 photoreduction towards value-added products.