The winner of Green Talents Award 2020

News- The annual Green Talents Competition, organised by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has been won by Laura Rovira Alsina, a doctoral student in Water Science and Technology at the University of Girona (Spain). The Green Talents Competition promotes the international exchange of innovative green ideas from different research field

The approach Laura is working on is to use the electricity from renewable sources in bioelectrochemical systems in which bacteria convert CO2 to organic chemicals. These chemicals can be stored and later used as a raw material to make a range of products such as acetate, ethanol, butyrate, among others

The jury were impressed by the multi-level approach of her research and lauded the concept of using surplus electricity to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by using bacteria in bioelectrochemical systems to produce organic chemicals

In an interview, she explained how the desire to make the world a better place formed the motivation for her research

This project, BioRECO2VER, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

1/27/2021

Ref: www.bioplasticsmagazine.com

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