PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize
The winning team
Raquel Durana Moita
Henrique A. Matos
Maria Cristina Fernandes
Prof. Clemente Pedro Nunes
We congratulate the winners of the 2009 PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize. They are:
Raquel Durana Moita
Raquel Durana Moita obtained her degree in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
She is a Ph.D. student at the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico of Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests are in the area of Process System Engineering: Dynamic Modelling, Simulation and Optimization; Process Integration; and Environment and Energy.
For more details visit http://web.ist.utl.pt/raquel.durana/
Henrique A. Matos
Henrique A. Matos is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, and the coordinator of the Process Integration and Optimization group of Centre of Chemical Processes (CPQ).
His current research interests are in two main areas: Process System Engineering (Modelling, Simulation and Dynamic Optimization; Process Integration: Energy and Mass; Scheduling and Planning of batch Chemical Processes; Sustainability Analysis of Chemical Processes) and Thermodynamics of Supercritical Fluids (Phase Equilibrium: Solid-SCF & Liquid-SCF, Particle Formation: Nano and Micro Particles of pure and composites, Modelling the SCF precipitation phenomena).
He has more than 180 publications including more than 40 reviewed publications, and is very active in industry projects and technology transfer. He is one of the Portuguese delegates on the CAPE-WP of the EFCE.
For more details visit http://web.ist.utl.pt/henrimatos/
Cristina Fernandes
Cristina Fernandes received her Bachelor and Ph.D. on Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon. She is presently an assistant professor at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at IST, and a researcher at the Process Separation and Effluent Treatment Group at the same university.
Her research interests are Waste Water Minimisation, Optimisation and Process Integration.
Clemente Pedro Nunes
Clemente Pedro Nunes received his degree in Chemical-Industrial Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in 1971; and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Birmingham & Technical University of Lisbon in 1975. He received a D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 2003 in the Technical University of Lisbon.
He was Director general of Higher Education in the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Chairman and CEO of Quimigal-Quimica de Portugal SA and he is currently an invited full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico of Technical University of Lisbon. He is also a managing partner of Clemente Nunes - Gestäo Empresarial, Lda, as well as a Business Manager and Consultant. He is coordinator of the National Group for Process Integration, International Energy Agency.
Mário Jorge Pinho
Mário Jorge Pinho is a Technical Manager at Quimigal, S.A , Grupo CUF at Estarreja.




