Meet our researcher: Giovanna Sauve
Giovanna Sauve was born in Rome, Italy, in 1992. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Enhanced landfill mining featured in UK press
In a short article journalist Josh Loeb of the award-winning ‘Engineering & Technology’ monthly magazine analyzes how innovative technologies can help retrieving materials buried deep in waste sites.
Meet our researcher: Thupten Palden
Thupten Palden is a 28 years old young scientist from Tibet. He did his schoolings in India before coming to Europe to pursue higher education. He obtained his BSc in chemistry from 2009 to 2012 at Jacobs University in Bremen, DE
Digitizing the Circular Economy
During a four day summer school, prof. Markus Reuter introduced a group of 20 students to flowsheeting of physical separation, metallurgical and recycling systems by hands-on use of simulation software (HSC Sim)
Meet our researcher: Vidmantas Bieliunas
Vidmantas Bieliūnas is a new SIM² KU Leuven researcher working on the ETN COSMIC EU project. In this interview you can get to know more about this PhD researcher.
Inaugural lecture Prof. Y. Pontikes (SIM² KU Leuven)
Prof. Yiannis Pontikes, Research Line Leader in SIM² KU Leuven, will provide his long-awaited inaugural lecture on March 9, 2017, 16.30h (MTM 00.39, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, Heverlee). We invite our stakeholders to participate.
DEMETER Summer School – Registration open
On 24-26 August 2016 a unique Summer School will take place in Leuven, Belgium. The aim of this Summer School is to bring PhD students and postdocs together to learn and discuss about the “Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles“. Registration is now open and
SIM² KU Leuven launches Ray Cokes animation film on red mud valorisation
SIM2 KU Leuven is proud to announce that its animation film on red mud (bauxite residue) valorisation, featuring former MTV Star Ray Cokes, is now available on-line. The film shows how the red mud problem can be turned into a resource opportunity using smart science and technology.
SIM² KU Leuven wins three new EU ETN projects
As the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 MSCA-ETN NEW-MINE project, KU Leuven is very happy to announce that this project obtained a record breaking score of 97,6% and has been formally granted by the European Commission. The approval of NEW-MINE (“EU Training Network for Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining”) represents a major breakthrough