Seafarms nya doktorander är på plats!
Nu är Seafarms tre nya doktorander på plats. Två av dem arbetar i Fokusområde 5, det vill säga med hållbarhet och projektets livscykelanalys, och den tredje i Fokusområde 3 som handlar om vilka ämnen som kan utvinnas ur algerna och hur de sedan kan vidareförädlas.
’s doctoral research involves assessing the sustainability of the Seafarm project, which aims to explore the potential for a new algae-based bio resource industry on the West coast of Sweden. His research focus is in the use of industrial ecology tools to shed light on sustainability aspects of this future bio-based industry, especially of seaweed aquaculture, by means of environmental analysis and industrial ecology methods, such as Life Cycle Analysis. He is also looking at the scale-up potential of kelp aquaculture, public perceptions of aquaculture on the Swedish West Coast, and on the identification of other major hurdles to the development of the Seafarm vision using scenario-based methodologies. His academic background is in Geography (Ba) from King’s College London and in Sustainable Technology (MSc) from KTH, Stockholm. The PhD is funded by Formas as a part of the Seafarm project; until 2017, he worked at the division of Industrial Ecology in the department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) at KTH, Stockholm, however now he is a part of the division of Water and Environmental Engineering.
His background is in Chemistry (Ba) from Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, and Geoscience and Environmental Education (Lic) and in Analytical Chemistry (MSc), both from University of Sao Paulo. During his academic career, Mauricio was granted in 2006 with a national Petrobras Award of Scientific Innovation due to a novel quality control methods to assess biofuel quality in situ. Before starting his PhD at KTH, Mauricio worked 2 year editing academic books in a publish house (Positivo) and assisted a chemistry professor in public high-school for people with low income, both in Brazil. He also did a short research exchange cooperation (3 months) at the Department of Analitical Chemitry at the Moscow State University (Russia) where he worked on analytical development of methods employing electrophorese capillary technique.