Winner of the ESAI Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2024

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ESAI are delighted to announce Jeovan Araujo, from Technological University of The Shannon as the winner of the prestigious ESAI Postgraduate Researcher of the Year Award 2024. Jeovan’s research was titled “Towards Circularity for Petroleum- and Bio-Based Plastics: Tailoring Properties and End-of-Life Routes”.

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Plastics play an indispensable role in modern society, yet their environmental impact is alarming. Jeovan’s research addresses this pressing issue by focusing on the degradation of mixed petroleum- and bio-based plastics and their upcycling into valuable bioproducts, particularly bacterial nanocellulose, while also developing bioplastics with enhanced properties. This research was supervised by Dr. Margaret Brennan Fournet, TUS.