16ᵗʰ Brazilian Meeting
on Adsorption

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Dr. Rezaei is Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering Department at University of Miami. She obtained her PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in Australia and LTU in Sweden in 2011. Her research focus broadly lies at the interface of chemical, materials science and environmental engineering, and the overall goal of her research group is development of advanced adsorbent materials and adsorption processes for separation, purification, and storage applications.

Rezaei’s research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), department of Energy (DOE), and department of Defense (DOD). She is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has received several awards including 2024 ACS ENFL Emerging Researcher. She is currently the Associate Editor of ACS Energy & Fuels journal.

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Dr. Gennady Gor is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from St. Petersburg State University in 2009 and conducted postdoctoral research at Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory before joining NJIT in 2016. Dr. Gor leads a research group that integrates molecular simulations, theory, and experiments to study the interactions of fluids with porous and soft materials. His current work spans confined liquids and electrolytes, atmospheric aerosols, and ultrasound propagation in porous media. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2020), and serves as Associate Editor of the journal Adsorption.

Title:  – Electrifying Adsorption Processes: New Regeneration Strategies for CO₂ Capture and Water Harvesting

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–  Alexandre Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), with recognized expertise in adsorption and cyclic separation processes. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft and has held research positions at Imperial College London, the University of Amsterdam, and Delft University of Technology, where he was also involved in coordinating major European research initiatives.

His research focuses on cyclic adsorption and reaction processes, CO₂ capture, water harvesting, and advanced sorbent materials, with applications spanning chemical industry, energy, and environment. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 37, and has received multiple distinctions for scientific excellence from FEUP. He has coordinated and participated in several competitive national and European projects, including Horizon Europe, EDF, and FCT-funded initiatives, and has led numerous industry collaborations with international partners.

Alexandre Ferreira is an active scientific leader in the adsorption community, serving as Chair of RIA 2024 and Co-Chair of FOA 2025. He is also deeply committed to teaching and academic service, having received repeated pedagogical excellence awards and holding several leadership roles within FEUP.

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Arvind Rajendran is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta. After completing his PhD from ETH Zurich, Arvind began his academic career at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and has been with the University of Alberta since 2012. Arvind has co-authored over 100 papers and supervised more than 50 MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers. His research group focuses on adsorptive gas separations, including applications in CO2 capture, direct air capture, oxygen purification, and helium separation. Arvind serves as the secretary of the International Adsorption Society (IAS).

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Benoit Coasne is an expert in the physics and physical chemistry of adsorption and transport in nanoporous materials. After his PhD in Paris (2003) and a 2 year postdoc in the USA (2003-2004), he was appointed CNRS researcher in Montpellier in 2005 and promoted CNRS Res. Director in 2015. During a 3 year visiting stay as joint Visiting Professor/CNRS Res. Director, he was leading a group on multiscale modeling of adsorption and transport in the CNRS/MIT lab at MIT in Boston (2012/15). He is currently affiliated in the Interdisciplinary Physics Lab in Grenoble. He is also (1) an Affiliate Member of the ILL Theory Group at Institut Laue Langevin (European Neutron Source) where he is in charge of Soft Matter Theory, (2) Deputy Director of the LabCom CARMEN2 on materials for new energies, and (3) Adjunct Professor at Univ. Maryland in the USA.  He is the chair of the Conference MATERIAUX 2026 (1500 people in Grenoble, Nov. 2026). Benoit Coasne was Cofounder and first President of the French Adsorption Society. He is now President of the Chemical Physics Division (SFP/SCF) and President of the FRA/GER adsorption initiative. Benoit Coasne’s research on adsorption, confinement, and phase transitions in porous materials covers a broad range of confined systems from atoms, molecular fluids, electrolytes/ionic liquids, and solids. He published ~240 papers including 3 Nature Materials, 6 Nature Comm., 2 Chem. Soc. Rev, 1 Chem. Rec., 2 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 3 ACS Nano, 3 Phys. Rev. Lett., 3 J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

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Idelfonso B. R. Nogueira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. His research focuses on the synergy between artificial intelligence and process engineering, covering topics such as digital twins, hybrid modelling, optimisation, advanced process control, and process systems engineering. His research group, AiP2S2 (AI-powered Products, Processes, Scales and Systems), aims to develop innovative solutions for a more sustainable industry. Among his main application areas are cyclic adsorption processes (SMB, SMBR, PSA), with contributions spanning modelling and simulation as well as AI-based optimisation and control strategie