Frederico Marques Penha

I have joined the Chemical Engineering department under the Division of Resource Recovery of KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Stockholm, Sweden in 2021. I'm a Food Engineer that since the beginning of my scientific career focused on the application of classical separation operations to new contexts aiming at further improvements in the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes. Among the classical technologies, my expertise is crystallization and membrane separation processes. I got my PhD from the University of São Paulo, where I studied elementary phenomena involved in the simultaneous crystallization of inorganic salts, funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Part of my PhD research was conducted at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), where I investigated the integration and optimization of crystallization methods applied for multicomponent solutions, focused on membrane-assisted crystallization, with funding awarded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). In this same field, I continued at the same university as a Postdoc, studying in-situ epitaxial growth during evaporative simultaneous crystallization. Later on, I was a member of the Eral Lab on the Process and Energy Department at TU Delft, as fellow of the LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Programme - a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND - to perform research focused on controlling polymorphism using laser-induced nucleation. My research interests include: - novel crystallization techniques and approaches, - nucleation and polymorph control, - membrane processes, - process integration and intensification - wastewater/effluent treatment.