Pierluca Vitale
- HOME INSTITUTION: Second University of Naples (Italy)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Technical University of Wien (Austria), Johannes Fellner
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Johann Fellner
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2016-11- 3 to 2017-01- 31
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Pierluca examined recycling technologies that are related to 6 Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) streams: concrete; bricks; ceramics, gypsum; wood; asbestos; and steel. This research contributes to existing knowledge through the cat
Paola Villoria Saez
- HOME INSTITUTION: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid (Spain)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Loughborough University, Loughborough (UK)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Mohamed Osmani
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2017-11-16 to 2018-02-15
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: I examined the current CDW generation trends, recovery rates and challenges across the EU and identified existing and emerging CDW recycling and recovery technologies for six key CDW streams.
Marisa Álvarez
- HOME INSTITUTION: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Teresa Carvalho
- WG: 2.2
- DATES: 2016-12- 12 to 2016-12- 16
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Marisa learned about the main techniques currently used for the recovery and valorisation of mining waste including current best practices and available technologies on landfill mining and mining residues.
Anna Bogush
- HOME INSTITUTION: University College London (UK)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ICPF) of the CAS (Czech Republic)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Michal Šyc
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2017-01- 28 to 2017-03- 08
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Anna collaborated in the organization of the MINEA WG3 workshop in Prague (Oct 2016). She also contributed to the analysis and review of the utilization of APC residues in the cement industry.
Mark Simoni
- HOME INSTITUTION: The Geological Survey of Norway
- HOST INSTITUTION: Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Zoltán Horváth
- WG: 4
- DATES: 2016-10- 5 to 2016-10- 9
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Collaboration in the organization of the MINEA WG4 workshop in Budapest (Oct 2016). Elaboration of a white paper covering the description of the current challenges for resource management, the need for an integrated approach for anthropogenic resource cla
Florian Huber
- HOME INSTITUTION: Technical University of Wien (Austria)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (Germany)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Christian Adam
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2017-03- 05 to 2017-03- 21
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Florian conducted several experiments of combustion using treated MSWIFA pellets to test their performance and analysis of fly ashes.
Paul Einhäupl
- HOME INSTITUTION: Linköping University, Linköping (Sweden)
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium), Steven Van Passel
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Steven van Passel
- WG: 2.2
- DATES: 2017-06-01 to 2017-06-30
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Paul gained a first hands-on experience on different landfill management options. He interviewed various key actors of a landfill mining project to learn about their different perspectives.
John Laurence Esguerra
- HOME INSTITUTION: Linköping University, Linköping (Sweden)
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium), Steven Van Passel
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Steven van Passel
- WG: 2.2
- DATES: 2017-06-01 to 2017-06-30
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, JL did an extensive literature review of previous economic assessments including framework, methodological and empirical studies on landfill mining and landfill management.
Katalin Szabo
- HOME INSTITUTION: Geological and Geophisical Institute of Hungary, Budapest (Hungary)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Geological Survey of Finland, Kuopio (Finland)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Tommi Kauppila
- WG: 4
- DATES: 2017-06-05 to 2017-06-10
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: The mission involved familiarization with several mining waste related topics, field visits to mining waste facilities and a minerals processing test plant.
Jurgita Seniūnaitė
- HOME INSTITUTION: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius (Lithuania)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Michal Šyc
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2017-12-05 to 2017-12-15
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Jurgita conducted experiments of different fractions natural weathering municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash chemical composition and leaching properties.
Sandra Müller
- HOME INSTITUTION: Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology), St. Gallen (Switzerland)
- HOST INSTITUTION: TU Wien, Vienna (Austria)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Ulrich Kral
- WG: 4
- DATES: 2017-11-20 to 2018-02-17
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Sandra carried out a case study to classify the metal resources of municipal solid waste based on the Specifications for the UN Classification of Anthropogenic Resources.
Paul Gontia
- HOME INSTITUTION: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Gang Liu
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2018-03-11 to 2018-04-04
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: The main goal of the exchange was to better understand historical databases of material composition in residential and nonresidential buildings. In doing so we have analyzed data sources, methods and approaches needed to develop material composition databases with a primary attention to the Nord European context.
Dominik Blasenbauer
- HOME INSTITUTION: Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management, TU Wien, Austria
- HOST INSTITUTION: UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA, Portugal
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Margarida Quina
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2018-09-01 to 2018-09-30
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Writing a report about the legal situation and current practice of municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash utilisation and disposal in Europe.
Tamara Bimesmeier
- HOME INSTITUTION: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Aditi Ramola
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2018-10-13 to 2018-11-17
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Tamara was working on a knowledge base for material reserves by involving in a MINEA-workshop and by analyzing bottom-up MFA of the built environment to realize a cross-context knowledge transfer.
Alex Maldonado
- HOME INSTITUTION: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona (Spain)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Margarida Quina
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2019-01-28 to 2019-02-08
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Evaluating the bloating properties by using heating microscope of Lightweight Aggregates (LWA) based on Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI) Bottom Ash and crop by-product.
Dr Josep Maria Chimenos
- HOME INSTITUTION: University of Barcelona, Spain
- HOST INSTITUTION: Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Margarida Quina
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2019-01-28 to 2019-02-08
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Heating microscope evaluation of the use of MSWI bottom ash as a precursor in the formulation of lightweight aggregates using residual biomass as bloating agents.
Prof Biljana Angjusheva
- HOME INSTITUTION: Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (fYR Macedonia)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) (Slovenia)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Vilma Ducman
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2019-02-06 to 2019-02-17
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Biljana conducted several experiments of characterization of clay and C&D waste and determination of the physical properties of the C&DW-clay based ceramics.
Ekaterina Korotenko
- HOME INSTITUTION: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management, TU Wien (Austria)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Florian Huber
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2019-02-04 to 2019-03-03
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Ekaterina conducted experiments on the application of density separation for MSWI bottom ash treatment. Thereby, mineral fractions with different properties and increased resource potential were generated.
Emilija Fidanchevski
- HOME INSTITUTION: Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Skopje (RN Macedonia)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Sabina Kramar
- WG: 2.1
- DATES: 2019-01-15 to 2019-01-28
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Emilija gained knowledge for utilization secondary raw materials (red mud) for synthesis of innovative binders i.e. sulfoaluminate cement clinkers.
Maud Lanau
- HOME INSTITUTION: SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Odense M (Denmark)
- HOST INSTITUTION: Research Unit Waste and Resource Management, Institute of Water Quality and Resource Management, TU Wien (Austria)
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Ulrich Kral
- WG: 4
- DATES: 2019-03-04 - 2019-03-29
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Kick start the development of a meta-data catalogue gathering detailed information on raw and processed data from the different research groups involved in urban material stock studies.
Helena Gomes
- HOME INSTITUTION: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Valerio Funari
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2019-03-29 to 2019-04-29
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Helena performed experiments on electrodialytic enhanced bioleaching of MSWI fly ash. She was involved in writing two co-authored publications and dissemination of the research findings and social awareness through the website www.theanthropictimes.com.
Carlo Cormio
- HOME INSTITUTION: SERENGEO Srl, Bologna (Italy)
- HOST INSTITUTION: CERENA - Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente - Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitectura e Georrecursos - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Teresa Carvalho
- WG: 2.1
- DATES: 2019-08-24 to 2019-09-02
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Carlo collected case studies to define the state-of-art about Extractive industries residues assessment. An approach, a tool and specific guidelines for case studies analysis were developed.
Ruichang Mao
- HOME INSTITUTION: University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark, Gang Liu
- HOST INSTITUTION: Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning, University of Louvain
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Daniela Perrotti
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2019-11-17 to 2019-12-07
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STST, Ruichang was working on modelling urban metabolism for urban sustainability in terms of the built environment stocks and ecosystem services, especially on the role of spatial planning, stakeholder perspectives, and policy framework.
Marta Alonso
- HOME INSTITUTION: Fundación ICAMyL, León, Spain
- HOST INSTITUTION: Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering of the Italian National Research Council (IGAG-CNR), Italy
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Daniela Guglietta
- WG: 2.1
- DATES: 2020-01-27 to 2020-01-31
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STMS, Marta collected and classified data from European projects related with MINEA. A classification criterion is developed for case studies in WG2.
Serena Giorgi
- HOME INSTITUTION: Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- HOST INSTITUTION: University of Southern Denmark
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Gang Liu
- WG: 1
- DATES: 2020-01-01 to 2020-01-31
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: During the STSM, Serena was working to identify barriers and drivers towards circular strategies of building materials/waste, within a life cycle sustainability perspective, collecting data through stakeholders interviews and policy framework analysis.
Beatriz Bandarra
- HOME INSTITUTION: University of Coimbra (Coimbra)
- HOST INSTITUTION: ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH
- HOST SUPERVISOR: Jörg Römbke
- WG: 3
- DATES: 2019-06-03 to 2019-07-02
- DESCRIPTION OF THE STSM PROJECT: Follow the link to read my personal STSM Experience.
