Doctoral Student Reynald Ponte won Best Poster Award at conference in Basel

07.05.2025

Reynald Ponte, a doctoral student at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, received the Best Poster Award in the MSc/PhD student category at the International Sustainable Resource Recovery Strategies Toward Zero Waste (FULLRECO4US) conference, held in Basel, Switzerland from 5–7 May 2025.

Reynald participated in the conference with a poster titled “Utilization of liquid by-products from hydrothermal carbonization for the production of value-added products: a combined process using purple phototrophic bacteria and anaerobic digestion” and won the Best Poster Award in the Msc/PhD Student category.

Reynald is a doctoral student in the Chair of Energy Application Engineering, Institute of Forestry and Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Lisandra Meneses and the co-supervision of Prof. Larysa Khomenkova from the V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics & National University "Kyiv Mohyla academy" in Ukraine and Dr. Durga Parajuli from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. 

Liis Saar

Communications Manager of Engineering

Institute of Forestry and Engineering

Administration of the Institute of Forestry and Engineering

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