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A solution that makes material inspection faster, more efficient and less invasive, with potential applications in areas like recycling, mining, cultural heritage and industrial quality control, has been recognised with the Best Oral Presentation Award at the first edition of IBEROLIBS. But the achievements of INESC TEC’s Photonics team did not stop there; at this international scientific congress, the team also received the Best Poster Award for presenting a new method to create interactive digital representations of cultural heritage objects with information on their elemental composition.
05th August 2026
A hydrogen or methane leak may be invisible, but a new generation of sensors developed by INESC TEC will not let it go undetected. Over two days, researchers from the Institute installed and tested a gas monitoring technology at PRF's facilities in Leiria. The technology was developed as part of the Alliance for the Energy Transition (ATE), a project funded through Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).
20th July 2026
INESC TEC researchers won three scientific awards and one photography prize at the International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP2026). But their participation went beyond the awards: Orlando Frazão was elected Vice-President of the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics (SPOF), while Susana Silva became President of the organisation's Supervisory Board; Orlando Frazão was also appointed President of the Portuguese Territorial Committee for Optics.
20th July 2026
An INESC TEC researcher has received an award at a conference dedicated to Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS); his research uses machine learning to identify the most significant features and patterns in spectral data, extracting the information that matters most for analysis.
13th July 2026
Have you ever tried a burger made from seaweed? Or nuggets produced from protein grown in circular systems? The role of algae in food production will become increasingly relevant, and it all begins with the reuse of water from fish farming — as has been demonstrated in the INNOAQUA project.
16th June 2026