IDE assistant professor Joana Soares de Oliveira Martins’ research project, “Can Ancient Cyanobacteria Save Our Planet?”, has received a €400,000 grant within the NWO's Open Competition Domain Science-M programme.
About the research project
We are living in a critical decade for climate action, with the current values of CO2 in the atmosphere reaching unprecedent levels. Inspired by the needs to tackle this problem, scientists are developing Engineering Living Materials (ELMs). Those integrate living microorganisms, e.g., photosynthetic cyanobacteria, that can capture CO2 contributing to more sustainable practices. Still, the potential to develop ELMs with high carbon capture efficiency remains to be explored. In this project, the processes that involve CO2 absorption in cyanobacteria will be systematically explored for the unprecedent development of ELMs with high carbon capture efficiency.
In this project, the processes that involve CO2 absorption in cyanobacteria will be systematically explored for the unprecedent development of ELMs with high carbon capture efficiency.
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Joana Soares de Oliveira Martins, Assistant Professor
The NWO Domain Board Science has awarded twenty-one grant applications in the Open Competition Domain Science-M programme. M-grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental research and/or studies involving matters of scientific urgency.
