Nicolas Schaeffer

About

Nicolas Schaeffer obtained his MSc degree in Environmental Engineering in 2012. After being awarded with an Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) PhD scholarship, he completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College in 2017. Between March of 2017 and December of 2019, he was a post-doctoral researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro (UA) within the scope of an international ERA-MIN project on NiMH battery recycling, before being awarded a NormaTransitoria grant as a Junior Researcher from 2019 to 2024 at the same institution.

Currently, N. Schaeffer is an Auxiliary Researcher at CICECO investigating the development, characterization, and understanding of alternative solvents for more sustainable hydrometallurgical processes using a mixed experimental and computational approach. He published 61 articles in international peer reviewed multidisciplinary journals (h-index 22, 1859 total citations, Web of Science 05/03/2026), including 19 as corresponding author and 16 as first author. He is presently involved in the supervision of 3 Junior Researchers and 5 PhD students. He is a team member in 3 ongoing R&D projects, including 1 as work package leader (REVITALISE – grant agreement 101137585), and the recipient of an Horizon ERC Starting grant 2023 (DESignSX – grant agreement 101116461).

Employment

• University of Aveiro Assistant Researcher
  2024 - Present
• Universidade de Aveiro CICECO Junior Researcher
  2019 - 2024
• Universidade de Aveiro CICECO Postdoctoral Researcher
  2017 - 2018

Education

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