Dr Elsa Antunes is an early career academic who obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from JCU in 2017, and is now a Mechanical Engineering Lecturer. She is currently focused in materials engineering, such as biomedical implants, transparent ceramics, biomass pyrolysis and surface functionality of biochar through different modification techniques for water purification, resource recovery and desalination. Elsa was awarded Reperio Innovation Award in 2018.
https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/elsa.antunes1/