Five new PhDs, under the MIT Portugal, have graduated in the fields of Sustainable Energy Systems (Patrícia Baptista), Bioengineering (Eunice Costa, Daniela Coutinho and Ana Platzgummer) and Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (Helena Fernandez). November couldn’t have started in a better way for Patrícia Baptista and MIT Portugal. On November 4th, Patrícia successfully discussed her thesis in Sustainable Energy Systems: Evaluation of the impact of new vehicle and fuel technologies in the Portuguese road transportation sector. Patrícia Baptista studied the environmental impacts that may result from a large scale deployment of electric vehicles and was supervised by Prof. Tiago Farias (IST) and co-Supervised by Dr. Carla Silva (IST) and Prof. John Heywood (MIT). 
On the Bioengineering field, three more students have been awarded with a PhD degree: Eunice Costa, Daniela Coutinho and Ana Platzgummer. At December 5th, Eunice Costa, PhD student at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), discussed the thesis Bioactive Beads for Local Sensing of Proteases in 3D Engineered Tissues. Eunice was supervised by Ana Aguiar Ricardo (FCT-UNL) and Paula T Hammond (MIT). 
Also in November, Daniela Coutinho graduated at Universidade do Minho (UM) with the thesis Micro/nano-scale strategies for engineering in vitro the cellular microenvironment using biodegradable biomaterials developed under supervision of Nuno Neves (UM), Manuela Gomes (UM) and Ali Khademhosseini (MIT). 
More recently it was Ana Platzgummer’ turn, she graduates at Instituto Superior Técnico on December 15th. Ana’s thesis Bioreactor culture systems for the expansion of mouse embryonic stem cells was supervised by Joaquim Manuel Sampaio Cabral and co-supervised by Cláudia Alexandra Martins Lobato da Silva and Maria Margarida Fonseca R. Diogo. On December 9th, Helena Fernandez was also awarded with a PhD degree by Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho (EEUM) with the thesis Remote vital signs monitoring based on wireless sensor networks. Her PhD work on the field of Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing has been supervised by José Higino Correia (UM), Ricardo Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave) and José Afonso (UM) 
Congratulations to all of them and wishes of success. | 
