The Christo Balarew Award for an Outstanding Young Scientist 2025 has been awarded by the IUPAC Analytical Division Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data (SSED) to Dr. Mónia A. R. Martíns.
Dr. Martíns obtained her European PhD in Chemical Engineering from CICECO, University of Aveiro (Portugal). During her doctoral studies, she completed two international research internships, at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and at UNICAMP in Campinas (Brazil). Her research focused on novel separation processes involving terpenes, ionic liquids, and eutectic mixtures, as well as on their environmental distribution.
Dr. Martíns has built an impressive professional track record, with research positions at the University of Porto, CICECO, Hovione, and the Polish Academy of Sciences. In addition, she has undertaken research internships in the Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, and India. Her scientific interests demonstrate both breadth and depth, and she has made significant contributions to solubility and equilibrium studies. Notably, she has compiled comprehensive solubility datasets for a wide range of complex systems, including ionic liquids, terpenes, phenolic acids, and benzimidazole derivatives. She has also developed and applied novel experimental methodologies, enabling high-precision solubility measurements across diverse compound classes and temperature ranges. Furthermore, she has employed predictive models to assess the distribution of compounds in environmental compartments, highlighting the interdisciplinary relevance of her work.
Dr. Martíns is currently a researcher at CIMO, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, where she continues to focus on solubility and chemical equilibria. She is the author of 52 peer-reviewed articles in journals indexed by the Web of Science, which have collectively received more than 3,500 citations, resulting in an h-index of 23.
In recognition of these achievements, the SSED has selected Dr. Mónia A. R. Martíns as the recipient of the Christo Balarew Award 2025.
The Award will be presented at the 22nd ISSP in Bulgaria in August 2026.
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The Christo Balarew Award was established in 2023 by Prof. Christo Balarew, a Bulgarian professor of inorganic chemistry at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria), and a dedicated supporter of the Solubility Data Project with long-standing involvement in IUPAC activities. The award is administered by the IUPAC Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data and is presented annually to recognize a promising young scientist working in the fields of solubility and/or chemical equilibria.