Newly Arrived Exchange Student from Brazil
News from 2016
Newly Arrived Exchange Student from Brazil
25 November, 2016 - Diego Correa Ramos is an exchange student that just arrived from Brazil. He is a PhD student of Science Forestry and is doing a project about charcoal use in silicon production. At NTNU there is more specialized knowledge about the silicon process than at his university back home, and he will stay here for 10 months to take advantage of that knowledge.
His university in Brazil, the Federal University of Viçosa, lies in the state of Minas Gerais in the southeast region of Brazil. With that it’s positioned right in the heart of the Brazilian charcoal industry.
Merete Tangstad, the leader of RD2, will be his supervisor. Considering her background of working with the silicon process, she will be able to give useful input when he looks at for example SiO reactivity of different charcoal and resistivity, and analyzes it’s influence in silicon processing.
He says that he hopes to grow technically with the team here, and that the interaction between two different sectors, such as the charcoal and the silicon processing sectors, is really important for development of innovative projects. One of crucial parts of his projects will be just that, sharing of information and knowledge.