Dr Eng. Dominika Sobotka from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology received the award for the best doctoral dissertation defended in 2018 in the field of natural, engineering and technical sciences. Every year, the prizes are awarded by the Baltic University Program.
The subject of the awarded laureate’s doctoral thesis is “Research on the effectiveness of nitrogen removal from wastewater in a sequential reactor with granular anammox sludge”. The use of this type of technology would reduce the costs of wastewater treatment associated with aeration.
The Baltic University Program is an international academic network that brings together 220 universities from 14 countries in the Baltic Sea region. It is currently one of the largest university networks in the world. Every year, BUP awards the author of a doctoral dissertation defended at one of the member universities. The main goal of the BUP program is to support high-quality research promoting sustainable development.
