Niklas Jantunen, Master of Science in Technology, will defend his doctoral dissertation in the field of Chemical Engineering at LUT on 20th of January at 10 am, Auditorium 2 of LUT Lahti campus in a hybrid event. His dissertation is titled "Development of liquid–liquid extraction processes for concentrated hydrometallurgical solutions".

Professor Kathryn Sole, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Professor Mark Hlawitschka, Johannes Kepler University, Austria, will act as opponents. Docent Sami Virolainen of LUT University will act as custos.

Link to follow the event remotely:  https://lut.zoom.us/j/63922713312

The dissertation has been published in the Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis research series number 1066 of the university. ISBN 978-952-335-913-0, ISBN 978-952-335-914-7 (PDF), ISSN 1456-4491.