24.11.2025
Dr.techn. Rafaela Greil was awarded the prestigious VDI Prize by the Association of German Engineers (“Verband der Deutschen Ingenieure”) for her dissertation with the title “From Batch to Continuous: Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Lithium and Cobalt from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries in the Taylor-Couette Disc Contactor”. During the award ceremony, she also gave a keynote presentation in which she presented the continuously operated recycling process she developed.