Fionn Ferreira
Fionn Ferreira is an Irish inventor, chemistry student and Forbes 30 under 30 listee from the town of Ballydehob. He is best known for his invention of a method to remove microplastic particles from water using a natural Ferrofluid mixture.[1][2]
Early Life[edit]
Fionn Ferreira went to St James' primary school in Durrus and subsequently to Schull community college in Schull, Ireland graduating in 2019.[3]
Fionn Ferreira spent most of his childhood Kayaking the coasts of remote Ireland with his dog India, Fionn noticed an increasing amount of plastic washing up on the coastline. Fionn created a methodology to quantify and collect plastic pollution, with a focus on microplastics. Fionn built several inventions using LEGOs, bits of wood and some microcontrollers to test for these microplastics.[4]
He entered the national science fair of Ireland three times with different science projects: Let Sanils do the cleaning, An investigation into the antioxidant concentration of different berries using the Briggs-Rauscher reaction in conjucntion with a photometer and An investigation into the removal of microplastics from water using ferrofluids.[5]
Microplastic Removal Technology[edit]
Fionn Ferreira designed and tested a method to remove microplastics from water. Following many failed attempts he made a device which uses a magnet-based method to remove the particles from water with extraction rates of 87% (+/- 1.1%)[6]. The highest extraction rates observed in Fionn's experiments were for polyesters [6]. He first exhibeted the project at the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2018 where Fionn was awarded the Intel award, best in category, Intellectual Ventures award and a first place award[7]. Fionn subsequently exhibited at ISEF 2018 winning the 1st place American Chemical Society award, 2nd place award in Chemistry, 1st place Drug Chemical and associated technologies, scholarship to the Univeristy of Arizona and a certificate of honourable mention by the American Statistical Association. [6]
In 2019, Ferreira exhibited at the 2019 Google Science Fair winning the global grand prize award of $50,000.[7]
Career[edit]
In Fall 2019 Fionn started a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands which he is currently attending.[8]
He has spoken at events including[9]:
- 2020 World Economic Forum
- 2019 Global Plastic health summit
- 2020 Smithsonian Institution Earth optimism summit
- 2020 GreenTech Festival Berlin
- 2021 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ISEF
- 2021 Young Plastic Pollution challenge
- 2021 And Leuven conference
In 2020, Fionn founded his business focuses on microplastic removal technology[10]
In 2020 and 2021 Fionn's work was featured by the global campaign by Hewlett-Packard: 'For every dream'.[11]
In 2021 Fionn was named a National Geographic Society young explorer and has been working on a new platform for youth in the space of invention with the help of the funding from the society.[12]
In 2021 Fionn Ferreira was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 listee in the Science and Healthcare category.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Bowers, Shauna. "Irish teenager wins Google science award for microplastics project". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Fionn Ferreira". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Quann, Jack. "Cork student wins Google Science Fair in California". Newstalk. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ "Fionn wins again – on home soil". The Southern Star. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Tue; Aug, 13; 2019 - 20:46 (2019-08-13). "One of world's top young scientists among Cork students collecting results". echo live. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Full Abstract". abstracts.societyforscience.org. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nace, Trevor. "Irish Teen Wins 2019 Google Science Fair For Removing Microplastics From Water". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Boomsma, Christien (2019-09-01). "The boy wonder who will save us from plastic". Ukrant.nl. Retrieved 2021-05-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Fleming, Sean (2020-01-17). "Meet the teen science star using magnetic liquid to remove microplastics from water". World Economic Forum. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Fionn Ferreira | and& 2021". www.andleuven.com. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ "HP's Best - Premium Quality, High Performance Laptops for 2020". www8.hp.com. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ↑ Society, National Geographic (2020-11-20). "The Ocean Plastics Pollution Solutions Contest". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
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