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Danilo Bertagna Silva graduated in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (Brazil) in 2015. During his undergraduate period, he spent a year at the University of Hull (UK) where he also worked on the obtainment of biofuels via solar energy and vegetable oils. Danilo had professional internship experiences in the Membrane Innovation Centre (Czech Republic) as an operator and evaluator of an electrodialysis stack for dye purification, and also as a wine-making apprentice engineer at the Guaspari winery (Brazil). In 2018 he got his M.Sc. degree from the Erasmus Mundus joint program “Chemical Innovation and Regulation” in the University of Barcelona (Spain) and wrote his thesis “UV Light-Assisted Ozonation For Micropollutant Removal in Domestic Wastewaters”. In 2019 Danilo was hired as a predoctoral researcher by the NOWELTIES project, an Innovative Training Network part of the framework of EU Horizon 2020’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. His research focused on the development, evaluation and optimization of UV-LED based photolysis and photocatalysis for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from water. During the project, he spent 3 years in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb (Croatia) and 6 months in the Catalan Institute for Water Research (Girona, Spain). In 2022, Danilo was awarded with a PhD degree in Environmental Chemistry. In 2023 he worked for a brief period at the National Institute of Chemistry (Slovenia) as a postdoctoral researcher investigating the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol. In 2024 Danilo was granted the EU Horizon ERA postdoctoral fellowship for the project REALIMP: “Real-time imaging and photocatalysis mediated biodegradability of microplastics in a continuous flow system”, with the support of the Instituto Superior Tecnico of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Danilo Bertagna Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Danilo
  • Bertagna Silva, D.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0915-1563-1C46
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4413-7108

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Serbo-Croatian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/01 - 2022/07/21
Concluded
Application of UV-LEDs AOPs for the efficient removal of OMPs from wastewater. (Doctor of Philosophy)
Sveucili¿te u Zagrebu Fakultet kemijskog in¿enjerstva i tehnologije, Croatia
2016/10/01 - 2018/10/01
Concluded
Chemical Innovation and Regulation (Master Universitario)
Universitat de Barcelona Departament d'Enginyeria Química i Química Analítica, Spain
2010/03/01 - 2015/12/01
Concluded
Engenharia Química (Bachelor)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/03/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal
2023/05/01 - 2023/11/01 Postdoc (Research) Kemijski in¿titut, Slovenia
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Danilo Bertagna Silva; Gianluigi Buttiglieri; Maria José Farré; Sandra Babic. "Transformation products of contaminants of emerging concern in water by UV-based processes". Water Practice & Technology (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2023.129.
    10.2166/wpt.2023.129
  2. Danilo Bertagna Silva; Bertagna Silva, D.; Gianluigi Buttiglieri; Bruna Babic; Danijela Ašperger; Sandra Babic. "Performance of TiO2/UV-LED-Based Processes for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals: Effect of Matrix Composition and Process Variables". Nanomaterials 12 2 (2022): 295-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12020295.
    10.3390/nano12020295
  3. Danilo Bertagna Silva; Bertagna Silva, D.; Gianluigi Buttiglieri; Tomislav Babic; Lidija Curkovic; Sandra Babic. "Impact of UV-LED photoreactor design on the degradation of contaminants of emerging concern". Process Safety and Environmental Protection 153 (2021): 94-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2021.07.015.
    10.1016/j.psep.2021.07.015
  4. Danilo Bertagna Silva; Gianluigi Buttiglieri; Sandra Babic. "State-of-the-art and current challenges for TiO2/UV-LED photocatalytic degradation of emerging organic micropollutants". Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28 1 (2021): 103-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11125-z.
    10.1007/s11356-020-11125-z
  5. Bertagna Silva, D.; Cruz-Alcalde, A.; Sans, C.; Giménez, J.; Esplugas, S.. "Performance and kinetic modelling of photolytic and photocatalytic ozonation for enhanced micropollutants removal in municipal wastewaters". Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 249 (2019): 211-217. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062413574&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.02.072