Amir Nobahar (3A19-5673-BA9A)

Curriculum Vitae

Amir Nobahar

Amir Nobahar. Completed the Doutoramento in Ciências Biológicas in 2023/05/15 by Universidade do Algarve, Doutoramento in Ciências Biológicas in 2023/05/15 by Centro de Ciências do Mar, Master in Soil Biology and Biotechnology in 2016/03/04 by University of Tabriz and Bachelor in Soil Sciences in 2013/05/01 by Urmia University. Is Postdoc in Universidade de Aveiro CICECO. Published 8 articles in journals. Participated in 2 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Integration into Research Grant Fellow in 2 project(s) and Researcher in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Biotechnology, Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Biochemistry and Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Biotechnology with emphasis on Bioremediation. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: metal binding; biorecovery; plant extract; acid mine drainage; metal recovery; bioremediation; Copper extraction; copper precipitation; liquid-liquid extraction; metal bio-recovery; Biofertilizer; quality control; PGP properties; enumeration; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Amir Nobahar

Citation names

Nobahar, Amir

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3A19-5673-BA9A
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7401-9076
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wgc6MlUAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id: LRU-6767-2024

Email addresses

anobahar@ua.pt (Professional)
nobahar.amir@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone

918133391 (Personal)

Addresses

CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, room 29.1.37, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amir-Nobahar-2 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology
Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering
Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Persian (Mother tongue)
Azerbaijani (Mother tongue)
Turkish	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/09/01 - 2023/05/15 Concluded	Ciências Biológicas (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Bioquímica e Biotecnologia Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Innovative combination of chemical and biological strategies for the recovery of metals from metal-bearing wastewaters and leachates" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved unanimously, with highest Distinction and Honors
2013/09/01 - 2016/03/04 Concluded	Soil Biology and Biotechnology (Master) University of Tabriz, Iran "Efficiency of Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria in Buffered and Unbuffered Media and in Sterile Soil in Presence of Maize." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/01 - 2013/05/01 Concluded	Soil Sciences (Bachelor) Urmia University, Iran

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/15 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2023/11/30	Researcher (Research)	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/12/01 - 2022/06/30	Prospección en ambientes subterráneos de compuestos bioactivos microbianos con uso potencial para la medicina, agricultura y medio ambiente 0483_PROBIOMA_5_E CTM2015-2339 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	European Regional Development Fund Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/01 - 2026/01/31	Recovery and separation of platinum group metals and rare earth elements from spent automotive catalytic converters 2022.04478.PTDC 10.54499/2022.04478.PTDC Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/03 - 2023/12/31	Photorelease of pollutants and microplastics particles from plastic surfaces EXPL/CTA-AMB/1613/2021 10.54499/EXPL/CTA-AMB/1613/2021 Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2022/05/31	Innovative combination of chemical and biological strategies for the recovery of metals from metals bearing wastewaters and leachates PTDC/BTA-BTA/29251/2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Costa, Camila; Nobahar, Amir; Da Silva, J.P.. "Organic Contaminants Released Form Plastics". Paper presented in 9th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech'23), London, 2023. 10.11159/icepr23.139 Nobahar, Amir; Costa, Camila; Da Silva, J.P.. "Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Photolysis on surfaces". Paper presented in 18th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment, Venice, 2023. Published Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Nobahar, Amir; Costa, Maria Clara. "Valorização da água ácida de mina através da recuperação de metais.". Paper presented in 8ª Jornada Interdisciplinar da Mina de São Domingos: Minas, tecnologias e educação: convergências, Sao Domingos, 2021. Published
Conference paper	Nobahar, Amir; Costa, Maria Clara ; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Bejiga Melka, Alemu. "AliCy as Extractant to Remove Iron from Copper-Free Extreme AMD for Further Extraction of Zinc". Athens, 2021. Accepted Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Costa, Maria Clara ; Bejiga Melka, Alemu. "Solvent extraction to recover copper from extreme acid mine drainage". Paper presented in 14th International Mine Water Association, Wales, 2021. Accepted
Conference poster	N. Braga, Flavia; Nobahar, Amir; Sosa, Filipe; Schaeffer, Nicolas; Helena Passos; Coutinho, Joao A. P.. Corresponding author: Helena Passos. "Searching for new metal separation strategies for the recovery of PGM". Paper presented in 7th Edition of the Iberoamerican Meeting on Ionic Liquids (IMIL2024), Coimbra, Portugal, 2024. Nobahar, Amir; N. Braga, Flavia; Sosa, Filipe; Coutinho, Joao A. P.. "Innovative Bio-Based Adsorbents for Platinum Group Metals Recovery". 2024. Nobahar, Amir; N. Braga, Flavia; Sosa, Filipe; Schaeffer, Nicolas; Helena Passos; Coutinho, Joao A. P.. "Sustainable Solutions for Purification of Platinum Group Metals from Aluminum Salt Leachates". Paper presented in XIII Iberoamerican Conference on Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties for Process Design, 2024. Nobahar, Amir; Sosa, Filipe; Helena Passos; Coutinho, Joao A. P.. "Selective recovery of platinum group metals from HCl-based leachates using bio-based materials". Paper presented in 43rd Iberian adsorption meeting, 2024. N. Braga, Flavia; Nobahar, Amir; Sosa, Filipe; Schaeffer, Nicolas; Helena Passos; Coutinho, Joao A. P.. "Searching for new metal separation strategies for the recovery of PGM". Paper presented in 33rd European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics (ESAT 2024), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2024. Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. "Enrichment, isolation and characterization of acidophilic sulfate reducing bacteria from São Domingos mine". Paper presented in MIcrobiotec21 webconference - congress of microbiology and biotechnology 2021, 2021. Nobahar, Amir; Bejiga Melka, Alemu; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Lourenço, Joao; Costa, Maria Clara. "Recovery of Strategic Metals from Extreme Acid Mine Drainage by Combining Solvent Extraction Methods and Biological Strategies". 2021. Nobahar, Amir; Joana Rodrigues; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. "Metals recovery from extreme acid mine drainage using plants extracts". Paper presented in Encontro com a ciencia e tecnologia em Portugal, 2020.
Journal article	Nobahar, A.; Fitas, E. T.; Costa, M. C.; Carlier, J. D.. "Acid mine drainage bioremediation using bacteria enriched from the confluence zone between its flow and treated sewage". International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13762-024-06160-z. Published • 10.1007/s13762-024-06160-z Costa, Camila Q. V.; Nobahar, Amir; Egea-Corbacho, Agata; Jockusch, Steffen; Power, Deborah M.; Ramamurthy, Vaidhyanathan; Da Silva, José P.. "Photochemical Oxidation of Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastics Adsorbed on Sand and Silica Surfaces". Langmuir 40 41 (2024): 21476-21483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02281. Published • 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02281 Nobahar, Amir; Lourenço, João Paulo; Costa, Maria Clara; Carlier, Jorge Dias. "Printed Circuit Boards Leaching Followed by Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticle Clusters Using Plant Extracts". Waste and Biomass Valorization (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12649-023-02272-8. Published • 10.1007/s12649-023-02272-8 Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. "Recovery of catalytic metals from leaching solutions of spent automotive catalytic converters using plant extracts". Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 25 8 (2023): 2707-2726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10098-023-02523-1. 10.1007/s10098-023-02523-1 Nobahar, Amir; Melka, Alemu Bejiga; Marín-Beltrán, Isabel; Neves, Luiz; Costa, Maria Clara; Carlier, Jorge Dias. "Zinc Recovery from an Extreme Copper-Free Acid Mine Drainage: Studying the Prior Separation of Ferric Iron by Solvent Extraction using AliCy and/or Alkalinization". Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40831-022-00588-8. 10.1007/s40831-022-00588-8 Nobahar, Amir; Melka, Alemu Bejiga; Pusta, Alexandra; Lourenço, João Paulo; Carlier, Jorge Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. Corresponding author: Carlier, Jorge Dias. "A New Application of Solvent Extraction to Separate Copper from Extreme Acid Mine Drainage Producing Solutions for Electrochemical and Biological Recovery Processes". Mine Water and the Environment (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10230-022-00858-7. Published • 10.1007/s10230-022-00858-7 Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Dias; Miguel, Maria Graça; Costa, Maria Clara. "A review of plant metabolites with metal interaction capacity: a green approach for industrial applications". BioMetals (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-021-00315-y. Published • 10.1007/s10534-021-00315-y Ansari, Saeih; Khoshru, Bahman; Sarikhani, Mohammad Reza; Nobahar, Amir. "Characterization and Quality Assessment of Four Common Commercial Biofertilizers in Iran". Agricultural journal 16 1 (2021): https://docsdrive.com/?pdf=medwelljournals/aj/2021/1-8.pdf. Published Nobahar, Amir; Sarikhani, Mohammad Reza; Chalabianlou, Nastaran. "Buffering capacity affects phosphorous solubilization assays in rhizobacteria". Rhizosphere 4 (2017): 119-125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2017.10.002. Published • 10.1016/j.rhisph.2017.10.002
Thesis / Dissertation	Nobahar, Amir. "Innovative combination of chemical and biological strategies for the recovery of metals from metal-bearing wastewaters and leachates". PhD, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/19834.
Website	Helena Passos; Sosa, F. H. B.; Nobahar, Amir; N. Braga, Flavia. PlatILPlus. 2024. https://platilplus.wixsite.com/platilplus/research.

Intellectual property

Patent

Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. 2023. "Gold recovery from unimetallic and real gold-bearing leachate using Rubus idaeus hydro-alcoholic extract". Portugal.
Pending

Other

Other output

The pilot station at São domingos mine: A combination of solvent extraction and bioremediation for copper recovery from extreme acid mine drainage. Development of a pilot-scale process based on findings from doctoral studies for AMD treatment and simultaneous metal recovery. By combining solvent extraction for copper recovery from AMD, an acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacterial consortium for AMD treatment, and biogenic sulfide generation, this study achieved three key objectives.. 2022. Nobahar, Amir; Carlier, Jorge Daniel Dias; Costa, Maria Clara. English version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcw6MkuWL4 Portuguese version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gjUYu0gmRY.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/09/02	AliCy as Extractant to Remove Iron from Copper-Free Extreme AMD for Further Extraction of Zinc.	Global NEST (Athens, Greece)
2021/06/16	Solvent extraction to recover copper from extreme acid mine drainage.	International Mine Water Association Conference 2021 Natural Recourses Wales (NRW) (Wales, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/07/03 - Current	In July 2023, I contributed to the organization of the ChIR Symposium - International Symposium on Chemical Innovation and Regulation at the University of Algarve as supporting member. (2023/07/03) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2019/06/03 - 2019/06/04	Involvement in organizing "From Molecules to Crystals and Beyond" workshop (2019/06/03) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021/07/14 - 2021/07/16	Most of strategic metals are obtained through mining of finite primary sources which are rapidly decreasing, and according to estimations of supply risk some industries will struggle to maintain supplies in the next twenty to thirty years. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in exploring the potential of metals’ recycling from secondary sources. Conference	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/11/02 - 2020/11/04	O Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal terá a sua próxima edição nos dias 3 e 4 de Novembro de 2020. Esta edição do encontro anual de investigadores portugueses visa promover um amplo debate sobre os principais tópicos e desafios da agenda científica além do mundo da investigação científica. O objetivo principal do encontro é estimular não apenas a participação, mas também a interação entre investigadores, o setor empresarial e o público em geral. Conference	Encontro Ciência 2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Ciência Viva, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2014/09/01 - 2018/06/30	Advanced English language	(Laurea)

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2023/09/01 - 2023/12/31	Photodegradation and pyrolysis products of plastics	Abdelrahman Elrawy
2023/06/01 - 2023/12/31	Evaluation of Photochemical Oxidation products of Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastics	Camila Q. V. Costa
2023/03/01 - 2023/12/31	Photodegradation product of polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene	Maria Carolina Melo de Sousa
2023/05/01 - 2023/09/01	Chemical composition and ecotoxicity assessment of leachate of car tire rubber particlea on gamete quality of the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis	Ilaria Savino
2022 - 2022/09/01	Isolation of acidophilic sulfate reducing bacteria from sediments of Sao Domingos mining area	Eduarto T. Fitas
2021/01/31 - 2022	Metals separation and recovery from acid mine drainage by pH adjustment studies	Luiz Neves
2018/10/01 - 2019/09/01	Cupper and zinc recovery through solvent extraction	Alemu Melka
2019/01/01 - 2019/06/30	Metals recovery from extreme acid mine drainage using plants extracts	Joana Rodrigues