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Patrícia Isabel Antunes Henriques completed her Master's degree in Chemical Engineering in 2017 at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. In 2018, she began her research career as a Research Fellow in the InPactus project – Innovative Products and Technologies from Eucalyptus. Within this project, she pursued a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, concluded in 2024. She is currently an Invited Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, where she teaches in the areas of general and applied chemistry, separation methods, biotechnological processes, thermodynamics, chemical analysis, and instrumental methods. She has published 7 articles in specialized journals, holds 1 national patent, and has 3 provisional patent applications. She has participated in 4 international conferences, one of which awarded her the TECNICELPA 2021 Prize for Best Oral Presentation. Her research focuses on the extraction and purification of bioactive compounds, and their physicochemical characterization, membrane separation processes, and centrifugal membrane filters.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patrícia Isabel Antunes Henriques

Citation names

  • Henriques, Patrícia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7214-FCF3-4C01
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9472-9550

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/01/31 - 2024/06/04
Concluded
 Engenharia Química (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"FROM PULP TO PREBIOTICS: Xylooligosaccharides Production from Eucalyptus Bleached Kraft Pulp and Enhanced Purification using a Novel High-Throughput Membrane Screening Technique" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/11/22
Concluded
 Mestrado em Engenharia Química (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Estabilização Tartárica de Vinhos por Electrodiálise: Redução do consumo de água e desenvolvimento de um novo teste para a determinação do grau de desionização a impor na electrodiálise (20 valores)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2015/07
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Química (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Santarém Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/07 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Santarém Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal
2020/02 - 2023/12 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/07 - 2021/01 Research Fellow in the InPactus Project, a partnership between IST and The Navigator Company Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/07 Collaborator in a Research Project in the Field of Biorefineries Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/01 - 2018/03 Research Intern: Establishment of an HPLC Analysis Protocol for Macromolecules Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/11 Research Intern in the Scope of the Master's Thesis Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016/02 - 2016/02 Collaborator in the 2016 Open Laboratories organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014/10 - 2015/03 Member of the Organizing Committee of the XXVIII Chemical Engineering Conference at Instituto Superior Técnico, in the Advertising Department Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014/09 - 2014/09 Extracurricular Internship – Biochemical Techniques in the Context of Clinical Analysis Fernanda Galo, Laboratório de Análises Clínicas, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/07 - 2021/01 InPactus - Innovative Products and Technologies from Eucalyptus
21874
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal
European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Henriques, Patrícia. "Hardwood Kraft Pulp for the Production of Prebiotics". Paper presented in CIADICYP 2022 Iberoamerican Congress on Pulp and Paper Research, Girona, 2022.
    Published
  2. Henriques, Patrícia. "Production of Prebiotics using Bleached Kfrat Pulp from Eucalyptus Globulus (Tecnicelpa Award 2021)". Paper presented in XXV TECNICELPA - Conferência Internacional da Floresta, Pasta e Papel XI CIADICYP 2021 9, 10, 11, 12 março 2021 ¿ WebConference, Portugal, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Henriques, Patrícia. "A new test to measure the degree of deionization required for tartaric stability of wines by electrodialysis". Paper presented in ChemPor 2018, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Patrícia Henriques; Ana Maria Brites Alves; Vítor Geraldes. "Ortho-centrifugal membrane filter for scaled-down high-throughput screening of nanofiltration membranes". Separation and Purification Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2025.134458.
    10.1016/j.seppur.2025.134458
  2. Patrícia Henriques; S¿ren Hams; Ana Maria Brites Alves; Maria Diná Afonso; Vítor Geraldes. "Quick-Thread Centrifugal Membrane Filter (QuT-CMF) for concentrating small-volume samples by nanofiltration/reverse osmosis". Separation and Purification Technology (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2025.132323.
    10.1016/j.seppur.2025.132323
  3. Geraldes, Vítor; Henriques, Patrícia; Afonso, Maria Diná; Alves, Ana Maria; Pires, Rita F.; Faria, Mónica; Van der Bruggen, Bart; Rodrigues, Miguel. "Designing Centrifugal Membrane Filters with uniform-pressure for UF/NF/RO separations". Journal of Membrane Science 702 (2024): 122752. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122752.
    10.1016/j.memsci.2024.122752
  4. Henriques, Patrícia I. A.; Serrano, Maria de Lurdes S.; de Sousa, António P. Mendes; Alves, Ana Maria F. Brites. "Green Process for Xylooligosaccharides Production using an Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp". Journal of Polymers and the Environment 31 5 (2022): 2005-2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10924-022-02728-3.
    10.1007/s10924-022-02728-3
  5. Patrícia I. A. Henriques; Ana Maria F. Brites Alves; Maria de Lurdes S. Serrano; Sebastião S. Alves. "Kinetic Modeling of Xylooligosaccharides Production by Acid Hydrolysis of an Eucalyptus globulus Pulp Extract". Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2021): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02900.
    10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02900
  6. Henriques, Patrícia; Martinho, Marta; Serrano, Maria de Lurdes; Mendes de Sousa, António P.; Brites Alves, Ana Maria. "Xylooligosaccharides production by acid hydrolysis of an alkaline extraction filtrate from Eucalyptus globulus bleached kraft pulp". Industrial Crops and Products 159 (2021): 113066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.113066.
    10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.113066
  7. Henriques, Patrícia; Brites Alves, Ana Maria; Rodrigues, Miguel; Geraldes, Vítor. "Controlled freeze-thawing test to determine the degree of deionization required for tartaric stabilization of wines by electrodialysis". Food Chemistry 278 (2019): 84-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.11.043.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.11.043
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "FROM PULP TO PREBIOTICS: Xylooligosaccharides Production from Eucalyptus Bleached Kraft Pulp and Enhanced Purification using a Novel High-Throughput Membrane Screening Technique". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2024.
  2. Henriques, Patrícia. "Estabilização Tartárica de Vinhos por Electrodiálise: Redução do consumo de água e desenvolvimento de um novo teste para a determinação do grau de desionização a impor na electrodiálise". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2017.

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Henriques, Patrícia; Alves, Ana Maria; Serrano, Maria de Lurdes; Mendes de Sousa, António P.. 2022. "Processo de Produção de Xilooligossacarídeos (XOS) a partir do Filtrado Alcalino de Pasta Kraft de Eucalyptus Globulus (PT116165)".
    Granted/Issued
Provisional application for patent
  1. 2023. "Turbo-Centrifugal Filtration Devices and Method for Membrane Characterization, Sample Concentration or Purification by Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration, and Reverse Osmosis".
    Protected
  2. 2023. "Turbo-Centrifugal Filtration Devices and Method for High-Performance Liquid Filtration Purification by Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis.".
    Protected
  3. 2022. "Processo de Produção de Xilooligossacarídeos a partir de Pasta Celulósica Kraft Branqueada por Hidrólise Enzimática em Meio Aquoso".
    Protected
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/02/27 - Current Workshop “Sensory analysis of food – Training for tasters” (2h) by Drª Maria Gabriela Lima e Drª Ana Teresa Ribeiro, III CIEQV’s Internacional Congress, Setúbal, Portugal
2022/07/12 - Current Course "Mental Health in Higher Education: What We Should Be Aware of" (2h30) by Dr. Isabel Gonçalves
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/03/20 - 2025/05/08 Formação em Língua Gestual Portuguesa – Nível 1 (8h) by Telmo Fernandes
2021/02/18 - 2021/02/23 Course “Teaching Stem Students – Transformation Guide for Teaching Assistants 7th Edition” (8h) by Drª Isabel Gonçalves
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/03/27 - 2020/04/17 Course in Chromatography: GC and HPLC (Total 16h) by Rafael Chust, Chromatography Specialist.
Other
 Course in Chromatography:
2020/02/19 - 2020/02/19 Oral Presentation at the Quarterly Biorefinery Meeting within the InPactus Project (Reporting Period: October 2019 - February 2020)
Seminar
RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal
2019/10/23 - 2019/10/23 Oral Presentation at the Quarterly Biorefinery Meeting within the InPactus Project (Reporting Period: July - October 2019)
Seminar
RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/06 Bioactive Compounds From Pulp and Paper Industry Biomass (Poster)
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisíca e Engenharia de Materiais Avançados, Portugal
2019/05/08 - 2019/05/08 Oral Presentation at the Quarterly Biorefinery Meeting within the InPactus Project (Reporting Period: February - May 2019)
Seminar
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Portugal
2019/02/20 - 2019/02/20 Oral Presentation at the Quarterly Biorefinery Meeting within the InPactus Project (Reporting Period: November 2018 - February 2019)
Seminar
RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal
2018/11/20 - 2018/11/20 Oral Presentation at the Quarterly Biorefinery Meeting within the InPactus Project (Reporting Period: July – November 2018)
Seminar
RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/02 Interview published in My Planet magazine, Issue No. 12, p. 54 (2023): "A New Business Segment from Pulp"
Distinctions

Award

2021 TECNICELPA Award (Best Oral Presentation)