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Patrícia Leitão. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente in 2009/07/03 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Doutoramento in Engenharia do Ambiente in 2017/02/27 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia and Licenciatura in Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente in 2007/12/26 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências. Is Sócia e administradora financeira in Proposals & Advices, Lda and Técnico Superior in Proposals & Advices, Lda. Published 7 articles in journals. Organized 1 event(s). Participated in 15 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Pos-doctoral Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Engineering with emphasis on Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Engineering with emphasis on Mining and Mineral Processing, Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Biotechnology with emphasis on Bioremediation and Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Environmental Biotechnology with emphasis on Environmental Biotechnology. In their professional activities interacted with 22 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patrícia Leitão

Citation names

  • Leitão, Patrícia
  • Leitão, P.
  • Patrícia Leitão
  • Patrícia O. Leitão

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D915-8A63-26A3
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8195-7469

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Environmental Engineering
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Mining and Mineral Processing
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Bioremediation
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Environmental Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/01/07 - 2019/01/21
Concluded
 50 hours training of Transport Driver's Certificate for Electronic Platforms (Uber, etc) (Outros)
Formação Saraiva, Portugal
 Aprovada
2017/03/13 - 2019/01/12
Concluded
 Application of different tecnologies for the recovery of lithium and tungsten from skarn, greisen and pegmatite (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Mining and environmental engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/02/01 - 2017/02/27
Concluded
 Engenharia do Ambiente (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Microbial bioelectrochemical remediation of chlorinated organics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2012/01/23 - 2012/03/23
Concluded
 140 hours Specialized Professional Training: Agricultural Company Management - Investment Planning, Control and Analysis (Outros)
Praxicenter- formação e consultoria, Portugal
 17
2011/10/27 - 2011/11/25
Concluded
 36 hours Continuous Training: Audits to integrated quality, environment and safety management systems (Outros)
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
 Aprovado
2011/06/29 - 2011/07/07
Concluded
 28 hours Professional Training Update / Improvement: Practical solutions on how to implement Quality Management systems (Outros)
Associação Empresarial de Portugal, Portugal
 Aprovado
2008/09/01 - 2009/07/03
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Desenvolvimento de um sistema sensor para a determinação do enchimento de ecopontos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2008/11/27 - 2009/02/12
Concluded
 329 hours Professional Training: Creating self-employment (level IV) (Outros)
Associação Nacional das Empresárias, Portugal
 Muito Bom
2007/12/26
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
2007/08/01 - 2007/08/15
Concluded
 162 hours Training: Itinerant Sea University - The Mediterranean a meeting place for cultures (Outros)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Escola Naval, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2003
Concluded
 Environmental Quality (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Associação para a Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica, Portugal
 16
2001/09/03 - 2002/12/31
Concluded
 1800 hours Professional Training Course Technological Specialization level IV: Specialization in Environmental Quality (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Environmental Quality
Associação para a Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - 2018/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - Current Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Proposals & Advices, Lda, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2011/12/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Metro do Porto, S. A. , Portugal
2009/07/01 - 2010/06/30 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Metro do Porto, S. A. , Portugal
1998/06/01 - 1999/08/31 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Grupo Ibersol, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/04/01 - Current Financial manager and partner Proposals & Advices, Lda, Portugal
2017/03/13 - 2019/01/12 Post-Doc, European research project: Flexible And Mobile Economic processing technologies (FAME). Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2013/01/31 Tutor Trabalhador em nome individual, Portugal
2010/12/06 - 2011/12/05 Environmental, Quality, Health and Safety Manager Metro do Porto, S. A. , Portugal
2009/07/20 - 2010/07/19 Environmental, Quality, Health and Safety Manager trainee Metro do Porto, S. A. , Portugal
2001/09/01 - 2009/07/15 Tutor Trabalhador em nome individual, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013/02 - 2017/01 Microbial Bioelectrochemical Remediation of Chlorinated Organics
SFRH/BD/87312/2012
 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/03/13 - 2019/01/12 Flexible and Mobile Economic Processing Technologies
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/641650/EU
Post-doc Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Leitão, Patrícia. "CAtalyzed Reporter Deposition Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (CARD-FISH) for Complex Environmental Samples". In Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) for Microbial Cells Methods and Concepts. 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-1115-9_9
Journal article
  1. Patrícia Leitão; Matteo Tucci; Carolina Cruz Viggi; Henri Nouws; Anthony S. Danko; Federico Aulenta. "Natural Magnetite Minerals Enhance 1,2-Dichloroethane Reductive Dechlorination". Minerals (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min12070816.
    10.3390/min12070816
  2. Leitão, P.; Futuro, A.; Vila, C.; Dinis, L.; Danko, A.; Fiúza, A.. "Direct Pressure Alkaline Leaching of Scheelite Ores and Concentrates". Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85069505911&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s42461-019-00109-4
  3. Leitão, P.; Aulenta, F.; Rossetti, S.; Nouws, H.P.A.; Danko, A.S.. "Impact of magnetite nanoparticles on the syntrophic dechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane". Science of the Total Environment 624 (2018): 17-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85037696435&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.110
  4. Leitão, P.; Nouws, H.; Danko, A.S.; Aulenta, F.. "Bioelectrochemical Dechlorination of 1,2-DCA with an AQDS-Functionalized Cathode Serving as Electron Donor". Fuel Cells 17 5 (2017): 612-617. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85020452222&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/fuce.201700045
  5. Leitão, P.; Rossetti, S.; Danko, A.S.; Nouws, H.; Aulenta, F.. "Enrichment of Dehalococcoides mccartyi spp. from a municipal activated sludge during AQDS-mediated bioelectrochemical dechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane to ethene". Bioresource Technology 214 (2016): 426-431. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84964905941&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.129
  6. Leitão, P.; Rossetti, S.; Nouws, H.P.A.; Danko, A.S.; Majone, M.; Aulenta, F.. "Bioelectrochemically-assisted reductive dechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane by a Dehalococcoides-enriched microbial culture". Bioresource Technology 195 (2015): 78-82. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84945480354&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biortech.2015.06.027
  7. Danko, A.S.; Fontenete, S.J.; De Aquino Leite, D.; Leitão, P.O.; Almeida, C.; Schaefer, C.E.; Vainberg, S.; Steffan, R.J.; Azevedo, N.F.. "Detection of Dehalococcoides spp. by peptide nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization". Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology 24 3 (2014): 142-149. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84902920096&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1159/000362790
  8. Danko, A.S.; Leitão, P.O.; Verce, M.F.; Freedman, D.L.. "Efficacy of pentane, toluene, and benzene to support aerobic cometabolism of ethylene dibromide". New Biotechnology 30 1 (2012): 39-43. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867651687&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.nbt.2012.05.001
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2017/06/27 Impact of Magnetite Nanoparticles on the Syntrophic Dechlorination of 1,2-Dichloroethane 14th international Conference Sustainable Use and Management of Soil, Sediment and Water Resources AquaConSoil 2017
Deltares (Lyon, France)
2015/09/07 Bioelectrochemical dechlorination of 1,2-DCA mediated by the humic acid analogue antraquinone-2,6-disulfonate 3rd Symposium on Subsoil Characterization and Remediation 2015
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2013/09/16 Dehalococcoides spp. detection in rock samples using PNA-FISH 2nd Symposium on Subsoil Characterization and Remediation (SSCR 2013)
Instituto Superior técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/12/20 - 2019/06/27 Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources Symposium Organizing Committee (2017/06/27 - 2017/06/28)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/04/12 - 2018/04/15 Organization and assembly of promotional materials for the dissemination of the Mining Engineering course and the Department of the Mining Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering University of Porto.
Exhibition
 16ª Mostra UP.
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2018/04/03 Preparation and presentation of the activities associated to the role of a mining engineer.
Other
 Semana Profissão Engenheiro
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/11/19 - 2017/11/27 "Who wants to be a miner?": Preparation and presentation of activities related to the mining engineer profession.
Workshop
 Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia
Ciência Viva, Portugal
2017/09/29 - 2017/09/29 Preparation and presentation of the research activities developed at CERENA pólo FEUP.
Exhibition
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores
Ciência Viva, Portugal
2017/04/20 - 2017/04/23 Organization and assembly of promotional materials for the dissemination from the courses of the Mining Engineering Department of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto.
Exhibition
 15ª Mostra UP
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016/09/28 - 2016/09/30 "Electrobioleaching applied to a pegmatite lithium ore" poster presentation
Meeting
 3rd European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology
International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology, Italy

Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2016/09/28 - 2016/09/30 "Reductive dechorination of 1,2-DCA with Antraquinone-2,6-Disulfonate modified electrode" poster presentation
Meeting
 3rd European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology
International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology, Italy
2016/03/17 - 2016/03/20 Organization and assembly of promotional materials for the dissemination from the courses of the Mining Engineering Department of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto.
Exhibition
 14ª Mostra UP
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2015/06/29 - 2015/07/02 "Bioelectrochemical dechorination of 1,2-DCA mediated by the humic acid analogue Anthraquinone-2,6-Disulfonate" poster presentation
Conference
 6th European Bioremediation conference
Technical University of Crete, Greece
2014/09/03 - 2014/09/05 "Microbial reductive dechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA) with graphite electrodes serving as electron donors" poster presentation
Meeting
 2nd European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technologies.
International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology, Italy

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
2013/04/16 - 2013/04/19 "Peptide nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization (PNA-FISH) detection of Dehalococcoides spp. in mixed cultures and environmental samples" poster presentation
Conference
 12th International UFZ-Deltares Conference on Groundwater-Soil-Systems and Water Resource Management, AquaConSoil 2013
Deltares, Netherlands
2012/06/04 - 2012/06/06 "Application of a bioelectrochemical cell for the reductive dechlorination of dichloroethane" poster presentation
Symposium
 1st Symposium on Suboil Characterization and Remediation
Centro de Investigação em Geoambiente e Recursos, Portugal
2012/04/06 - 2012/04/06 "Intrinsic biodegradation potential of chlorinated and non-chlorinated solvents at a contaminated site in Portugal" poster presentation
Symposium
 1st Symposium on Suboil Characterization and Remediation
Centro de Investigação em Geoambiente e Recursos, Portugal
2009/10/12 - 2009/10/15 "Reliability of a line-of-view sensor for recycling waste containers" poster presentation
Congress
 Congress ISWA APESB
Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, Portugal
2008/09/03 - 2008/09/06 "Estudo da Fiabilidade de um Sistema Sensor Óptico para Controlo do enchimento de Ecopontos" poster presentation
Conference
 16ª Conferência Nacional de Física/ 17º Encontro Ibérico do Ensino de Física – Física 2008

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021/10/22 Estudo da hidromineralurgia de um concentrado de sulfuretos polimetálicos da SOMINCOR
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rúben Daniel Oliveira Fernandes (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal