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Ana S. Oliveira holds a degree in Biochemistry from Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra, a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Faculty of Pharmacy - University of Porto, and a PhD in Biotechnology, with a specialization in Environmental Science and Engineering from Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola Superior de Biotecnologia. Currently, she is a researcher on the antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment systems field. Particular research interests include the effect of chiral antibiotics on antibiotic resistance in wastewater, wastewater treatment and valorization, multitrophic aerobic granular sludge, functional dynamics of microbial communities. She has several papers in peer reviewed international scientific journals and communications in scientific international and national conferences. Also, Ana has been engaged in editing and reviewing activities in indexed international scientific journals. She is actively involved in ongoing projects being a team member of national and international projects, all devoted to the treatment and valorisation of wastewater, and her work led to 2 provisional applications for international patents. She has been involved in the supervision and co-supervision of MSc students and undergraduate students’ projects. Ana S. Oliveira has also been dedicated to teaching practical classes at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and has been involved in the dissemination of science activities to the wider public.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Sofia Teixeira Oliveira
Date of birth
1992/11/26
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Oliveira, Ana S.
  • Oliveira, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F31D-DEA6-9783
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3070-1604
Scopus Author Id
55532795700

Email addresses

  • atoliveira@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Environmental Biotechnology
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Bioremediation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Bio-derived Novel Materials

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/01 - 2024/02/09
Concluded
 Project management - short-term course (Outros)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2020/11/19
Concluded
 Ana Oliveira (Doutoramento)
Major in Biotechnology
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
"Aerobic Granular Sludge technology combined with bioaugmentation with immobilized bacteria as a tool to degrade micropollutants from wastewater" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2018/07 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Advanced course in Microbial diversity: methods and applications (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2015/11 - 2015/11
Concluded
 3rd Clinical Research Training (Outros)
Clinical academic center (2CA Braga), Portugal
2015/09 - 2015/09
Concluded
 Course in Laboratory Animal Science, Category C with FELASA accreditation (Outros)
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2013 - 2015
Concluded
 Mestrado em Química Farmacêutica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"Synthesis of curcumin derivatives as potential P-glycoprotein inhibitors" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2010/09 - 2013/07
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/11/18 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/10/19 - 2024/11/15 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
2021/07 - 2022/10 Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
2021/02/24 - 2021/07/23 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/10 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/07 - 2020/11 Biotechnology PhD student. PhD grant attributed by European Social Fund under the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte - Norte 2020 (NORTE-08-5369-FSE-000007_BD_1) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
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2012/08 - 2012/08 Internship Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/11/01 - 2023 Proof-of-concept Grant | Microalgae granular sludge - oxygen production in wastewater treatment systems
POCI-01-0246-FEDER-181302
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/11/18 - Current ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals
101039270
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Germany
European Research Council
Ongoing
2022/10 - 2025/10/19 Bioshoes4All - Inovação e Capacitação da Fileira do Calçado para a Bioeconomia Sustentável
Bioshoes4All
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
Ongoing
2021/02 - 2021/07 GREAT - Granular microalgae-bacterial sludge for aquaculture wastewater treatment
PTDC/BTA-BTA/29970/2017
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2018/10/04 - 2022/07/22 Beer2BioPol - Treatment and valorization of brewery waste through polyhydroxyalkanoates
PTDC/BTA-BTA/31746/2017
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 AGeNT - Aerobic Granular sludge technology combined with selected microbial agents to degrade toxic pollutants from wastewater
PTDC/BTA-BTA/31246/2017
Other
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017 - 2021/09 MOBFOOD - Mobilizing scientific and technological knowledge in response to the challenges of the agri-food market
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024524
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA

European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
2017/04 - 2020 AQUAVAL - Valorization of water use in aquaculture using multi trophic systems
WaterJPI/0003/2016
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Enxeñaría Química, Spain

Università degli studi di Torino - Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Italy
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Castro, P.M.L.; Amorim, C.L.. Corresponding author: Amorim, C.L.. "Optimizing the dissolved oxygen requirements for effective pollutant removal from coastal aquaculture wastewater aiming at water recycling". Paper presented in The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS) virtual conference, 2024.
    Published
  2. Ana S. Oliveira; Marta Alves; Frederico Leitão; Marta Tacão; Isabel Henriques; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Recycling of marine aquaculture wastewater using a microalgae-bacterial granular sludge system". 2022.
    Published
  3. Ana S. Oliveira; Marta Alves; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgae-bacterial granular sludge systems - on the road for more sustainable processes in the aquaculture sector". 2022.
  4. Ana S. Oliveira; Marta Alves; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgae granular systems feasible for the treatment of marine aquaculture streams containing florfenicol antibiotic". Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  5. Marta Alves; Ana S. Oliveira; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Efficient ammonium removal from marine aquaculture wastewater with microalgal-bacterial granular sludge technology". Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  6. Ana S. S. Sousa; Ana S. Oliveira; Rui M. S. C. Morais; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgal biomass production in a raceway system using meat processing water as feedstock". Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  7. Marta Alves; Ana S. Oliveira; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgae-bacterial granular systems able to treat marine aquaculture water streams". Porto, 2021.
    Published
  8. Ana S. Oliveira; Pereira, S.I.A.; Catarina L. Amorim; M. C. M. van Loosdrecht; Paula ML Castro. "Extracellular polymeric substances recovered from aerobic granular sludge - a natural material for different applications". Porto, 2021.
    Published
  9. Marta Alves; Ana S. Oliveira; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Rapid granulation and stable performance of a microalgal-bacterial granular sludge system treating saline wastewater". 2021.
    Published
  10. Ana S. Oliveira; Catarina L. Amorim; Jure Zlopasa; Yumei Lin; Mark van Loosdrecht; Paula ML Castro. "Bioaugmentation of aerobic granular sludge with specialized degrading granules treating 2-fluorophenol wastewater". Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  11. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Specialized degrading granules effective for bioaugmentation of Aerobic Granular Sludge reactor treating 2-fluorophenol in wastewater". Porto, 2019.
    Published
  12. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Production of granules with the degrading strain Rhodococcus sp. FP1 using polymeric immobilizing agents". Delft, 2018.
    Published
  13. Ana S. Oliveira; Daniela P. Mesquita; Catarina L. Amorim; A. Luís Amaral; Eugénio C. Ferreira; Mark van Loosdrecht; Paula ML Castro. "Extraction and characterization of extracellular polymeric substances from aerobic granular sludge from a full-scale sequencing batch reactor in Portugal". Porto, 2017.
    Published
  14. Ana S. Oliveira; Catarina L. Amorim; Jure Zlopasa; Yumei Lin; Mark van Loosdrecht; Paula ML Castro. "Aerobic granules synthesized with EPS and degrading strain Rhodococcus sp. FP1 for industrial wastewater treatment". Porto, 2017.
    Published
  15. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Synthetic and natural dyes as models for bioactive compounds". Porto, 2015.
    Published
  16. Ana S. Oliveira; Emília Sousa; Maria Helena Vasconcelos; Madalena Pinto. "Synthesis of curcumin derivatives with potential to inhibit P-glycoprotein expression". Porto, 2015.
    Published
  17. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Synthesis of a library of curcumin derivatives with potential P-gp modulatory activity". Aveiro, 2015.
    Published
  18. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Curcumin a valuable model for therapeutic agents: Synthesis and biological activities of curcumin derivatives". Porto, 2014.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Castro, P.M.L.; Amorim, C.L.. Corresponding author: Amorim, C.L.. "Optimizing the dissolved oxygen requirements for effective pollutant removal from coastal aquaculture wastewater aiming at water recycling". Paper presented in The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS) virtual conference, 2024.
  2. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Miguel Ramos; Castro, Paula. "Mycelia inactivation processes –maintaining the flexibility and strength of mycelium-based biocomposites". Paper presented in Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2023 – MICROBIOTEC’23, 2023.
  3. Oliveira, Ana; Castro, Paula; Amorim, Catarina L.. "Microalgae allow reducing aeration requirements and improve the efficiency of granular sludge treating coastal aquaculture streams aimed at recirculation". Paper presented in Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2023 – MICROBIOTEC’23, 2023.
  4. Ana S. Oliveira; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgae-bacterial granular sludge under reduced aeration efficiently treat coastal aquaculture streams aimed at recirculation". 2023.
  5. Ana S. S. Sousa; Ana S. Oliveira; Rui M. S. C. Morais; Paula ML Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Microalgal biomass production in a raceway system using meat processing water as feedstock". 2021.
  6. Alves, Marta; Oliveira, Ana S. ; Castro, Paula; Amorim, Catarina L.. "Rapid granulation and stable performance of a microalgal-bacterial granular sludge system treating saline wastewater". 2021.
  7. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Amorim, Catarina L.; Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht; Castro, Paula. "Intermittent load of 2-fluorophenol in saline wastewater shapes aerobic granular sludge microbiome and reactor performance". 2020.
  8. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Amorim, Catarina L.; Jure Zlopasa; Yumei Lin; Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht; Castro, Paula. "Specialized degrading granules effective for bioaugmentation of Aerobic Granular Sludge reactor treating 2-fluorophenol in wastewater". 2019.
  9. Ana S. Oliveira; Catarina L. Amorim; Jure Zlopasa; Y. Lin; M.C.M.van Loosdrecht; Paula ML Castro. "Production of granules with the degrading strain Rhodococcus sp. FP1 using polymeric immobilizing agents". 2018.
  10. Ana S. Oliveira. "Aerobic granules synthesized with EPS and degrading strain Rhodococcus sp. FP1 for industrial wastewater treatment". 2017.
  11. Iva Nogueira; Oliveira, Ana S. ; P. Melo; F. Ferreira; Madalena Pinto; Maria Emília da Silva Pereira de Sousa. "Synthetic and natural dyes as models for bioactive compounds". 2015.
  12. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Maria Emília da Silva Pereira de Sousa; Maria Helena Vasconcelos; Madalena Pinto. "Synthesis of a library of curcumin derivatives with potential P-gp modulatory activity". 2015.
  13. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Maria Emília da Silva Pereira de Sousa; Maria Helena Vasconcelos; Madalena Pinto. "Curcumin a valuable model for therapeutic agents: Synthesis and biological activities of curcumin derivatives". 2014.
Journal article
  1. Ana S. Oliveira; Marta Alves; Frederico Leitão; Marta Tacão; Isabel Henriques; Paula M.L. Castro; Catarina L. Amorim. "Bioremediation of coastal aquaculture effluents spiked with florfenicol using microalgae-based granular sludge – a promising solution for recirculating aquaculture systems". Water Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119733.
    10.1016/j.watres.2023.119733
  2. Oliveira, Ana S.; Amorim, Catarina L.; Zlopasa, Jure; van Loosdrecht, Mark; Castro, Paula M.L.. "Recovered granular sludge extracellular polymeric substances as carrier for bioaugmentation of granular sludge reactor". Chemosphere 275 (2021): 130037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130037.
    10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130037
  3. Oliveira, Ana S.; Amorim, Catarina L.; Mesquita, Daniela P.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark; Castro, Paula M.L.. "Increased extracellular polymeric substances production contributes for the robustness of aerobic granular sludge during long-term intermittent exposure to 2-fluorophenol in saline wastewater". Journal of Water Process Engineering 40 (2021): 101977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2021.101977.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jwpe.2021.101977
  4. Oliveira, Ana S.; Amorim, Catarina L.; Ramos, Miguel A.; Mesquita, Daniela P.; Inocêncio, Paulo; Ferreira, Eugénio C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark; Castro, Paula M.L.. "Variability in the composition of extracellular polymeric substances from a full-scale aerobic granular sludge reactor treating urban wastewater". Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2020): 104156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2020.104156.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jece.2020.104156
  5. Lopes-Rodrigues V; Oliveira A; Correia-da-Silva M; Pinto M; Lima RT; Sousa E; Vasconcelos MH. "A novel curcumin derivative which inhibits P-glycoprotein, arrests cell cycle and induces apoptosis in multidrug resistance cells.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27908756.
    Published • 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.11.023
  6. Oliveira AS; Sousa E; Vasconcelos MH; Pinto M; Oliveira, Ana; Sousa, Emília; Vasconcelos, Maria; Pinto, Madalena. "Curcumin: A Natural Lead for Potential New Drug Candidates.". Current Medicinal Chemistry 22 36 (2015): 4196-4232. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26511469.
    Published • 10.2174/0929867322666151029104611
Online resource
  1. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Miguel Ramos ; Castro, Paula. Nova tecnologia minimiza impacto ambiental de resíduos no tratamento de efluentes suinícolas. 2021. https://vozdocampo.pt/2021/12/16/nova-tecnologia-minimiza-impacto-ambiental-de-residuos-no-tratamento-de-efluentes-suinicolas/.
  2. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Miguel Ramos; Castro, Paula. Nova tecnologia minimiza impacto ambiental de resíduos no tratamento de efluentes suinícolas. 2021. http://www.agrotec.pt/noticias/nova-tecnologia-minimiza-impacto-ambiental-de-residuos-no-tratamento-de-efluentes-suinicolas/.
  3. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Miguel Ramos; Castro, Paula. Nova tecnologia minimiza impacto ambiental de resíduos no tratamento de efluentes suinícolas. 2021. https://www.agriterra.pt/Artigos/374799-Nova-tecnologia-minimiza-impacto-ambiental-residuos-no-tratamento-efluentes-suinicolas.html.
  4. Oliveira, Ana S. ; miguel ramos; Castro, Paula. A Portuguese project turns liquid waste from pig farms into organic fertilizer. 2021. https://www.brytfmonline.com/a-portuguese-project-turns-liquid-waste-from-pig-farms-into-organic-fertilizer/.
  5. Oliveira, Ana S. ; Miguel Ramos; Castro, Paula. Projeto português transforma efluentes de suiniculturas em fertilizante orgânico. 2021. https://greensavers.sapo.pt/projeto-portugues-transforma-efluentes-de-suiniculturas-em-fertilizante-organico/?photo=1.
  6. Oliveira, Ana S.. Curcumin, from Indian spice to a molecular model in drug discovery?. 2016. https://atlasofscience.org/curcumin-from-indian-spice-to-a-molecular-model-in-drug-discovery/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Aerobic Granular Sludge technology combined with bioaugmentation with immobilized bacteria as a tool to degrade micropollutants from wastewater". PhD, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 2020.
  2. Oliveira, Ana S.. "Synthesis of curcumin derivatives as potential P-glycoprotein inhibitors". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, 2015.

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent
  1. 2022. "Mixed granular biomass production process and its application".
    Protected
  2. 2021. "Imobilizados de microrganismos em substâncias poliméricas extracelulares".
    Protected

Other

Other output
  1. Video: Freetilizer - the technology that will change the world. 2021. Miguel Ramos; Nuno Castro; João Calixto; Oliveira, Ana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLeccM-zmV0&t=24s https://www.pipemasters.pt/environmental-projects-freetilizer.
  2. Video - Pitch: The AquaVal business case. 2018. Catarina L. Amorim; Ana S. Oliveira. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/30d65ead-ed21-4ac7-be76-ee12638bffd0.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/12/09 Recycling of marine aquaculture wastewater using a microalgae-bacterial granular sludge system The 5th International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Management
Online (China)
2022/11/17 Microalgae-bacterial granular sludge systems - on the road for more sustainable processes in the aquaculture sector 2nd Conference on Innovation, Sustainability and Regeneration
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/31 Microalgae granular sludge systems are robust to deal with antibiotic loads in marine aquaculture streams Webinar: GReAT - Granular microalgae-bacterial sludge for aquaculture wastewater treatment
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2021/12/13 Biopolymers recovered from sludge as feasible material to devise inocula for bioaugmentation processes Webinar: AGeNT - Aerobic Granular Sludge technology combined with microbial agents to degrade toxic pollutants in wastewater
Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina (CBQF), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2021/11/24 Microalgae granular systems feasible for the treatment of marine aquaculture streams containing florfenicol antibiotic Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021 – MICROBIOTEC’21
Nova University of Lisbon (Lisbon)
2021/11/24 Efficient ammonium removal from marine aquaculture wastewater with microalgal-bacterial granular sludge technology Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021 – MICROBIOTEC’21
Nova University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09 Extracellular polymeric substances recovered from aerobic granular sludge - a natural material for different applications IWA International Joint Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance and on Rethinking Treatment with Asset Management
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) (Porto, Portugal)
2021/09 Microalgae-bacterial granular systems able to treat marine aquaculture water streams IWA International Joint Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance and on Rethinking Treatment with Asset Management
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) (Porto, Portugal)
2021/04/30 Extracellular polymeric substances in aerobic granular sludge: from waste to valuable bioproduct Biotalks from Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina (CBQF)
Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina (CBQF), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (porto, Portugal)
2020/03/05 Bioaugmentation as tool to improve AGS systems. AQUAVAL Wastewater Treatment Technologies Training School
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (Porto, Portugal)
2019/12 Bioaugmentation of Aerobic Granular Sludge with specialized degrading granules treating 2-fluorophenol wastewater Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019 - MICROBIOTEC19
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra , Portugal)
2019/10 Specialized degrading granules effective for bioaugmentation of Aerobic Granular Sludge reactor treating 2-fluorophenol in wastewater 2nd International Meeting on New Strategies in Bioremediation Processes (BioRemid2019)
FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (porto, Portugal)
2019/09/17 Wastewater Treatment – Laboratory Practice "Workshop Training of Students" in the scope of ERASMUS PLUS Programme–EGREEN
Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Faculty of Biotechnology (Porto, Portugal)
2017/12 Extraction and characterization of extracellular polymeric substances from aerobic granular sludge from a full-scale sequencing batch reactor in Portugal Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2017 - MICROBIOTEC17
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (porto, Portugal)
2016/09 Synthesis of curcumin derivatives as potential P-glycoprotein inhibitors Curricular unit: Introdução à Química Farmacêutica e Medicinal from the MSc in Pharmacutical Chemistry, 1st curricular year, lective year 2015-2016
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia (porto, Portugal)
2016/03 Sulforhodamine B assay and Rhodamine 123 efflux assay Curricular Unit: Bioassays in drugs discovery, Master of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia (Porto, Portugal)
2016/01 Curcumin, a valuable model for new cytotoxic agents to circumvent multidrug resistance The 6th International Conference on Natural Products for Health and Beauty (NATPRO6)
(Khon Kaen, Thailand)
2015/09 Thioxanthones derivatives as dual inhibitors of P-glycoprotein and tumor cell growth 51st Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology - EUROTOX 2015
(Porto, Portugal)
2015/05 Synthesis of curcumin derivatives with potential to inhibit P-glycoprotein expression 8th edition IJUP – Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto
(Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/11/13 Multi-strain immobilization in extracellular polymeric substances for improving recalcitrant pollutants removal from wastewater
Supervisor
 Applied Microbiology (Master)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2019/09 - 2021/02 Food processing wastewater as feedstock for microalgae growth and nutrient removal
Co-supervisor
 Microbiologia Aplicada (Master)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/02/07 - 2024/02/07 Promotion of a 1-hour and 30 min activity on “Microplastics” aimed at high school students, under the program Biofase - Percursos em Biotecnologia (2024/02/07 - 2024/02/07)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2024 Technical and scientific collaboration under the scope of Environmental Biotechnology activities for "Open Week" at ESB-UCP (2017 - 2019) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15 Organization and participation in the activity “Microrganismos limpam as águas residuais” in the “Dia do Microorganismo” (2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/07/14 - 2023/07/14 Promotion of a 2-hours activity on scientific principles aimed at high school students, under the program Teen Academy (2023/07/14 - 2023/07/14)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2022/01/27 - 2022/01/28 Promotion of a 1.5-hours activity on "Formation of acid rain and effects on aquatic organisms" (1.5+1.5h of activities on January 27 and 1.5h on January 28) aimed at high school students, under the program Biofase - Percursos em Biotecnologia da Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2022/01/27 - 2022/01/28)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2021/12 - 2021/12/13 Organization of the webinar: AGeNT - Aerobic Granular Sludge technology combined with microbial agents to degrade toxic pollutants in wastewater (2021/12/13 - 2021/12/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
2021/11/08 - 2021/11/08 Promotion of a 3-hour activity on “Acid rain” and “Biotechnology on wastewater treatment” aimed at high school students, under the program Biofase - Percursos em Biotecnologia of Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2021/11/08 - 2021/11/08)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2018/09 - 2018/09 Technical and scientific collaboration in the Festival Aquaporto 2019 activities (2018/09 - 2018/09) Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/03 - Current Participation in the Roundtable “Water Challenges: Prevention, Treatment and Future” in the seminar “ARQUIMEDES: Os Desafios na Gestão da Água”.
Round table
 ARQUIMEDES: Os Desafios na Gestão da Água
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/02 Participation in the pre-acceleration BIOTECH_agrifood INNOVATION program (2017 edition)
Call
 BIOTECH_agrifood INNOVATION program (2017 edition)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2017/09/27 - 2017/09/28 Attendance at Porto Water Innovation Week 2017 - European Water Innovation Conference
Conference
 Porto Water Innovation Week 2017
AdP Águas de Portugal SGPS, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/11 - 2024/11 Bioresource Technology (0960-8524) Elsevier
2024/04 - 2024/04 Avanced Sustainable Systems (2699-9412) Wiley
2024/04 - 2024/04 Advanced energy and sustainability research (2699-9412) Wiley
2022/05 - 2022/07 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering (16157591) Springer

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/11 - Current COST Action | Water4Reuse | CA23104 - Mainstreaming water reuse into the circular economy paradigm
Member
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2024/05 - Current COST Action | FULLRECO4US | CA20133 - Cross-border transfer and development of sustainable resource recovery strategies towards zero waste
Member
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2024/05 - Current COST Action | PURPLEGAIN | CA21146 - Fundamentals and applications of purple bacteria biotechnology for resource recovery from waste
Member
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2022 - 2024/11 Science on Demand Task Force
Member
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2025/01 Bioreactor Technology course - responsible for Laboratory practical classes Bioengineering (Licenciatura) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/03 - 2024/03 Sustainability and Environmental Biotechnology - Lecturer of the session "Wastewater valorisation" Master in Applied Microbiology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/03 - 2024 Sustainability and Environmental Biotechnology course - responsible for the laboratory practical classes Master in Applied Microbiology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/02 - 2024 Fermentation and Enzymology course - responsible for the laboratory practical classes Master in Applied Microbiology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2021/03 - 2022/07 Microbiology and Environmental Quality course - responsible for Laboratory practical classes Master in Applied Microbiology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2021/11/16 - 2021/11/16 Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship module - Lecturer of the session "Wastewater valorization - the challenges and business opportunities" M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and Management (Master) University of Saint Joseph, Macau SAR China

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/08 - 2025/02 Guest Editor | Applied Sciences | Special issue "Novel Approaches for Biological Wastewater Treatment" (2076-3417) MDPI
2022/11 - 2023/12/31 Guest Editor | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Special issue "Application of Biofilm in Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery" (1660-4601)) MDPI

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/05 - 2021/06 "Researcher's club" programme at Universidade Católica Portuguesa Victória Vendrame
2021/05 - 2021/06 Co-supervision of class project of Microbiology Project "Immobilized microalgal-bacterial granules for marine aquaculture wastewater treatment" (BSc course in Microbiology) Joana Batista
2019/04 - 2019/05 Co-supervision of the class project of Microbiology and Environmental Quality "2-Fluorophenol degradation by bacteria isolated from aerobic granular sludge" (MSc course in Applied Microbiology) Ana Sofia Silva, Daniel Filipe and Mónica Ribeiro
Distinctions

Award

2022 2022 Annual Incentive of the Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry for researchers
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina , Portugal
2019 2nd place in the Best Young Research Communication Awards in the 2nd International Meeting on New Strategies in Bioremediation Processes (BioRemid2019)
2018 Innovation award in the pre-acceleration BIOTECH_agrifood INNOVATION program (2nd edition)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal