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Last updated, segunda-feira, 23 Agosto 2010

Academic Staff

Member	Research Project
Júlio Maggiolly Novais (Full Professor; Group Leader)	Environmental engineering; Microalgal biotechnology
Gabriela Bernardo - Gil (Associate Professor )	Separation Processes
José M. Abecassis Empis (Associate Professor)	Novel food technologies and products
Sebastião S. Alves (Associate Professor)	Transport phenomena in multiphase systems; Biodegradation of VOC's
M. Manuela Regalo da Fonseca (Associate Professor)	Bioreactors; Biotransformations; Cell adaptation to stressful environments; PHA production
Helena Pinheiro (Assistant Professor)	Bio-treatment of textile effluents; Whole-cell biocatalysis in organic media
Mercedes Esquível (Assistant Professor)	Separation Processes
Susete Martins-Dias (Assistant Professor)	Environmental engineering; Phytoremediation technologies; Pollution prevention

Research Scientists

Member

Research Project

Luísa C. Davies

Phytoremediation of azo dyes and contaminated soils using constructed wetlands.

Study of the role of Phragmites australis at cellular level in the detoxification processes.

Associate Members

Member	Research Project
Catarina Dias de Almeida (Associate Professor - ISCSEM)	PHA production
Maria-João R. Matos Cebola (Assistant Professor - Lusófona)	Evaluation of components of nutraceutical relevance in myrtus communis using supercritical extraction techniques as well more conventional methods, for comparison purpose.
Paula Cristina S. F. G. Pereira (Assistant Professor - Lusófona)	Evaluation of components of nutraceutical relevance in myrtus communis using supercritical extraction techniques as well more conventional methods, for comparison purpose.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Nídia D. Lourenço Dye biodegradation in sequencing batch reactors; spectral (UV-Vis, NIR and MIR) / chemometric wastewater and biosludge quality monitoring; multivariate statistical process controlling wastewater treatment systems.

Member	Research Project
Nídia D. Lourenço	Dye biodegradation in sequencing batch reactors; spectral (UV-Vis, NIR and MIR) / chemometric wastewater and biosludge quality monitoring; multivariate statistical process controlling wastewater treatment systems.

Ph.D. Students

Member	Research Project
Adelaide Araújo Almeida	Constructed wetlands for suine wastewater treatment with Vetiveria zizanioides.
Alejandro Sanchez	Quality assessment and biomonitoring of surface waters.
Anxo Conde	Aquaculture sustainable water use.
Claúdio F. Almeida	Azo dye and aromatic amine biodegradation; bioreactor monitoring and supervision.
Ana Mata	Azo dye biodegradability characterization and biodegradation in sequencing-batch bioreactors.
Henrique Pinho	Transport phenomena in multiphase systems.
Lília Alexandre	Acid mine wastewater phytoremediation
Renata Ferreira	Role of Phragmites australis in the detoxification processes.
Rita Barros Silva	Refuse derived fuel production from municipal solid waste.

Research Assistants

Member	Research Project
Cecília Nunes
Carlos Antunes
Dinamene Sousa
Joana Duarte	Ground water monitoring and decontamination.
João Cavalheiro	Large scale biopolymer production from renewable or environmentally undesirable carbon sources.
Pedro Ventura
Maria Albertina Ribeiro	Supercritical Extraction of Essential Oils, Aromatic Compounds and Oleoresins for Food and Cosmetic Industry.