Dr. Fabiana Passos

 

Associate Professor Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

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Biography

Fabiana Passos obtained her MSc in Environmental and Resource Management at the Brandenburgische Technische Universitat (Germany) (2010) and her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) (2014). She has worked as posdoc researcher at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Brazil) (2015) and as associate professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) (2017-2022). In 2022, she achieved a Maria Zambrano fellowship funded by the Spanish Government and, currently she is an associate professor in the UPC. Her research is mainly centered in waste and wastewater treatment technologies for bioenergy and resource recovery, as biogas, platform chemicals, bioplastics and biofertilizer. Particularly, through optimizing anaerobic processes in a circular economy approach.