Ramón y Cajal Researcher Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

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Biography

Dr. Enrica Uggetti is graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 2007, and she received the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013 she has been hired as postdoctoral researcher by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (LBE-INRA) in Narbonne (France). Since 2013, she is working as researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya within the Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Research Group (GEMMA).

She is expert in the field of nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment, with special focus on constructed wetlands and microalgae-based treatment. She is co-author of more than 50 research papers, 1 book and 5 books chapters. During the last years, her research interest has focused on resource recovery from wastewater under a circular economy approach.

 

María Zambrano Researcher Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

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Biography

Dr. Fabiana Passos is Associate Professor at the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (Brazil). Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher at the GEMMA-UPC (Spain) with a Maria Zambrano fellowship funded by the Spanish Government. She obtained her MSc in Environmental and Resource Management at the Brandenburgische Technische Universitat (Germany) and her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Spain).

Her research is mainly centred in sustainable sanitation systems in low-income areas and resource recovery in decentralised waste and wastewater treatment technologies. Particularly, optimising anaerobic digestion and co-digestion processes of organic waste, as microalgal biomass, food waste, agricultural residues and animal manure, for recovering bioenergy, biofertilizers and other bio-based products.  

Margarita Salas Researcher Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

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Dr. Eva Gonzalez-Flo is a Biomedical Engineer with a Doctoral Degree in Biomedicine specified in synthetic biology and bioengineering. Her research is based on applying engineering principles in biological processes with the ambition of solving real-world problems in both the environmental and biomedicine fields. She obtained her BSc in Biomedical Engineering (2015) and MSc in Biomedical Research (2016) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She was the recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya (FI 2017-2020) and developed her doctoral thesis in the Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications laboratory at UPF-DCEXS.

Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow in the Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech) involved in the H2020 PROMICON Project. Her research seeks to improve the predictability and exploitation of the natural and synthetic microbial consortia for the biosynthesis of products of high industrial relevance by developing genetic and molecular analysis techniques.

Postdoctoral Researcher Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

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Biography

Dr. Antonio Ortiz holds a Bachelor's degree in Architectural Technology and Building Construction from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) in 2014, and he did the bachelor’s thesis at Universidad Autónoma de México within the framework of the programmes UPC-Latin America. He obtained his MSc in Environmental Engineering at Barcelona School of Civil Engineering (UPC) (2018). He was recruited by the Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA) as a researcher (2017-2021). During this time, he carried out his PhD Thesis in the framework of the international projects INCOVER (Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater) and PAVITR (Potential and Validation of Sustainable Natural & Advance Technologies for Water & Wastewater Treatment, Monitoring and Safe Water Reuse in India), both funded by the European Commission H2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

He is expert in the field of nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment on a pilot and demonstrative full-scale assist by biokinetic and hydrodynamic modelling, with special focus on microalgae-based treatement. Antonio Ortiz is co-author of 8 research papers and currently his research interest is focused on implementing nature-based solutions at demonstrative-scale.

Postdoctoral Researcher Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Futur Scientific Profile

 

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Dr. Etiele Morais is a Food Engineering (2012), Master (2015) and PhD (2019) on Food Science and Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil). The researcher has experience in microalgae culture, down-streaming, and biomass application on lab, pilot, and industrial scales, as she has been working in the most diverse aspects of microalgae cultivation for 14 years. She has been hired Junior Researcher by the Center of Marine Science at the University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal) and worked from 2019 to 2022 with wastewater treatment by microalgae in the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) Greentreat project. Since March 2022 she is working as a researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya within the Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Research Group. (GEMMA).