Alumni

(December 2025) Cátia Gil - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Development of sustainable wound dressings based on bacterial cellulose and surface active compounds"

(July 2025) Ana Teresa Rebocho - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Biological upcycling of mixed PET waste into high value products"

(December 2024) Juliana Almeida - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Advanced strategies for bioprocess optimization in polyhydroxyalkanoates production with phototrophic mixed cultures”

(December 2024) Mafalda Trovão - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Development of novel microalgal mutants with improved pigmentation and protein contents for industrial waste-based fermentation”

(October 2024) João Pereira  - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering “Active dressings based on natural polymers for wound treatment”

(September 2024) Inês Ferreira - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Development antibacterial biomaterials based on chitin-glucan complex and ionic liquids" 

(December 2024) Mafalda Trovão dos Santos - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Development of novel microalgal mutants with improved pigmentation and protein contents for industrial waste-based fermentation”

(December 2024) Juliana Almeida - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Advanced strategies for bioprocess optimization in polyhydroxyalkanoates production with phototrophic mixed cultures”

(July 2024) Ana Rita Bernardino - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering “Flavor production by Actinobacter soli using industrial byproducts” 

(June  2024) Bruno Guerreiro - PhD in Biochemistry “Cryobiophysics: Structure-Function-Property-Design Interplay of Polysaccharides in Crystal Binding”

(December 2023) Catarina Rangel - PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering "Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoates productivity from ethanol-rich feedstocks: knowledge-based process design and online monitoring"

(December 2022) Fernando Silva - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Use of bio-waste for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) biosynthesis: enhanced accumulation towards a sustainable and economical bioprocess"

(December 2022) Sílvia Baptista - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Development and characterization of cosmetic applications for FucoPol"

(Março 2022) Rafaela Cruz - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "The impact of biomass withdrawal strategy on polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) productivity in mixed cultures"

(January 2022) Virgínia Carvalho - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Nutrient removal by a microalgal-bacterial consortium as a means to reduce the aeration demand in wastewater treatment"

(January 2022) Srdana Barreiros - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Investigation of key operational factors impacting phosphorus removal and recovery from wastewater treatment plants"

(2020) Rita Valério - PhD in Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering "Valorisation of corn fibre: optimisation of an integrated process to produce bio-vanillin"

(July 2020) Jorge Santos - PhD in Bioengineering Systems (MIT-Portugal) "A Novel Integrated Metabolic Activated Sludge Model for Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes: Development, Calibration, Validation and Application"

(January 2018) Sílvia Antunes - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Biological conversion of industrial by-products/wastes into value-added bacterial exopolysaccharides"

(September 2018) Inês Farinha - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Process optimization of cell-wall polysaccharides production by Komagataella pastoris"

(March 2018) Yen Nguyen - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Bioaugmentation for the removal of the antiobiotic sulfamethoxazole in wastewater"

(April 2018) Xiaofei Wang - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Impact of dissolved oxygen on PHA production and integration with biological nutrient removal processes"

(December 2015) Margarida Carvalho - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Bioproduction of succinic acid from renewable feedstocks by Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z"

(September 2015) Margarida Carvalho - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Bioproduction of succinic acid from renewable feedstocks by Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z"

(September 2015) Maria Madalena Proença - PhD in Sustainable Chemistry "Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates from oil-containing substrates"

(December 2015) Bárbara Chagas - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Production and characterization of Chitin-Glucan Complex by Komagataella pastoris"

(2013) Filipa Pardelha - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Constraint-based modelling of mixed microbial populations: Application to polyhydroxyalkanoates production"

(2012) Cláudia Galinha - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Monitoring and modelling of membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment incorporating 2D fluorescence spectroscopy"

(2012) Ana Lanham - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Full-scale biological phosphorus removal: quantification of storage polymers, microbial performance and metabolic modelling"

(2011) Ana Rita Ricardo - PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering "Modelling and optimization of the ion exchange membrane bioreactor for removal of anionic pollutants from drinking water streams"

(December 2024) Anouk Duque

Daniel Dias

Nilay

(2019) Ricardo Marques

(2018) Catarina Oliveira

(September 2025) Elisabete Freitas

(December 2020) Soraia Centeio

(September 2025) Bárbara Almeida

(December 2020) Paulo Silva