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Sérgio Silva

Junior Researcher (Non-Tenure Track)


Qualifications

  • 2022: PhD Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho
  • 2011: Master Program in Bioengineering, Universidade do Minho
  • Since  2024: Hybrid models implementation to reduce the impact of wastewaters treatment in receiving waters
  • 2022 - 2022: Eco-efficient bioprocess for valorisation of saline resources towards the production of biopolymers
  • 2021 - 2022: Literature search and growth of microorganisms and operation of pressure reactors
  • 2017 - 2022: Novel insights to develop and characterize aerobic granular sludge for wastewater treatment
  • 2015 - 2017: Anaerobic Digestion
  • 2014 - 2015: HighAD - Strategies to optimize Anaerobic Digestion of recalcitrant wastes
  • 2012 - 2014: Anaerobic lipids/LCFA conversion in bioreactors: from microbial ecophysiology to enhanced biogas production
  • 2010 - 2011: Bioaugmentation strategies to enhance long chain fatty acids (LCFA) conversion to methane

Recent Publications

1
Monitoring the stability of aerobic granular sludge under increasing fractions of slowly biodegradable substrate using quantitative image analysis
  • Chemosphere, 374(144233), 2025
2
Monitoring morphological changes from activated sludge to aerobic granular sludge under distinct organic loading rates and increasing minimal imposed sludge settling velocities through quantitative image analysis
  • Chemosphere, 286, Part 2(131637), 2022
3
Effect of sub-stoichiometric Fe(III) amounts on LCFA degradation by methanogenic communities
  • Microorganisms, 8(9), 1375, 2020
4
Inhibition studies with 2-bromoethanesulfonate reveal a novel syntrophic relationship in anaerobic oleate degradation
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(2), e01733-18, 2019
5
Insight into the role of facultative bacteria stimulated by micro-aeration in continuous bioreactors converting LCFA to methane
  • Environmental Science & Technology, 52(11), 6497-6507, 2018
6
Toxicity of long chain fatty acids towards acetate conversion by Methanosaeta concilii and Methanosarcina mazei
  • Microbial Biotechnology, 9(4), 514-518, 2016
7
Long-term acclimation of anaerobic sludges for high-rate methanogenesis from LCFA
  • Biomass & Bioenergy, 67(31), 297-303, 2014
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