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Maria Alcina Pereira

Assistant Professor



Career

  • Since  2013: Assistant Professor, Universidade do Minho
  • 2008 - 2013: Assistant Researcher, Universidade do Minho

Qualifications

  • 2003: PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho
  • 1999: Master Program on Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho

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Recent Publications

1
Biological treatment of produced water coupled with recovery of neutral lipids
  • Water Research, 147, 33-42, 2018
2
Tuning culturing conditions towards the production of neutral lipids from lubricant-based wastewater in open mixed bacterial communities
  • Water Research, 144, 532-542, 2018
3
Improvement of biomethane production from sewage sludge in co-digestion with glycerol and waste frying oil, using a design of experiments
  • Bioenergy Research, (In Press), 2018
4
Insight into the role of facultative bacteria stimulated by micro-aeration in continuous bioreactors converting LCFA to methane
  • Environmental Science and Technology, 52(11), 6497-6507, 2018
5
Influence of carbon anode properties on performance and microbiome of Microbial Electrolysis Cells operated on urine
  • Electrochimica Acta, 267, 122-132, 2018
6
Hydrogen production by Clostridium cellulolyticum a cellulolytic and hydrogen-producing bacteria using sugarcane bagasse
  • Waste and Biomass Valorization, (In Press), 2018
7
Carbon nanotubes accelerate methane production in pure cultures of methanogens and in a syntrophic coculture
  • Environmental Microbiology, 19(7), 2727-2739, 2017
8
Investigating bacterial community changes and organic substrate degradation in microbial fuel cells operating on real human urine
  • Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 3(5), 897-904, 2017
9
Production of added value bacterial lipids through valorisation of hydrocarbon-contaminated cork waste
  • Science of the Total Environment, 605-606, 677-682, 2017
10
Rhodococcus opacus B4: a promising bacterium for production of biofuels and biobased chemicals
  • AMB Express, 6(35), 1-11, 2016
11
Boosting dark fermentation with co-cultures of extreme thermophiles for biohythane production from garden waste
  • Bioresource Technology, 219, 132-138, 2016
12
A design of experiments to assess phosphorous removal and crystal properties in struvite precipitation of source separated urine using different Mg sources
  • Chemical Engineering Journal, 298, 146-153, 2016
13
Toxicity of long chain fatty acids towards acetate conversion by Methanosaeta concilii and Methanosarcina mazei
  • Microbial Biotechnology, 9(4), 514-518, 2016
14
Continuous fungal treatment of non-sterile veterinary hospital effluent: pharmaceuticals removal and microbial community assessment
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100(5), 2401-2415, 2016
15
Conversion of Cn-Unsaturated into Cn-2-Saturated LCFA Can Occur Uncoupled from Methanogenesis in Anaerobic Bioreactors
  • Environmental Science and Technology, 50(6), 3082-3090, 2016
16
Valorization of lubricant-based wastewater for bacterial neutral lipids production: Growth-linked biosynthesis
  • Water Research, 101, 17-24, 2016
17
Ultrasound intensification suppresses the need of methanol excess during the biodiesel production with Lipozyme TL-IM
  • Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 27, 530-535, 2015
18
Biohythane production from marine macroalgae Sargassum sp. coupling dark fermentation and anaerobic digestion
  • Bioresource Technology, 190, 251-256, 2015
19
Study of 16 Portuguese activated sludge systems based on filamentous bacteria populations and their relationships with environmental parameters
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99(12), 5307-5316, 2015
20
Influence of tetracycline on the microbial community composition and activity of nitrifying biofilms
  • Chemosphere, 117, 295-302, 2014
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