Helena Nadais
Associate Professor
University of Aveiro
Portugal
Biography
Helena Nadais has both a MsC and a BsC in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon University and has a PhD in Sciences Applied to the Environment from the University of Aveiro. She also has a MsC in Specialized Translation from the University of Aveiro. Presently and since 2003, she is Assistant Professor in the Environment and Planning Department at the University of Aveiro. Throughout her academic career she has participated whether as team member or as main investigator in various scientific research projects in the subject of the valorization of wastewater and wastes, and she has recently submitted a patent application on a process for biological recovery of wastes. She is full member of the research center CESAM (www.cesam.pt). With a total of over 65 communications she has 25 papers published in international scientific magazines with peer review, 4 international book chapters and 32 communications in Portuguese and international meetings with peer review.
Research Interest
The research interests of Helena Nadais are centered on biological processes for the treatment and material/energetic valorization of wastewaters and wastes. She has done substantial work on the development of a novel strategy for the operation of biological systems towards the valorization of wastes allowing the raising by around 25% of the bioenergy (methane) production from industrial wastewaters in parallel with the monitoring of the key microbiological groups thriving in such optimized systems. Presently she is focused on microbial fuel cells for energy production from domestic wastewaters.