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Ana Júlia Cavaleiro

Assistant Researcher (tenured)


Career

  • Since  2025: Assistant Researcher (tenured), Universidade do Minho
  • 2018 - 2024: Junior Researcher (Non-Tenure Track), Universidade do Minho
  • 2013 - 2018: Invited Assistant Reseacher (non-tenured track), Universidade do Minho
  • 2012 - 2013: Invited Assistant Professor, Universidade do Minho
  • 2000 - 2006: Lecturer of the 2nd Triennium, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

Qualifications

  • 2010: PhD Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho
  • 2000: Mestrado em Tecnologias Ambientais, Universidade do Minho
  • 1997: Licenciatura em Engenharia do Ambiente, Universidade de Aveiro

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Since  2022: Associate Diretor of Research Unit, Centre of Biological Engineering

Laboratory Management

Support Room Management

Honors and Awards

  • 2014: Best Oral Presentation (2nd place) at the 12th International Workshop on Environment and Alternative Energy - NASA/ESA/C3P
  • 2008: Prémio Melhor Poster do Dia da Escola de Engenharia 2008
  • 2007: Best poster on the 11th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Brisbane, Australia

Courses

  • Environmental Technology Laboratory ( Integrated Master in Biological Engineering )
  • ( Integrated Master in Biological Engineering )
  • Since  2025: Environmental Protection and Remediation
  • 2018 - 2024: Anoxic Bioprocesses for the Intensification of Produced Water Treatment (AnoxPW)
  • 2018 - 2018: Novel Anaerobes
  • 2013 - 2018: Novel Anaerobes
  • 2011 - 2013: Ecophysiology of anaerobic communities degrading aliphatic hydrocarbons coupled to methanogenesis, sulfate and Fe(III) reduction
  • 2006 - 2010: New perspectives for methane production from long-chain fatty acids
  • 2000 - 2013: Professor integrated in the subunit: Centre of Biological Engineering
  • 1998 - 2000: Efeito de sobrecargas de ácido oleico na actividade de consórcios microbianos anaeróbios desenvolvidos em processos de leito fixo

Projects

Supervision of Researchers


Recent Publications

1
Optimizing bacterial nanocellulose production from eucalyptus bark: A circular approach to wastewater management and resource recovery
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13(2), 115442, 2025
2
Facultative anaerobic bacteria enable syntrophic fatty acids degradation under micro-aerobic conditions
  • Bioresource Technology, 417(131829), 2025
3
  • Magalhães, Carla P.; Alves, Joana I.; Duber, Anna; Oleskowicz-Popiel, Piotr; Stams, Alfons J.M.; Cavaleiro, Ana Júlia
Metabolic versatility of anaerobic sludge towards platform chemical production from waste glycerol
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(419), 2024
4
Effect of micro-aeration on syntrophic and methanogenic activity in anaerobic sludge
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(192), 2024
5
Microplastics biodegradation by estuarine and landfill microbiomes
  • Microbial Ecology, 87(1)(88), 2024
6
A mathematical model for bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soils
  • Applied Sciences-Basel, 12(21), 11069, 2022
7
Iron compounds in anaerobic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons: a review
  • Microorganisms, 10(11), 2142, 2022
8
Effect of endogenous methane production: a step forward in the validation of biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests
  • Energies, 15(13), 4696, 2022
9
Principles, advances, and perspectives of anaerobic digestion of lipids
  • Environmental Science & Technology, 56(8), 4749-4775, 2022
10
Corksorb enhances alkane degradation by hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria
  • Frontiers in Microbiology, 12(618270), 2021
11
Hydrocarbon toxicity towards hydrogenotrophic methanogens in oily waste streams
  • Energies, 14(16), 4830, 2021
12
Intensification of methane production from waste frying oil in a biogas-lift bioreactor
  • Renewable Energy, 168, 1141-1148, 2021
13
Detoxification of ciprofloxacin in an anaerobic bioprocess supplemented with magnetic carbon nanotubes: contribution of adsorption and biodegradation mechanisms
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(6), 2932, 2021
14
Long-chain fatty acids degradation by desulfomonile species and proposal of “candidatus Desulfomonile palmitatoxidans”
  • Frontiers in Microbiology, 11(539604), 2020
15
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes enhance methanogenesis from diverse organic compounds in anaerobic sludge and river sediments
  • Applied Sciences-Basel, 10(22), 8184, 2020
16
Multiple and flexible roles of facultative anaerobic bacteria in microaerophilic oleate degradation
  • Environmental Microbiology, 22(9), 3650-3659, 2020
17
Co-cultivation of Thermoanaerobacter strains with a methanogenic partner enhances glycerol conversion
  • Microbial Biotechnology, 13(4), 962-973, 2020
18
Effect of sub-stoichiometric Fe(III) amounts on LCFA degradation by methanogenic communities
  • Microorganisms, 8(9), 1375, 2020
19
Garden and food waste co-fermentation for biohydrogen and biomethane production in a two-step hyperthermophilic-mesophilic process
  • Bioresource Technology, 278, 180-186, 2019
20
Inhibition studies with 2-bromoethanesulfonate reveal a novel syntrophic relationship in anaerobic oleate degradation
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(2), e01733-18, 2019
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