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Flávio Castro Silva

Flávio Castro Silva

Assistant Researcher

  • Author Name : Silva FC

  • Researcher ID: A-6505-2008
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-7025-0601
  • Ciencia ID: C31C-554E-EE58
  • Department: Environment and Planning
  • Research Group: Resources circularity assessment and technology (RCAT)
  • ISI Web of KnowledgeSM search factor: Author Identifiers=(A-6505-2008)


Research interests

• Bioprocess engineering, kinetics and modelling
• Waste/water treatment and valorization (biological and energetic)
• Biochar production, characterization and novel applications
• CNP (carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous) environmental dynamics
• (Bio)remediation of soil and water compartments

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• Engenharia, cinética e modelação de bioprocessos
• Tratamento e valorização (biológica e energética) de resíduos e águas residuais
• Produção, caracterização e aplicações inovadoras de biochar
• Dinâmica ambiental de CNP (carbono, azoto e fósforo)
• (Bior)remediação de compartimentos aquáticos e terrestres

Academic degrees

Licentiate (5-year) Environmental Engineering - University of Aveiro.

MSc Environmental Engineering (waste/water management and treatment axis) - University of Aveiro.

PhD Environmental Sciences and Engineering (environmental biotechnology and biorefinery axis) - University of Aveiro.

Scientific activities

BSc Research Fellow (SIME 40/00905) UA/CESAM (2006-2008).

MSc Research Fellow (SIME 40/00905) UA/CESAM (2008-2009).

PhD Research Fellow (FCT SFRH/BD/46845/2008) UA/CESAM (2009-2013).

Assistant Lecturer - Laboratories of the courses of: Biological Effluents Treatment; Atmospheric Pollution; Graduation Project; Master Thesis. UA/DAO (2010).

PhD Research Fellow (PTDC/AAC-AMB/111316/2009) UA/CESAM (2013-2014)

Post-doctoral Research Fellow (FCT EXPL/AGR-FOR/0549/2013) UA/CESAM (2014-2015).

Post-doctoral Research Fellow (EU-FP7 603498) UA/CESAM (2015-2017).

Post-doctoral Research Fellow (EU LIFE 14 ENV/PT/000369) UA/CESAM (2017-2019).

Assistant Researcher in Environmental Sciences and Engineering - Environmental Technologies (Jan/2019 - present) - Contract Researcher under Decree-Law 57/2016 Art.23rd - Transitional Rule.

Others

Awards:

-UATEC Empreende+ 2011 award in the category of Young Innovative Entrepreneurship with the project "EcoBioSys";

-Grant award for the 3rd European Biochar Summer School, venue in Seville, March 2015 (European Biochar Research Network;

Publications

Projects

SAYFERT - Safety and effectiveness of Estarreja-based fertilisers under circular economy principles See more

SOLVO - Solutions to restore degraded Soils in mediterranean OLive orchards Via Organic mulch and biochar from olive industry waste See more

BioValChar - Sustainable valorisation of residual biomass for biochar See more

MOSAIC - Application of microbial-laden biochar as a proxy for long-term sustainability of contaminated soils See more

DRuMBEAT - Dirt-based microorganisms towards soil bioremediation of multiple contaminants See more

LIFE NoWaste - Management Of Biomass Ash And Organic Waste In The Recovery Of Degraded Soils: A Pilot Project Set In Portugal See more

EXPLOCHAR: Exploring mechanisms of reducing drought and disease stress in eucalypt seedlings by applying biochar to soils See more

ECOBIOTEC - Ecobiotechnology based on the use of mixed microbial consortium producing PHA from waste carbon sources See more

POLIBIO: Biopolymers production as a new concept on wastewater treatment See more

Scientific Supervision

Master (Main Supervisor): Gisela Neto (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Ana Lúcia Costa (not a CESAM member)

Project Environmental Engineering (Main Supervisor): Diana Cardoso (not a CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Ana Carolina Pedrosa Morim (CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Daniela Gomes Fernandes (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Ana Carolina Morim (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Ana Rita Lopes (CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Gabriel Filipe de Sousa Pimpão (not a CESAM member)

ERASMUS_EAIE Internship (Main Supervisor): Alexandre Jean (not a CESAM member)

Proeject (Main Supervisor): Martim Oliveira (not a CESAM member)

Project fellow (Main Supervisor): Ana Carolina Pedrosa Morim (CESAM member)

ERASMUS+ Internship (Co-supervisor): Els van der Spek (not a CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Pollyanna Abreu Mendoza (CESAM member)

Patents

Silva FC, Nadais H, Arroja L, Serafim LS, Capela I. Process for converting organic wastes into value-added materials [patent granted 2018-03-14, no. 108093 - BOPI no. 55/2018 de 19-03-2018]

Networks

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Member of the COST action NEREUS ES 1403: "New and Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Wastewater Reuse" (WG 4)


Collaborator of the COST action TD 1107: “Biochar as option for sustainable resource management“


Member of the BINP (Biochar Investigation Network of Portugal)


Collaborator of the project RECARE


Collaborator of the ESP team (Earth Surface Processes)


Collaborator of the project No_Waste


Member of the OHM Estarreja (as also coordinator of the MOSAIC and DRuMBEAT projects)

Editorial activity

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Guest editor of the Editor of the Special Issue "Bio-based materials and energy under circular economy approaches" in the journal Sustainability


 


Peer reviewing:


-Water Environment Research
-Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
-Plant and Soil
-Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
-ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
-Electronic Journal of Biology
-CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water
-Ecological Engineering
-Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
-Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering


 

Organisation of scientific meetings

-Member of the organising committee of the Aveiro workshop of the project LIFE No_Waste"Sustainable Agriculture and the Re-Thinking of Fertilisers’ Regulations in a Context of Circular Economy" (Aveiro 27-02-2018)
-Member of the organising committee of the Aveiro workshop (01-12-2015 to 03-12-2015) titled "Hydrological and sediment connectivity following wildfires in Humid Mediterranean" of the COST Action ES1306: CONNECTEUR - Connecting European Connectivity Research

-Member of the organising committee of the Aveiro meeting (14-09-2015 to 18-09-2015) of the EU-FP7 project RECARE (grant agreement no: 603498) Work Package 6: “Testing and demonstration of prevention, remediation and restoration measures”

-Member of the organising committee of the Aveiro meeting (03-06-2014 to 04-06-2014) titled "Biochar in soils: on the path to the required level of scientific understanding"of the COST Action TD1107: Biochar as option for sustainable resource management

Teaching experience

Laboratories of: biological treatment; atmospheric pollution; graduation project; master thesis


CESAM Funding: UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020 + LA/P/0094/2020

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