Education

• Pedagogic and Scientific Exam in Environmental Biotechnology (Equivalent to Master´s Degree), UM, 1996

• Graduation in Biological Engineering, UM, 1992

Positions

• Assistant Professor, UM, 2002-

• Teaching assistant, UM, 1993-2002

• Ph.D. student, TUM and UM, 1998-

Teaching

• Laboratory of Fluids and Heat Transfer (Biological Engineering Degree - 2nd year)

• Transport Phenomena Laboratory (Biological Engineering Degree - 2th year)

• Instrumental Methods of Analyses (Biological Engineering Degree - 3rd year)

• Laboratory of Chemical Technology I (Biological Engineering Degree - 3rd year)

• Research Project (Biological Engineering Degree - 5th year)

• Industry Training (Biological Engineering Degree - 5th year)

Research

• Kinetics and mass transfer processes in biofilms

• Environmental microbiology focused in nitrifying and heterotrophic bacteria

Selected publications:

• Nogueira R., Melo L. F., Purkhold U. and Wagner M. (2001) Study of the competition between Nitrobacter and Nitrospira in a chemeostat. (In preparation)

• Nogueira R., Melo L. F., Purkhold U., Wuertz S. and Wagner M, Nitrifying and heterotrophic population dynamics in biofilm reactors: Effects of hydraulic retention time and the presence of organic carbon. Water Research, 2001 (in press).

• Garcia-López L., Nogueira R., Melo L. F. and Veiga M. C. Studies of mass transfer coefficients in denitrifying biofilms. 1st World Water Congress of the International Water Association, IWA. Paris, 3-7 July, 2000.

• Nogueira R., Lazarova V. and Melo L., Influence of Dissolved Oxygen on Nitrification Kinetics in a Circulating Bed Biofilm Reactor. Bioprocess Engineering 19 (6), pp. 441–449, 1998.

• Lazarova V., Nogueira R., Manem J. and Melo L., Control of Nitrification Efficiency in a New Biofilm Reactor. Wat. Sci Technol. 36(1), pp. 31–41, 1997.

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Last update: 16-Dez-2006

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