Lines of Research

Resource recovery and green chemicals

  • Metal recovery for metaliferous waters
  • Green and urban mining
  • Circular bioeconomy: valirization of inudstrial & municipal wastes into products
  • Microbial-electrochemical tech
  • Green hydrogen production

Water treatment for better quality and safety

  • Constructed wetlands, biofilters & nature-based solutions
  • Microbial community assessments
  • Advanced biosensors
  • Remote sensing models
  • Hydro-geochemistry

Climate change and C cycle

  • CO removal & transformation
  • Microbial-electrochemical pathways
  • Organic matter dynamics 
  • Life-cycle assessment and system modelling 
  • Multiscale vegetation modeling 

energy transition & clean tech

  • Policy analysis 
  • Industrial decarbonization 
  • Resilient net zero agriculture
  • Optimization for distributed technology deployment