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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
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Research & Innovation
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
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Community Engagement
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Research Members
Prof. Piet N. L. Lens
Principal Investigator
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Piet Lens is an established Professor of New Energy Technologies, recruited to NUI Galway via the SFI research professorship programme on Innovative Energy Technologies for Biofuels, Bioenergy and a Sustainable Irish Bioeconomy (IETSBIO3)
Dr Adriana Ferreira Maluf Braga
Postdoc
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Adriana’s research is focusing on the extreme thermophilic dark fermentation process for biohydrogen production using seaweed as substrate
Dr Amitap Khandelwal
Postdoc
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Amitap's research work involves wastewater treatment, nutrient recovery and production of third generation biofuels. Currently, he is engaged in developing sustainable solutions for biogas upgradation.
Dr Juan Castilla-Archilla
POSTDOC
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Juan's research focuses on the valorisation of brewery spent grain for added value compounds such as volatile fatty acid production.
Dr Lucas Fuess
Postdoc
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Lucas's research focuses on solving the bottlenecks of sugarcane vinasse anaerobic digestion for enhanced and continuous bioenergy recovery
Dr Amulya Kotamraju
Postdoc
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Amulya’s research focuses on the development of a Duckweed biorefinery for selenium bioremediation and synthesis of biofuels and value added proteins
Dr Simon Mills
Postdoc
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Simon's research focuses on functional redundancy in the anaerobic digestion microbiome
Dr Eleftheria Ntagia
Postdoc
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Eleftheria’s research focuses on groundwater treatment to drinking water: autotrophic denitrification assisted by electrochemical H2 production and disinfection
Dr Thi Phi Yen Nguyen
Postdoc
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Yen Nguyen's research focuses on medium chain fatty acids production from organic wastes
Mr Mohanakrishnan Logan
PhD Researcher
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Mohan's PhD research focuses on anaerobic digestion of unconventional substrates such as fat slurry and constructed wetland waste
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Ms Ana Maria Murillo Abril
PhD Researcher
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Ana Maria is a PhD student focused on the treatment of Se-rich wastewater using constructed floating wetlands
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Mr James Lawrence
PhD RESEARCHER
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James’s research is focused on dark fermentation of seaweed biomass for biohydrogen production
Ms Marica Areniello
PhD RESEARCHER
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Marica’s research is focused on microbial protein production from biogas: carbon fixation and sulfur upcycling by MOB and SOB to produce S-protein
Research Assistants
Mr Borja Khatabi Soliman Tamayo
Research Assistant
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Borja completed his MSc in Chemistry "Environmental, Life and Water" at the University of Almeria (Spain). He is now a Research Assistant in the IETSBIO3 group
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Ms Marlee Wasserman
Research Assistant
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Marlee completed her MSE in "Environmental Engineering" at the University of Florida (USA). She is a Research Assistant in the IETSBIO3 group.
Ms Diana Quispe
Research Assistant
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Diana completed her MSc in "Food Engineering" at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). She is a Research Assistant in the IETSBIO3 group.
