Teresa Tavares

University of Minho, Portugal

Title: Recovery of Rare Earth Elements for Environmental Catalytic Applications

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Biography

Teresa Tavares graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Porto and started her professional career as production engineer at the national petrochemical industry. She moved to academia and jointed University of Minho as lecturer in Chemical and Biological studies while finishing her PhD project in Bi-metallic Catalysts for SNG Production, partially developed at Haldor-Topsøe A/S, in Denmark. Her present interests are biosorption systems for resources recovery, rehabilitation of contaminated systems, environmental catalysis and sustainable nanocatalysts. She published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and supervised more than 20 PhD projects.

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