Regina Nogueira
Institute for Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management , Germany
Biography
Regina Nogueira focuses her research activities on the application of biological processes in water and wastewater treatment and their performance optimization. She has been involved in lab- and full-scale projects dealing with the diversity, dynamics and performance of different microbial populations for various reactor operation parameters, both for biofilms and suspended microbial populations. She has been implementing molecular methods like FISH and real-time PCR for the detection of key microorganisms in wastewater in order to give a fast response to the wastewater operators of the efficacy of their measures. More recently, she is working on the production of biopolymers using industrial wastewater from the brewery and yeast industries using microbial mixed cultures. Her aim is to contribute to the valorization of industrial wastewater and to bring to the market biopolymers with a competitive price.