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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Inês da Cruz Roque

Citation names

  • Maria Inês Roque
  • Inês Roque

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7B17-B9D8-0FF7
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0014-654X

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09/01 - 2028/11/30
Ongoing
 Doutoramento em Engenharia Química (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Portugal
2016/09/12 - 2021/12/13
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Química (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Especialização em Processo, Ambiente e Energia
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Portugal
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/12/01 - Current Bolseiro de Investigação Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/01/19 - 2024/11/30 Bolseiro de Investigação Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Portugal
2022/03/17 - 2022/12/31 Estágio Profissional Centro Tecnológico da Cerâmica e do Vidro, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/01/19 - Current H2OforAll - Innovative Integrated Tools and Technologies to Protect and Treat Drinking Water from Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs)
G:(EU-Grant)101081963
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Maria Inês Roque; Rita J. C. Roque; Maria N. Correia; João L. M. Vale; Nuno M. Campos; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães; Sérgio R. Domingos. "Cleaning water with silica-based aerogels - Zooming into the molecular processes behind DBP adsorption using Molecular Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry Calculations". Paper presented in XLIV. Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, 2025.
  2. Maria Inês Roque; Pereira, Matheus M.; João Gomes; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. "How to decrease the disinfection byproducts in water?". Paper presented in 6th Doctoral Congress in Engineering 2025 (DCE25, 2025.
  3. Maria Inês Roque; Pereira, Matheus M.; Chichorro, Teresa; Artur J. M. Valente; Sílvia Gramacho; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. "Can silica materials aid in the removal of disinfection byproducts from water?". Paper presented in 7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment, 2025.
  4. Chichorro, Teresa; Maria Inês Roque; Pereira, Matheus M.; Ghribi, Fethi; Gomes, João; Durães, Luisa; Martins, Rui C.. "Optimization of Advanced Oxidation Processes for the removal 4-Chloro-L-phenylalanine Using Layered Double Hydroxide Catalysts". Paper presented in 7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment, 2025.
  5. Maria Inês Roque; Pereira, Matheus M.; João Gomes; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. Corresponding author: Maria Inês Roque. "Is adsorption a solution to remove Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts?". Paper presented in CERES Talks: student edition, 2025.
  6. Maria Inês Roque; Matheus Mendonça Pereira; Fethi Ghribi; João Gomes; Luisa Durães; Rui C. Martins. "Removal of Disinfection Byproducts from Drinking Water: Two Alternative Approaches". Paper presented in Winter School on CECs and DBPs: Occurrence, Impact and Elimination, 2024.
  7. Maria Inês Roque; Pereira, Matheus M.; Fethi Ghribi; João Gomes; Luisa Durães; Rui C. Martins. "The potential of photocatalysis aided by Layered Double Hydroxides for the removal of 4-chloro-L-phenylalanine from water". Paper presented in 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences, 2024.
  8. Maria Inês Roque; Matheus Pereira; Fethi Ghribi; João Gomes; Luisa Durães; Rui C. Martins. Corresponding author: Maria Inês Roque. "Removal of Disinfection Byproducts from Drinking Water". Paper presented in CERES Talks: student edition, 2024.
  9. Maria Inês Roque; Vittorina Rocha; Eva Domingues; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. Corresponding author: Maria Inês Roque. "Adsorption of Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) using a silica-based aerogel". Paper presented in Microbiotec’23, 2023.
  10. Maria Inês Roque; Vittorina Rocha; Eva Domingues; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. Corresponding author: Maria Inês Roque. "Development of a silica-based cryogel for the adsorption of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in water". Paper presented in Chempor, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Maria Inês Roque; Vittorina Rocha; Artur J.M. Valente; Eva Domingues; Rui C. Martins; Luisa Durães. "Highly efficient aerogel adsorbent for cleaning process water effluents with high concentration of PFAS". Separation and Purification Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2025.133951.
    10.1016/j.seppur.2025.133951
  2. Beatriz Merillas; Maria Inês Roque; Cláudio M. R. Almeida; Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Pérez; Luisa Durães. "Insights on the Influence of the Drying Method and Surface Wettability on the Final Properties of Silica Aerogels". Gels (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/gels11070511.
    10.3390/gels11070511
  3. Marinela-Victoria Dumitru; Ana-Lorena Neagu; Andreea Miron; Maria Inês Roque; Luisa Durães; Ana-Mihaela Gavrila; Andrei Sarbu; et al. "Retention of Ciprofloxacin and Carbamazepine from Aqueous Solutions Using Chitosan-Based Cryostructured Composites". Polymers (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16050639.
    10.3390/polym16050639
  4. Maria Inês Roque; João Gomes; Igor Reva; Artur J. M. Valente; Nuno E. Simões; Paula V. Morais; Luisa Durães; Rui C. Martins. "An Opinion on the Removal of Disinfection Byproducts from Drinking Water". Water 15 (2023): 1724.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/w15091724
  5. Nuno Guerra; Marisa Almeida; Inês Roque; Anabela Amado. "Rotulagem ambiental e compostos orgânicos voláteis nos produtos de construção". Técnica - Revista Técnica de Cerâmica e Vidro 17 (2022): 4-7. https://issuu.com/ctcv/docs/revista-tecnica17-novembro-dezembro.
    Published
  6. Marisa Almeida; Inês Roque; Pedro Frade. "Construção Sustentável". Kéramica - Revista da Indústria Cerâmica Portuguesa 378 (2022): 6-8. https://issuu.com/apicer-ceramicsportugal/docs/keramica378.
    Published
  7. Marisa Almeida; Miguel Azenha; Cristiana Costa Claro; Inês Roque; Victor Francisco; Ricardo Mateus. "Circular BIM". Técnica - Revista Técnica de Cerâmica e Vidro 16 (2022): 14-17. https://issuu.com/ctcv/docs/revista-tecnica16-setembro-outubro.
    Published
Preprint
  1. Beatriz Merillas; Maria Inês Roque; Cláudio M. R. Almeida; Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Perez; Luisa Durães. "Insights on the Influence of the Drying Method and Surface Wettability on the Final Properties of Silica Aerogels". 2025. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202505.2094.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202505.2094.v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Machine Learning for the optimization of paper mechanical and dimensional properties". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/98242.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/21 Effective Removal of Trihalomethanes from Water by a Silica-based Adsorbent 4th International Conference on Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products (DDBP 2024)
(Almería, Spain)
2024/06/26 How to avoid Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water? The potential of Adsorption and Photocatalysis 10th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces - RICI X
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/09/06 Development of a silica-based cryogel for the adsorption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Wastes
(Coimbra, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/03/12 - 2025/03/12 Adsorption activity for high school students
2025/02/08 - 2025/02/09 Participation on the exhibit "Agua, una exposició sense filtre" (Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona) Agua, una exposició sense filtre
2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27 European Researchers' Night European Researchers' Night (Coimbra)
2023/11/23 - 2023/11/23 Soapbox Science Coimbra Soapbox Science Coimbra
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29 European Researchers' Night European Researchers' Night (Coimbra)
Distinctions

Award

2024 Prémio de melhor poster - CERES Talks: Student Edition