Catarina da Cunha Lopes (BD1B-53EE-972A)

Curriculum Vitae

Catarina da Cunha Lopes

Catarina da Cunha Lopes obtained her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Porto with a grade of 16/20. She subsequently pursued a master's degree in Chemical Engineering, specializing in Processes and Products, at the same university, achieving a final grade of 18/20. Her master's dissertation, titled "Quantitative Prediction of the Dissociation Degree of Ionic Liquids in Binary Mixtures," was carried out at the Laboratory of Separation and ReactionProcesses - Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials (LSRE-LCM) on the Department of Chemical Engineering of FEUP, in which she obtained a grade of 19. Since then, she has been working in the field of Engineering Sciences and Technologies, with an emphasis on Chemical Engineering. Soon after the conclusion of her Integrated Master's, she successfully applied for 3 research grants under the HealthyWaters, NanoCatRed and F-CAT projects. These projects allowed her to enrich her knowledge in the field of wastewater treatment, learn new analysis techniques, improve her competencies, work in a multidisciplinary team, and improve her scientific dissemination skills, among others. So far, she has authored 3 articles, 1 of them as first author, and her work was presented in 5 international and 1 national congresses. Outside of academic and professional pursuits, she is involved in extracurricular activities, such as Python, Solid Works, LaTeX, OutSystems, as well as in academic associations (NEEQ) and organization of events related to Chemical Engineering (ENEEQ, ChemBonding, JEQ). Moreover, she got involved in Sociedade Musical Boa União where she is instrumentist, head of suit and board member.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Catarina da Cunha Lopes

Citation names

Lopes, Catarina
Catarina Lopes
C. Lopes
Lopes, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BD1B-53EE-972A
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3376-5865

Email addresses

catarinalopes@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=674020 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/12 - 2028/12 Ongoing	Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Química e Biológica (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "PFAS-Free waters through catalytic processes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2023/09 - 2024/08 Concluded	Advanced Studies in Project in Engineering (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	18
2024/02 - 2024/04 Concluded	Soft skills for engineering: LaTeX (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/08 Concluded	Transversal Competences in Scientific Research: Food, Innovation, Sustainability (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/07/15 Concluded	Chemical Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Quantitative determination of the dissociation degree of ionic liquids in binary mixtures" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2017/09/01 - 2020/07/01 Concluded	Chemical Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

2019/06 - 2019/08	Research Trainee (Research)	JGR Cork, Portugal

2018/06 - 2018/08	Research Trainee (Research)	JGR Cork, Portugal

2017/06 - 2017/08	Research Trainee (Research)	JGR Cork, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09 - 2022/01	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/07/13 - 2024/12/12	CM4Methane - Unravelling the role of conductive materials in the acceleration of methane production from waste in anaerobic digestion processes PTDC/BTA-BTA/2249/2021 PhD Student Fellow
2023/07 - 2024/07	F-CAT - A catalytic tool for the defluorination of PFAS in drinking water into degradable organics 2022.03874.PTDC Research Fellow

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/13 - 2023/06/30	NanoCatRed - Novel metallic Nanoparticles on Nanostructured supports for oxyanion Caralytic Reduction in water NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-045925 Research Fellow	Concluded
2022/09/07 - 2023/02/06	Healthy Waters - Identification, Elimination, Social Awareness and Education of Water Chemical and Biological Micropollutants with Health and Environmental Implications NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000069 Research Fellow	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Lopes, Catarina; Restivo, João; Orge, Carla; Pereira, M. Fernando R.; Soares, Salomé. "4-Fluorophenol degradation: unveiling the role of metal-catalysts". Paper presented in III Reunião do Grupo de Carbono, 2024. Lopes, Catarina; Restivo, João; Orge, Carla; Pereira, M. Fernando R.; Soares, Salomé . Corresponding author: Lopes, Catarina. "Catalytic hydrodechlorination of 4-chlorophenol in water". Paper presented in 14th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR-2023), 2023. Orge, Carla; Lopes, Catarina; Restivo, João; Pereira, M. Fernando R.. "Halogenated organic compounds removal by catalytic hydrodehalogenation". Paper presented in 9th CESEP - Carbon for Energy Storage and Environment Protection, Budapest, 2023. Velho, Pedro; Lopes, Catarina; Macedo, E.A.. "Predicting the degree of dissociation of ILs in binary mixtures with PDH+UNIQUAC". Paper presented in 1st International Congress on Separation and Purification Technology (ISPT), 2022. Velho, Pedro; Lopes, Catarina; Macedo, E.A.. "Quantitative determination of the dissociation extent of ionic liquids in binary mixtures". Paper presented in XII Iberoamerican Conference on Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties for Process Design (EQUIFASE), Campinas, 2022. Velho, P.; Lopes, Catarina; Macedo, E.A.. "Determining the dissociation degree of ionic liquids in binary mixtures". Paper presented in 32nd European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics (ESAT), Graz, 2022.
Conference poster	Lopes, Catarina; Orge, Carla; Pereira, M. Fernando R.; Soares, Salomé . Corresponding author: Lopes, Catarina. "Catalytic Hydrogenation for PFAS removal". Paper presented in 9th European Nanoporous Materials Institute of Excellence Workshop, 2024.
Journal article	Pedro Velho; Lopes, Catarina; Eugénia A. Macedo. Corresponding author: Eugénia A. Macedo. "Predicting the ionicity of ionic liquids in binary mixtures based on solubility data: II". Fluid Phase Equilibria 569 (2023): 113766. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378381222003363. Lopes, Catarina; Velho, Pedro; Macedo, E. A.. Corresponding author: Macedo, E. A.. "Predicting the ionicity of ionic liquids in binary mixtures based on solubility data". Fluid Phase Equilibria 567 (2023): 113717-113717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2022.113717. Published • 10.1016/j.fluid.2022.113717 Ana Baptista; Shymon, Beata; Silva, Beatriz; Lopes, Catarina; Pereira, Marta; Brandão, Sofia; Manrique, Yaidelin. Corresponding author: Manrique, Yaidelin. "Antibacterial Finishing of Cotton Bed Sheets using Olive Leaves Extract". U.Porto Journal of Engineering (2022): https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-6493_008.005_0005. 10.24840/2183-6493_008.005_0005
Thesis / Dissertation	"Quantitative determination of ionicity of ionic liquids in binary mixtures". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2022.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/09	Towards a sustainable world: catalytic degradation of 4-fluorophenol	11th European Nanoporous Materials Institute of Excellence Workshop Young Scientist Meeting (Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/03 - 2022/03	XXI Jornadas de Engenharia Química - The 21st edition of the Chemical Engineering Days had a dynamic programme full of workshops, lectures and other activities under the motto "Industrial (R)evolution". As well as familiarising them with the current industrial and business reality of the vast world of chemical engineering, this event also provides them with greater contact with the latest technological and scientific trends. This event is also a link between future chemical engineers and professionals in the field. (2022/03) Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/05 - 2021/05	ChemBonding (2021) Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/04 - 2021/04	XX Jornadas de Engenharia Química - The event aims to create a link between future chemical engineers and professionals in the field, familiarising them with the current industrial and business reality of the vast world of chemical engineering and the latest technological and scientific trends. (2021/04) Symposium (Other)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/06/17 - 2024/06/21	This Summer School focuses on understanding how the catalytic processes, including cutting-edge characterization techniques, modelling and design of reactors. The activation of small molecules will be presented as an application show-case. Conference	Summer School - Catalysis: from understanding to applications
2024/03/26 - 2024/03/27	The III RGC aims to be a meeting point with the objective of favouring the dissemination of work involving the foundations, developments and applications of carbon materials in the most varied areas of scientific knowledge, stimulating the creation of new collaborations between multidisciplinary groups. Congress	III Reunião do Grupo de Carbono Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/11	The importance of establishing an essential link between future chemical engineers and professionals in the field, the Conferences also establish greater contact with the latest technological and scientific trends. They are an important tool for Chemical Engineering students, as they enable intellectual development on the part of all participants. "Chemical Engineering 4.0", aims to familiarise with the latest technological and scientific trends, particularly in the context of "Industry 4.0". Meeting	XVIII Jornadas de Engenharia Química - Engenharia Química 4.0 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/12 - 2023/09/15	CHEMPOR conferences promote the participation and exchange of ideas of a broad spectrum of stakeholders – from academics working in science and technology to researchers and engineers in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, and material industries, among others. The aim is to provide a forum for trainees, fellows, and researchers in academia and industry to share and discuss their cutting-edge advances and exchange new research and concepts. Conference	4th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR-2023) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
2023/06/15 - 2023/06/16	DCE23 is an excellent opportunity for doctoral students, of the several areas of engineering, to discuss their on-going research with peers, professors and industry/companies and also for potential industry partners to contact a broad audience of engineers which will soon be looking to move on to the industry. Congress	5th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/11 - 2022/11	The 22nd edition of JEQ had the theme "Catalyse Discovery" and aims to familiarise students with the latest technological and scientific trends in areas such as waste recovery, catalysis, among others. Although it features topics linked to Chemical Engineering, it is not exclusive to students in this area and is open to all interested parties. You can register at the following link: Conference	XVII Jornadas de Engenharia Química - Catalisa a descoberta Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/04 - 2022/04	The main aim of the X ENEEQ is to share knowledge between Chemical Engineering students from different universities across the country. There were visits to companies and lectures on topics such as Energy Transition, Chemical Engineering for Sustainability and Versatility in Chemical Engineering. Symposium	X Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Engenharia Química Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/11 - 2019/11	The event aims to bring academic training into contact with the current industrial and business reality of the chemical engineering world. It is open to the entire academic and business student community. Symposium	XIX Jornadas de Engenharia Química - Engenharia Química rumo à Sustentabilidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04	ENEEQ is a recognised event of strong national interest, being a place for participants to develop their hard and soft skills and professionalism, offering lectures by renowned national and international speakers, visits to companies and workshops focusing on current events. ENEEQ aims to bring together Chemical Engineering students from all over the country, promoting interaction, socialising and the exchange of experiences, taking into account the different realities experienced in the various Higher Education Institutions. Symposium	VII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Engenharia Química Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/11 - 2018/11	The JEQ is an educational and scientific event. The role of an engineer is well established, but the world is constantly changing and, as a result, an engineer has to adapt to it and know how to use their skills to meet future demands. Considering this permanent change, the future of the engineer was discussed at the JEQ, as well as how to prepare for it. Symposium	XVIII Jornadas de Engenharia Química - O futuro prepara-se agora Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/11 - 2017/11	The theme of XVII JEQ was "Chemical Engineering in a permanent state of flux". A permanent state of transience, because being a successful Chemical Engineer means keeping abreast of what is happening in the business, academic and institutional ecosystem, and adapting.	XVII Jornadas de Engenharia Química - A Engenharia Química em permanente estado transiente Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal