Rate My Professor Gilda Carvalho

Carvalho holds a PhD in Biotechnology and has a distinguished career in environmental biotechnology. Prior to her current role, she served as Senior Researcher at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa from 2015 to 2017 and held positions at FCT/UNL and Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET) in Portugal from 2004 to 2012. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to more than 40 research projects, many multinational collaborations involving industrial partners. Key publications include "Editorial: Unlocking the value of wastewater: innovative biotechnologies and bioprocesses for resource recovery in a circular economy approach" (2025), "The effectiveness and role of phages in the disruption and inactivation of clinical P. aeruginosa biofilms" (2023), "The impact of pH on the anaerobic and aerobic metabolism of Tetrasphaera-enriched polyphosphate accumulating organisms" (2023), and "Electrochemical oxidation processes for PFAS removal from contaminated water and wastewater: fundamentals, gaps and opportunities towards practical implementation" (2022). She is dedicated to teaching and learning, with extensive experience in Chemical, Environmental, and Bioprocess Engineering courses, coordinates the Postgraduate Programs in Urban Water Engineering, and has supervised more than 20 PhD students.