Dr Ana Soares
Yorkshire Water Academic Fellow
Location: Building 39, Cranfield campus
E: a.soares@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 758367
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Ana Soares is the Course Director for Water and Waste Water Engineering within the Water Programme.
Anna's current research interests are in the field of wastewater treatment, working as an industrial Academic Fellow delivering projects for Yorkshire Water.
Ana's main research interests are biological processes linked with wastewater treatment and biodegradation of recalcitrant pollutants. Ana’s work focuses on the following areas:
- sludge phytoconditioning
- anaerobic wastewater treatment
- carbon sources for nutrient removal
- sludge disintegration technologies
- wastewater modelling (GPS-X)
- white-rot fungi for removal of recalcitrant pollutants
- pure and mixed bacterial cultures and kinetic characterisation
- development of high-rate aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors
- development methods for analytical equipment such as HPLC, GC/MS and LC/MS.
Ana has been directly involved in managing MSc students, delivery of short courses and MSc lecturing.
Clients
- Yorkshire Water
- EPSRC
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Background
Dr Ana Soares has been working in the Centre for Water Science since January 2006 as a Research Fellow and was promoted to Academic Fellow in November 2008. In 2001, Ana completed a degree in Biotechnology Engineering at Algarve University in Portugal and continued her studies in Sweden where she obtained a PhD in Biodegradation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals granted by the Department of Biotechnology, in the field of Environmental Engineering.Ana is currently the Yorkshire Water Academic Fellow in wastewater treatment as part of the partnership between the Cranfield Water Science Institute and Yorkshire Water. Her research interests are biological processes, focussing on anaerobic treatment, nutrient removal and biodegradation of recalcitrant pollutants.
Dr Ana Soares has published over 15 journal papers and conference communications.
