ALBA PEDROUSO FUENTES

Alba Pedrouso Fuentes is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Biogroup (Biotecnología Ambiental) and the CRETUS Center. Her work focuses on advancing sustainable wastewater treatment technologies and resource recovery processes. She holds a BSc (2013) and MSc (2014) in Chemical Engineering from the same university, followed by a PhD in 2019 on nitritation and anammox processes. Her research emphasizes bioprocess optimization for environmental and economic sustainability, with projects spanning nutrient removal, aerobic granular sludge systems, and waste-to-resource valorization.

Key affiliations include the Biogroup (since 2021 as a postdoctoral fellow) and Cetaqua (2019–2021 as a Project Manager). Her expertise includes microbial community dynamics, autotrophic nitrogen removal, and pilot-scale process implementation. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary research on food waste integration into urban wastewater systems and has supervised multiple master’s theses in chemical and environmental engineering.

Her recent work explores microbial community stability in aerobic granular sludge, economic-environmental impacts of food waste recycling, and novel configurations for nitrogen removal in municipal wastewater. She collaborates with institutions like CETAQUA and participates in international conferences, highlighting advancements in eco-technologies and sustainable wastewater management.