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Group of Environmental Biotechnology

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Angeles Val


Research | Publications | Patents | Projects | Contracts | Doctoral Theses | MS Theses | Awards

Ángeles Val

Associate Professor

Scientific Profiles

I received my degree in Chemical Engineering in June 2006 at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Then I got the FPU fellowship from the Spanish Government to perform my doctoral thesis in the group of Environmental Biotechnology (BioGroup) at USC which was finished in December 2012. I continued working as post-doctoral researcher in the BioGroup and in 2015 I was awarded as principal investigator of a national project (“Proyectos I+D+i jóvenes investigadores”, MINECO). In 2017 I was granted with the Xunta de Galicia fellowship to perform a foreign stay of two years at National University of Ireland, to study advanced UV lamps for wastewater disinfection, and University of Minho, to study the application of Quimiometric Image Analysis as a tool to monitor granular sludge in wastewater treatment systems. My research in the Group of Environmental Biotechnology (BioGroup) is devoted to the biological advanced treatment of municipal and industrial waste(water) with recovery of valuable products (as biogas, biopolymers and water for reuse). The processes studied includes aerobic granular sludge, microalgae, anammox and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production. Since 2023 I am Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at USC.

Publications
Operational variables and microbial community dynamics affect granulation stability in continuous flow aerobic granular sludge reactors
Authors-Ext: Oscar Franchi, María Ignacia Alvarez, Juan Pablo Pavissicha, Marisol Belmonte, Jose Luis Campos
Magazine/book: Journal of water Process Engineering
Volume: 59
Date of publication: 01/03/2024
Publishing house: Elsevier
ISBN: 2214-7144
Impact Index: 7.00
Quartil: Q1 (21/160)
DOI: link
Integrating food waste management into urban wastewater treatment: Economic and environmental impacts
Authors-Ext: Dafne Crutchik, Javiera Barboza, José Ramón Vázquez-Padín, José Luis Campos
Magazine/book: Journal of Environmental Management
Volume: 345
Date of publication: 01/11/2023
Publishing house: Elsevier
ISBN: 0301-4797
Impact Index: 8.70
Quartil: Q1
Decil: D1
DOI: link
Rapid start-up and stable maintenance of the mainstream nitritation process based on the accumulation of free nitrous acid in a pilot-scale two-stage nitritation-anammox system
Authors-Ext: Nicolas Morales, Belen Rodelas, David Correa-Galeote, Jose Luis Campos, Jose Vazquez-Padin
Magazine/book: Separation and Purification Technology
Volume: 317
Date of publication: 15/07/2023
Publishing house: Elsevier
ISBN: 1383-5866
Impact Index: 8.60
Quartil: Q1
Decil: D1
DOI: link
Patents
Tratamiento de efluentes de gran caudal
Authors-Ext: Sergio Santorio
Date of publication: 20/12/2022
Método y sistema para la eliminación de fósforo, carbono orgánico y nitrógeno mediante biomasa granular aerobia y aeración pulsante
Authors-Ext: José Luis Campos
Date of publication: 27/09/2018
Method for Starting Up and Controlling a Biological Process for Ammonium Removal at Low Ammonium Concentrations and Low Temperature through the use of a Two Stage Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal Process
Authors-Ext: Morales Pereira Nicolás; Vázquez Padín Jose Ramón; Rogalla Frank
Date of publication: 13/12/2017
Projects
Integrated biofactory for livestock waste treatment (BIOPIGMA)
Main researcher: Anuska Mosquera, Angeles Val
Working Group: Thelmo Lu Chau, Alba Pedrouso
Financial organism: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) - Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. FEDER, UE. Convocatoria: PROYECTOS DE GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO
Reference: PID2023-148872OB-C21-2
Amount 196875.00€
Scope: Proyecto nacional
Partners: Universidad de Granada
Date of publication: 21/09/2024
Unravelling the symbiosis of microalgae and bacteria in biofilms for implementation in wastewater resource recovery facilities (ALBA)
Main researcher: Angeles Val
Working Group: Yolanda López
Financial organism: Spanish Government (Ayudas para incentivar la consolidación investigadora de la convocatoria 2022)
Reference: CNS2022-135142
Amount 147000.00€
Scope: Proyecto nacional
Date of publication: 01/09/2023
Development of a biotechnological process based on a single unit to obtain polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from fatty wastes generated in industry (POLYGO1)
Main researcher: Angeles Val, Anuska Mosquera
Financial organism: NextGeneration EU, Strategic Projects Oriented to the Ecological and Digital Transition. (RD 685/2021, 3 agosto)
Reference: TED2021-130164B-I00
Amount 149500.00€
Scope: Proyecto nacional
Date of publication: 01/12/2022
Doctoral Theses
Continuous flow granular reactors to treat freshwater aquaculture effluents
Authors: Sergio Santorio
Date: 20/05/2022
European doctorate: X
Mixed-culture biotechnological processes for lipid-rich effluents valorization
Authors: Lucía Argiz
Date: 22/04/2022
European doctorate: X
Cum Laude: X
Aerobic granular sludge technology for fish-canning wastewater treatment: optimisation and scale up
Authors: Paula Carrera
Date: 06/07/2020
European doctorate: x
Master Theses
Efecto de la salinidad y el pH en la recuperación de fósforo por medio de bacterias fotótrofas púrpura
Authors: Marcos González
Date: 09/07/2024
Enriquecemento e acumulación nunha única unidade para a obtención de biopolímeros con ácido oleico como substrato
Authors: Sara Martínez
Date: 21/06/2024

Master in environmental engineering

Efecto de la salinidad y el pH en la recuperación de fósforo por medio de bacterias fotótrofas púrpura
Authors: Marcos González
Date: 09/06/2024

Master in chemical engineering and bioprocesses

Congresses
Aerobic biodegradability of fat, oil and grease wastes
Type: Poster
Magazine/book: Book of abstract of the 6th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment (EcoSTP2023)
Date: 26/06/2023
Organization: Lequia, Universitat de Girona and Catalan Institute for Water Research
City: Girona
Biodegradabilidade de residuos graxos e oleosos para a súa valorización en biopolímeros
Authors-Ext: Jesús Gonzalez-Lopez
Type: Oral
Magazine/book: X Encontro Mocidade Investigadora
Date: 12/06/2023
Organization: Facultade de Ciencias Económica e Empresariais da USC
Tecnoloxía para a valorización de residuos lipídicos mediante a produción de biopolímeros por comunidades bacterianas mixtas.
Type: Oral
Magazine/book: VI Simposio de Investigación en Tecnologías Ambientales (CRETUS)
Date: 07/10/2022
Organization: CRETUS
City: Santiago de Compostela