Anuska Mosquera Corral

Pofessor of Chemical Engineering

Scientific Profiles

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Associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) since 2007. PhD. in Chemical Sciences from the USC in 1998 focused on the nitrogen removal from industrial effluents. Postdoctoral researcher at the TU Delft (The Netherlands) in 2000-2001, where she specialized in aerobic granular reactors to remove organic matter (COD) and nitrogen from industrial wastewater and on the application of autotrophic denitrification (anammox, denitrification with sulphur compounds) to effluents with low COD content. Then in 2005, she began applying the molecular biology techniques (FISH and DGGE) for the identification of bacterial populations in bioreactors. In 2011, she began the research line of biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates) production from liquid wastes using mixed cultures.

Education

• Graduation in Industrial Chemistry University of Santiago de Compostela, 1992.
• MSc. Department of Chemical Engineering. University of Santiago de Compostela, 1993.
• Ph.D. Department of Chemical Engineering. University of Santiago de Compostela, 1998.

Positions

• Associate Professor USC (2012-present)
• Assistant Professor USC (2003-2011)
• Research Fellow USC (2001-2003)
• Contract TMR in the Department of Biotechnology of the TU Delft (2000-2001)
• Research Fellow USC (1996-1999)

Teaching Activities

• Lab. Fluid Transport and Heat Transfer (Chemical Engineering Degree, 3rd year)
• Project (Chemical Engineering Degree, 5th year, Technical Industrial Engineering Degree, 3rd year)
• Methodological Tools applied to the wastewater treatment (Doctorate in Chemical and Environmental Engineering)

Research Activities

• Biological wastewater treatment processes
• COD and nutrients removal from urban and industrial wastewater
• Aerobic granulation in Sequential Batch Reactors
• Anaerobic ammonia oxidation (Anammox) process
• Microscopy techniques: Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH)

Webs of interest

• Department of Biotechnology of the TU Delft
• IWA (http://www.iwahq.org/templates/ld_templates/layout_632897.aspx?ObjectId=...)
• European Federation of Biotechnology
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