Ana Lanham

assistant professor

ADX-9727-2022

iBB Group: 2brg

ana.lanham@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: Biological wastewater treatment, Phosphorus removal and recovery, Bioreactors, Microbial ecology, Circular water economy

Short Bio:

Ana Lanham is an Assistant Professor at IST/iBB since 2022 and was a lecturer in Water Science and Engineering at the University of Bath, UK, since 2015. Her group explores the open microbiomes responsible for the environmental bioprocesses in wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Ana also has a keen interest in the conceptualization of the circular economy applied to the bioeconomy and water systems, also in terms of life cycle thinking and technology assessment. She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012) and a 5-year BEng from IST in Biological Engineering (2005).

Research Focus:

Research the microbial ecology and ecophysiology of open microbiomes responsible for environmental bioprocesses used in wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

NextGen: Towards a next generation of water systems and services for the circular economy (H2020-EU.3.5), https://nextgenwater.eu/

Runa, V., Wenk, J., Bengtsson, S,, Jones, B., Lanham, A.B. (2021). Bacteriophages in Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems: Occurrence, Characterization, and Function. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12: 73007. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.730071

De Groof, V., Coma, M., Arnot, T., Leak, D., Lanham, A.B. (2021). Selecting fermentation products for food waste valorisation with HRT and OLR as the key operational parameters. Waste Management. 127:80-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.04.023

De Groof, V., Coma, M., Arnot, T., Leak, D., Lanham, A.B. (2020). Adjusting Organic Load as a Strategy to Direct Single-Stage Food Waste Fermentation from Anaerobic Digestion to Chain Elongation. Processes. 8:1487. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8111487

Nguyen Quang, M., Rogers, T., Hofman, J., Lanham, A.B. (2019). Global Sensitivity Analysis of Metabolic Models for Phosphorus Accumulating Organisms in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. – Bioprocess Engineering, 7:234. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00234

Lanham, A.B., Oehmen, O., Saunders, A.M., Carvalho, G., Nielsen, P.H., Reis, M.A.M. (2014). Metabolic modelling of full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal sludge. Water Research. 66:283-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2014.08.036

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