Nuno Faria

Nuno Torres Faria

assistant researcher

0-2564-2015

iBB Group: 2brg

nuno.faria@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: Bioprocess Development, Renewable Resources, Circular Economy, Non-Conventional Yeasts, Bioeconomy Innovation

Short Bio:

He is a researcher and an invited assistant professor at his department. He received his degree in Biomedical Engineering from Universidade do Minho, Portugal, and earned his PhD in Bioengineering in 2014 from Lisbon University, Instituto Superior Técnico, and the MIT-Portugal Program, in collaboration LNEG and MIT. His research focuses on the holistic vision of bioprocess development to produce added-value, such as biosurfactants, enzymes or fuel precursors, from non-conventional yeasts and microalgae, combining the use of renewable resources, circular economy concepts, and sustainable applications as part of significant advancements in the innovation in bioeconomy and its development in society.

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Research Focus:

Research focused on advancements on bioeconomy, on microbial added value products formation through circular concepts and sustainable, renewable resource utilization.

MERO: Marine oil spills: Green biological Emulsifiers agents’ production and autonomous Robotic tools for response optimization (MIT-EXPL/ISF/0115/2017)

CRUISE: Pseudozyma spp. based biorefinery: Membrane bioreactors for production of aviation fuel and biosurfactants for bioremediation (PTDC/AAG-TEC/0696/2014)

Nascimento, M.F.; Keković, P.; Ribeiro, I.A.C.; Faria, N.T.; Ferreira, F.C. Novel Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Approaches for Microbial Biosurfactants Downstream Processing. Membranes 2023, 13, 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010081

Nascimento M.F., Barreiros R., Oliveira A.C., Ferreira F.C., Faria N.T. (2022) Moesziomyces spp. cultivation using cheese whey: new yeast extract-free media, β-galactosidase biosynthesis and mannosylerythritol lipids production. Biomass conversion and Biorefinery. DOI10.1007/s13399-022-02837-y

Sun W, Vila-Santa A, Liu Na, Prozorov T, Xie D, Faria NT, Ferreira FC, Mira NP, Shao Z (2020) Metabolic engineering of an acid-tolerant yeast strain Pichia kudriavzevii for itaconic acid production. Metabolic Engineering Communications, 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00124

Faria NT, Marques S, Ferreira FC (2018) Production of xylanolytic enzymes by Moesziomyces spp. using xylose, xylan and brewery’s spent grain as substrates. New Biotechnol. doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.11.001

Farooq, U., Szczybelskib, A., Ferreira, F.C., Faria, N.T., Netzer, R., A novel biosurfactant-based oil spill response dispersant for efficient application under temperate and arctic conditions. ACS Omega 2024 9 (8), 9503-9515. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c08429

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