Anouk F. Duque, PhD

Anouk F. Duque was born in Canada and grew up and studied in Oporto, Portugal.  Anouk F. Duque graduated in Microbiology from Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (ESB-UCP), Portugal, in 2003. After working in industry, she returned to academia and participated as a researcher in several projects. She completed her PhD in 2012 in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from ESB-UCP under the topic biological wastewater treatment. During her PhD, she was at Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, as an invited researcher. After her PhD, she moved to Lisbon and started her post-doctoral research at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (FCT-UNL), Portugal. Since then, she focused her research on waste valorisation under a biorefinery concept towards a circular economy in collaboration with several companies: Super Bock Bebidas S.A., Logoplaste, and The Navigator Company.