Curriculum Vitae

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Professional Situation

Assistant Researcher

Academic and Scientific Degrees

• PhD in Environmental engineering (2016), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.
• Master in Environmental engineering (2008), University of Algarve.
• Environmental Engineer (2006), University of Algarve.

Areas of Research / Interest

• Performance assessment and benchmarking of water and wastewater treatment plants
• Life cycle assessment
• Drinking water and wastewater treatment
• Energy efficiency in urban water cycle
• Strategic asset management
• Control of contaminants of emerging concern
• Smart monitoring and digital tools development
• Water Oriented Living Labs

Research and Professional Activity

• Member of the expert group “Digital Water Systems Management” da Water Europe (2025 - …)
• Editor of "Águas & Resíduos” journal (2016-2023)
• Guest Editor for Water special issue on "Efficient Water and Energy Management in Urban Water Systems" (2021-2022)
• Portuguese delegate for ISO/TC282 Water Reuse (2016-…)
• Portuguese delegate for ISO/TC 224 Drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems and services. Working Group 19 Energy management (2026-…)
• Member of SC3/CT90 (Utilização de águas residuais tratadas/Sistemas urbanos de água) (2016 - …)
• Member of CT150 – Gestão Ambiental. SC5 Avaliação do Ciclo de vida (2026 - …)

Projects participated (nacional and international):

• 2026-2029: LIFE ReFitting: ReFitting the PLAN-DO toolbox for wider replication under the new EU wastewater directive (coordination team)
• 2026-2029: ReWAad: Resource recovery from wastewater based on photo-bio-electrochemical and membrane processes with minimal chemical addition to obtain added value goods (coordination team)
• 2025-…: Água-Mãe Living Lab. Founding partners AdTA-CML-LNEC
• 2023-2025: LIFE Fitting: Demonstration of an innovative PLAN-DO toolbox for a safer, resource  efficient and fit-for-purpose wastewater treatment (coordination team)
• 2022-2029: Water4All Partnership: Water Security for the planet
• 2020-2024. B-watersmart:  Accelerating Water Smartness in Coastal Europe. H2020-EU.3.5.4. &  H2020-EU.3.5.2.2, Grant agreement ID: 869171 (Co-coordinator of tasks  T1.4 and T6.3)
• 2018-2021: Avaler+ Assessment of energy efficiency and sustainability in urban water services
• 2017-2020: iEQTA: National Initiative for Energy, Water Quality and Treatment (Co-Coordinator and responsible of WWTP and IAM themes)
• 2016-2019: LIFE IMPETUS – Improving current barriers for controlling pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants
• 2014-2015: WaCCliM – Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation
• 2014-2016: LIFE HyMemb: Tailoring hybrid membrane processes for sustainable drinking water production
• 2011-2015: TRUST - TRansitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow
• 2009-2014: PIP DHA_NES_5 "Tratamento de água e de águas residuais”
• 2009-2011: PASt21 – The Portuguese Initiative for Performance Assessment of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
• 2007-2009: PAS – Performance Assessment of Water and Wastewater treatment plants
• 2008-2009: ETAR Lagos – Technical-scientific studies for diagnosis the operation of the Lagos wastewater treatment plant
• 2007-2009: ETA21 – Performance assessment and optimisation studies for Águas do Algarve water treatment plants

Other activities

• Supervision of master's theses and internships
• Coordination of, or participation in, the organization of technical-scientific events and training activities
• Member of Scientific Committees and session chair/moderator at national and international conferences
• Reviewer for scientific journals
• Teaching short courses (7–21 contact hours) on water treatment

Relevant Publications

PhD Thesis

• Silva Reis C.  (2016). Assessing and Improving Wastewater Treatment Performance. A  Contribution to the 3rd Generation of the Assessment System.  Doutoramento em Engenharia do Ambiente. Universidade de Lisboa,  Instituto SuperiorTécnico, Lisboa.

Books

• Rosa  M.J., Campinas M., Viegas R.M.C., Mesquita E., Silva C. (2024). LIFE  IMPETUS Technical Guidelines for improved control of pharmaceutical  compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants. Deliverable of LIFE  Impetus project (LIFE14 ENV/PT/000739). LNEC. Lisboa. 66 pp. ISBN:  978-972-49-2331-4
• Loureiro D., Silva C., Cardoso M. A.,  Alegre H., Cabral M., Covas D., Rosa M. J. (2021) Avaliação da  eficiência energética nos serviços urbanos de águas. Guia para  diagnóstico, priorização de alternativas, monitorização e revisão do  plano de ação, Guia técnico elaborado no âmbito o projeto Avaler+,  co-financiado pelo FAI. Lisboa, dezembro
• Cardoso M. A., Rosa M.  J., Brito R. S., Silva C., Beceiro P., Jorge C., Alegre H., Martinho G.,  Pina J., Silveira A., Alves A. V., Brito J., Ramos M., Carrega M.  (2021) Guia técnico de avaliação da qualidade dos serviços de águas e  resíduos prestados aos utilizadores. 4.ª geração do sistema de  avaliação”. ERSAR, Lisboa, dezembro
• Campinas M., Viegas R.M.C.,  Silva C., Rosa M.J. (2016) Technical Guidelines of PAC/MF – Powdered  Activated Carbon/Ceramic Microfiltration for Drinking Water Production.  Deliverable of LIFE Hymemb. LNEC, Lisboa. ISBN: 978-972-49-2299-7

Published book chapters

• Rosa  M.J., Silva C. (2024). Nova DARU – Perspetivas e desafios futuros. In  Academia da Água: a construir o futuro. Ed J. Cardoso Gonçalves. APRH -  Associação Portuguesa dos Recursos Hídricos, Lisboa. ISBN  978-989-8509-38-3. pp. 61-66.
• Rosa M.J., Campinas M., Silva  C., Mesquita E., Viegas R.M.C. (2023). Controlling organic  micropollutants in urban (waste)water treatment by activated carbon  adsorption and membrane technology. In Clean Technologies towards the  development of sustainable environment and future. IWA book chapter. 40  pp. https://doi.org/10.2166/9781789063783
• Rosa M.J., Silva C.  (2023). Origens de água independentes da precipitação – Reutilização. In  Livro Branco do Regadio Público. DGADR. Submissão de contributos a  convite da Senhora Ministra da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
• Ribeiro  R., Silva C., Rosa M.J. (2018). Framework for energy management in  small-size, decentralized wastewater treatment plants. In Sanitation  Approaches and Solutions and the Sustainable Development Goals. Eds J.S.  Matos, M.J. Rosa. Technical course 08. ERSAR, EWA, APESB. Lisbon. ISBN:  978-972-98996-8-3, pp. 369-383.
• Silva C., Alegre H., Rosa M. J.  (2015). Introduction to energy management in wastewater treatment  plants. Chap 3 In Sewage Treatment Plants: Economic Evaluation of  Innovative Technologies for Energy Efficiency. Eds K.P. Tsagarakis, K.  Stamatelatou. IWA Publishing. London. ISBN: 9781780405025 (eBook), pp.  33-55. https://doi.org/10.2166/9781780405025 (open access 2020).
• Vieira  P., Silva C., Rosa M. J., Alegre H., Lucas H., Sancho R., Ramalho P.  (2008). A PI system for drinking water treatment plants – framework and  case study application. In Performance Assessment of Urban  Infrastructure Services: Drinking water, wastewater and solid waste. Eds  E. Cabrera Jr, M.A. Pardo. IWA Publishing. London. ISBN 1843391910, pp.  389-402.

Papers with scientific refereeing

• Silva C., Viegas R.M.C., Faria G., Campinas M., Araújo R., Costa C., Rosa M.J. (2026) Forecasting the Removal of Chemical Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Activated Sludge Treatment—A Practical, Site-Calibrated Model Supporting Implementation of the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive Recast. Water 18 (20), 2531.
• Silva C., Viegas R.M.C., Faria G., Costa C., Rosa M.J. (2026) Life Cycle Assessment and Comparative Cost Analysis of Removing Contaminants of Emerging Concern from Urban Wastewater by Activated Sludge Treatment and Ozonation. Water 18 (19), 2382.
• Campinas M., Vaz-Moreira I., Viegas, R.M.C. Mesquita E., Ribeiro D., Ruivo A., Soares J., Paíga P., Delerue-Matos C., Faria G., Silva C., Costa C., Manaia C., Rosa M.J. (2026) Full-scale multipurpose ozonation in urban wastewater with strong textile input: removal of colour, micropollutants, pathogens and antimicrobial resistance indicators. Desalination 639, 120539.
• Saoudi C., Benzerra A., Berreksi A., Igriufa M., Merah F., Silva C. (2026) A decision support tool for assessing wastewater treatment plant management. The case study of Bejaia, Algeria. Environment Protection Engineering 52 (2) 5-23.
• Viegas R.M.C., Silva C., Campinas M., Paíga P., Delerue-Matos C., Costa C., Rosa M.L. (2026) A novel phenomenological model for streamlined prediction and online monitoring of organic micropollutant removal in full-scale wastewater ozonation, Desalination 120060
• Ribeiro R., Teixeira P., Silva C., Freitas C., Rosa M. J. (2026) Tackling Urban Water Resilience: Exploiting the Potential of Smart Water Allocation in the Lisbon Living Lab. Water 18 (3) 337
• Cardoso  M. A., Brito R. S., Silva C., Rodrigues S., Rodrigues R., Costa A.,  Cardoso J., Jorge C., Alegre H., Rosa M. J. (2023) Quality of urban  water services provided to users. Assessment system and the Portuguese  path through four generations, lessons learned and new challenges.  Sustainability 15 (21) 15273
• Cassidy J., Silva T., Semião N.,  Ramalho P., Santos A. R., Feliciano J. F., Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2023)  Integrating reliability and energy efficiency assessment for pinpointing  actionable strategies for enhanced performance of urban wastewater  treatment plants. Sustainability 15 (17) 12965
• Silva C.,  Almeida C. M. M., Rodrigues J. A., Silva S., Coelho M. R., Martins A.,  Lourinho R., Cardoso E., Cardoso V. V., Benoliel M. J., Mesquita E.,  Ribeiro R., Rosa M. J. (2023) Improving the pharmaceutical compounds  control in two activated sludge wastewater treatment plants: key  operating conditions and monitoring parameters. Journal of Water Process  Engineering 54, 103985.
• Campinas M., Viegas R. M. C., Almeida  C. M. M., Martins A., Silva C., Mesquita E., Coelho M. R., Silva S.,  Cardoso V. V., Benoliel M. J., Rosa M. J. (2022) Powdered activated  carbon full-scale addition to the activated sludge reactor of a  municipal wastewater treatment plant: Pharmaceutical compounds control  and overall impact on the process. Journal of Water Process Engineering  49, 102975.
• Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2022) A Comprehensive  Derivation and Application of Reference Values for Benchmarking the  Energy Performance of Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment. Water 14  (10) 1620
• Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2022) A treatment  reliability-based method for supporting infrastructure asset management  of wastewater treatment plants. Water 14 (78) 1106
• Silva C.,  Rosa M. J. (2021) A Practical Methodology for Forecasting the Impact of  Changes in Influent Loads and Discharge Consents on Average Energy  Consumption and Sludge Production by Activated Sludge Wastewater  Treatment. Sustainability 13 (21) 12293
• Silva C., Almeida C. M.  M., Rodrigues J. A., Silva S., Coelho M. R., Martins A., Alves R.,  Cardoso E., Cardoso V. V., Benoliel M. J., Rosa M. J. (2021) Occurrence  and seasonality of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewaters in two  Portuguese regions. Urban Water Journal 18 (6) 465–478
• Campinas  M., Viegas R. M. C., Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2021) Operational performance  and cost analysis of PAC/ceramic MF for drinking water production:  exploring treatment capacity as a new indicator for performance  assessment and optimization. Separation and Purification Technology
• Campinas  M., Silva C., Viegas R. M. C., Coelho R., Lucas H., Rosa M. J. (2021)  To what extent may pharmaceuticals and pesticides be removed by PAC  conventional addition to low-turbidity surface waters and what are the  potential bottlenecks? Journal of Water Process Engineering 40, 101833
• Silva  C., Rosa M. J. (2020) Performance assessment of 23 wastewater treatment  plants - a case study. Urban Water Journal 17(1) 78–85
• Loureiro  D., Silva C., Cardoso M.A., Mamade A., Alegre H., Rosa M.J. (2020) The  Development of a Framework for Assessing the Energy Efficiency in Urban  Water Systems and Its Demonstration in the Portuguese Water Sector.  Water 12(1)
• Silva C., Rosa M. J. (2020) Performance assessment  of 23 wastewater treatment plants - a case study. Urban Water Journal  17(1), 78-85, doi: 10.1080/1573062X.2020.1734634
• Loureiro  D., Silva C., Cardoso M.A., Mamade A., Alegre H., Rosa M.J. (2020) The  Development of a Framework for Assessing the Energy Efficiency in Urban  Water Systems and Its Demonstration in the Portuguese Water Sector.  Water 12(1). 14 pp. doi: 10.3390/w12010134
• Campinas, M.; Viegas,  R.M.C.; Silva, C.; Sousa, I.; Coelho, R.; Costa, L.; Lucas, H.; Rosa,  M.J.. 2017. "Tratamento de água com carvão ativado em pó/microfiltração  cerâmica (PAC/MF) – quando e onde?", Águas e Resíduos 2, 17 - 29.
• Ribeiro,  R.; Silva, C.; Rosa, M.J.. 2017. "Estratégia para recuperação de  fósforo de águas residuais urbanas", Águas e Resíduos 2, 38 - 50.
• Silva  C., Saldanha Matos J., Rosa M.J. (2016). Performance indicators and  indices of sludge management in urban wastewater treatment plants. J.  Environmental Management 184 (2) 307-317. doi:  10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.09.056
• Silva C., Saldanha Matos J., Rosa  M.J. (2016). A comprehensive approach for diagnosing opportunities for  improving the performance of a WWTP. Water Sci. & Technol, 74 (12)  2935-2945. doi: 10.2166/wst.2016.432
• Silva C., Matos J. S, Rosa  M.J. (2016). Estratégia para o desenvolvimento da 3.ª geração do sistema  de avaliação de desempenho de ETAR, Águas&Resíduos 1 (70-82). doi:  10.22181/aer.2016.0107
• Silva C., Quadros S., Ramalho P., Alegre  H., Rosa M. J. (2014). Translating removal efficiencies into operational  performance indices of wastewater treatment plants, Water Research 57,  202 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.03.025
• Silva C., Quadros  S., Ramalho P., Rosa M. J. (2014). A tool for a comprehensive assessment  of treated wastewater quality, Journal of Environmental Management, 1 -  7. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.03.028
• Silva C., Ramalho P.,  Quadros S., Alegre H., Rosa M. J. (2012). Results of ‘PASt21’ – the  Portuguese initiative for performance assessment of water and wastewater  treatment plants, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 12(3), 372  - 386. doi: 10.2166/ws.2012.004
• Quadros S., Rosa M. J, Alegre  H., Silva C. (2010). A performance indicators system for urban  wastewater treatment plants, Water Science and Technology, 62: 2398 -  2407.

280+ technical and scientific publications, 132 communications and 28 tools

Other scientific and technical Activities

Taught short course

• Abastecimento  de água e gestão de águas residuais e pluviais e Tratamento de águas  residuais (2019). Módulos ProAguas - Programa avançado de gestão de  serviços de águas (in Portuguese).
• Estratégias de controlo de  agentes biológicos resistentes e de subprodutos da oxidação química no  tratamento de águas (2013), LNEC, APESB, APRH (in Portuguese).
• Curso de Avaliação de Desempenho de ETA e ETAR (2011), LNEC/APESB/APRH (in Portuguese).