Catarina da Silva Reis

• 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.

• 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

• Editor of "Águas & Resíduos” journal (2016-…)
• uest 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-…),

Projects participated (nacional and international):

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).