Investigador Auxiliar
> p2i Água e cidade – Transição para as cidades do futuro. Projeto-quadro da atividade do Núcleo de Engenharia Sanitária do LNEC (2023-2027 & 2015-2022)
> LIFE ReFitting – ReFitting the PLAN-DO toolbox for wider replication under the new EU wastewater directive (2026-2029)
> JTC/Water4All ReWAdd – Resource recovery from wastewater based on photo-bio-electrochemical and membrane processes with minimal chemical addition to produce added-value goods (2026-2029)
> WeRECOVER!Advancing the next-generation water desalination with engineered nanoporous carbon materials (2026-2027)
> Water4All Partnership – Water Security for the planet. Fases 1, 2 e 3 (2022-2029)
> Aqualearn – Machine learning-based digital twins for real time anomaly detection in water supply systems (2025-2028)
> ProÁguas Indústria: Programa de formação em gestão de águas residuais industriais. Plano de Ação AgIR, Águas do Tejo Atlântico, LIS-Water e LNEC, financiado pelo Fundo Ambiental (2022-2026)
> Rede CYTED RECIRCULA: Economia circular na indústria iberoamericana: Resíduos em produtos de valor acrescentado (2023-2026)
> LIFE Fitting – Demonstration of an innovative PLAN-DO toolbox for a safer, resource efficient and fit-for-purpose wastewater treatment (2023-2025)
> UP2030 – Urban Planning and Design ready for 2030 (2023-2025)
> EMPOWER+ – Carvões nanoporosos reutilizáveis projetados para tratamento avançado de água (2021-2024)
> B-watersmart – Accelerating Water Smartness in Coastal Europe (2020-2024)
> RESCCUE – RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas - a multisectorial approach focusing on water (2016-2019)
> LIFE Impetus – Improving current barriers for controlling pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants (2016-2019)
> LIFE HyMemb – Tailoring hybrid membrane processes for sustainable drinking water production (2014-2016)
> aWARE – Innovative hybrid MBR-(PAC-NF) systems to promote water reuse (2013-2016)
> TRUST – TRansitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (2011-2015)
> ChloriDec – Technology for the real-time monitoring of chlorine decay rates in drinking water systems (2012-2014, IR)
> Orientação científica de doutoramentos, mestrados e teses de licenciatura, bolsas de investigação em projetos e estágios
> Júri de teses de doutoramento e mestrado
> Revisor de revistas científicas
> Membro de Comités Científicos em congressos nacionais
> Membro de várias associações profissionais e científicas, incluindo: Ordem dos Engenheiros, Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (APESB) (membro LNEC), International Water Association (IWA) (membro LNEC), Sociedade Europeia de Membranas (EMS), Grupos Especializados de Reutilização de Água e de Tecnologia de Membranas da IWA, Associação Portuguesa de Análise Experimental de Tensões (APAET)
> Brito R.S., Mesquita E., Viegas R.M.C., Soares J., Costa C., Rosa M.J. (2026) Guidance on effective exploitation of spectroscopic techniques for assessing wastewater discharges in water bodies. Journal of Environmental Management 406, 129759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.129759
> Viegas R.M.C., Silva C., Campinas M., Paíga P., Delerue-Matos C., Costa C., Rosa M.J. (2026) A novel phenomenological model for streamlined prediction and online monitoring of organic micropollutant removal in full-scale wastewater ozonation. Desalination 628, 120060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2026.120060
>Viegas R.M.C., Figueiredo D., Mesquita E., Charrua S., Costa C., Lourinho R., Rosa M.J. (2025) Pilot-scale demonstration of advanced wastewater treatment for direct potable water reuse for beer production. Separation and Purification Technology 375, 133419 https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SEPPUR.2025.133419
>Costa J., Mesquita E., Ferreira F., Figueiredo D., Rosa M.J., Viegas R.M.C. (2023) Modeling Chlorine Decay in Reclaimed Water Distribution Systems—A Lisbon Area Case Study. Sustainability 15, 16211 https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316211
>Rosa M.J., Campinas M., Silva C., Mesquita E., R.M.C. Viegas (2023) Controlling organic micropollutants in urban (waste) water treatment by activated carbon adsorption and membrane technology, in: Clean Technologies Toward a Sustainable Future: Physicochemical, Biochemical and Biotechnological Approaches https://doi.org/10.2166/9781789063783_0141
>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 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2022.102975
>Mestre A.S., Viegas R.M.C., Mesquita E., Rosa M.J., Carvalho A.P. (2022) Engineered pine nut shell derived activated carbons for improved removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals in urban wastewater treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials 437, 129319 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129319
>Viegas R.M.C., Mestre A.S., Mesquita E., Machuqueiro M., Andrade M., Carvalho A.P., Rosa M.J. (2022) Key factors for activated carbon adsorption of pharmaceutical compounds from wastewaters: a multivariate modelling approach. Water 14(2), 166. doi.org/10.3390/w14020166
>Mestre A.S., Campinas M, Viegas R.M.C., Mesquita E., Carvalho A.P., Rosa M.J. (2022) Activated carbons in full-scale advanced wastewater treatment. Advanced Materials for Sustainable Environmental Remediation. Eds. Dimitrios Giannakoudakis, Lucas Meili, Ioannis Anastopoulos. Elsevier. Netherlands, 433-475. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90485-8.00001-1
>Costa J., Mesquita E., Ferreira F., Rosa M.J., Viegas R.M.C. (2021) Identification and Modelling of Chlorine Decay Mechanisms in Reclaimed Water Containing Ammonia. Sustainability 13(24), 13548. doi.org/10.3390/su132413548
>Campinas M., Viegas R.M.C., Coelho R., Lucas H., Rosa M.J. (2021) Adsorption/Coagulation/Ceramic Microfiltration for Treating Challenging Waters for Drinking Water Production.Membranes 11 (2) 91 https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11020091