Luciana Prazeres Mazur

She is currently a Principal Investigator at the CETIM Technological Centre in Spain. From August 2023 to January 2025, she was a researcher at UFSC linked to the Petrobras project titled "Application of Electrooxidation Processes and Membranes to Increase the Efficiency of TOG Removal from Produced Water." Between July 2022 and July 2023, she held a postdoctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and was also part of the research team for the thematic project "Ecological Porous Materials for the Recovery and Revaluation of Metals Recovered from Contaminated Water," funded by FAPESP. From September 2017 to May 2022, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and part of the research team for the APCLEAN project ("Evaluation of Technologies for Removal of Soluble Organic Compounds from Produced Water") funded by Petrobras. She earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (20132017) in Portugal, specializing in Advanced Water Treatment Techniques. Her doctoral research focused on the removal of toxic metals from industrial effluents using marine algae as biosorbents. Her PhD abroad was funded by the DPE Program (Full Doctorate Abroad Program) through CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel). She holds a Master's degree in Process Engineering from the University of the Joinville Region (Univille, 20102012), specializing in Polymers. Her masters thesis focused on the preparation and characterization of nanocomposites of poly(L-lactic acid) and various organophilic clays. She completed her masters with an exclusive dedication scholarship funded by CAPES. She graduated in Environmental Engineering from Univille (20052009). During her undergraduate studies, she participated as a scientific initiation scholarship holder (PIBIC) for five years. In 2005, she studied the composition and distribution patterns of benthic macrofauna of the muddy banks of Mytela charruana adjacent to areas contaminated with heavy metals in Babitonga Bay. From 2006 to 2009, she worked on the synthesis, extraction, characterization, and degradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates. She also studied the degradation of various polymers in accelerated aging chambers, biodegradation in soil and aquatic environments, and actively participated in the implementation of the Sturm test (ISO 14855), which aims to analyze and certify the biodegradability and biocompostability of polymers. She has published 24 scientific articles and presented 36 papers at national and international conferences. She taught Organic Chemistry (2012) and Materials Technology (2013) for one semester in the Chemical Engineering course at Univille. She co-supervised a Master's thesis in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in Portugal, as well as a Master's thesis in Chemical Engineering at UFSC. She also served as a committee member for four undergraduate final projects (2012) in the Departments of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Univille. That earned her the publication of 41 peer-review papers, 1 book chapter, and 36 communications in conferences, with 726 citations and an h-index of 16. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)