Ana Lourenço

Ana Lourenço is a Forestry Engineer since 2004, has completed her Masters in Forest Engineering and Natural Resources in 2008 and a PhD in 2012 at the School of Agriculture, Technical University of Lisbon, presently University of Lisbon. She has been awarded in 2014 with a postdoctoral fellowship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), in 2019 a research contract and now is a Tenure assistant researcher. RESEARCH: work in the chemistry of lignocellulosic materials using a multi-analytical approach, e.g. GC/MS, Py-GC/MS, FTIR, NIR and NMR. Her focus is on integrating the resources and developing bio-based products under the biorefinery concept, the circular economy, and the zero-waste philosophy. MEMBERSHIP: She is an integrated member of the Forest Research Center (CEF), belonging to the research group ForTec: Forest Products and Biorefineries. She is also a member of the Portuguese Association of Technicians of the Pulp and Paper Industries (Tecnicelpa), Ibero-American Society for the Development of Biorefineries (SIADEB), the Red Iberoamericana de Docencia e Investigacíon en Celulosa y Papel (RIADICYP), the Portuguese Society of Forestry Sciences (SPCF) and the College of Chemistry of the University of Lisbon (CQUL). NETWORKING: To boost her knowledge and exchange experiences, she has been in four short-term missions: IRNAS with Jose Carlos del Río (Seville, 2014), INIA with Juan Carlos Villar (Madrid, 2015), Aveiro University with Dmitry Evtuguin (Aveiro, 2018, 2019), INRAE-FARE with Brigitte Chabbert (Reims, 2021), University of Barcelona with Emilia Gutierrez (Barcelona, 2023). COLLABORATIONS: with national institutions, such as Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB), National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-alimentar do Alentejo (CEBAL), University of Minho (UM), University of Beira Interior (UBI), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (PT); international, such as Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM, ES), University of Novi Sad (RS), Federal University of Viçosa (BR), Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (ET), CSIC-Madrid (ES), CSIC-Sevile (ES), CSIC-Santiago (ES), INRAE-FARE (FR), Boku University (AT). PROJECTS: During the last years, she integrated the team of 19 R&D projects (14 national and five international). At this time, she has a total of 62 articles published in international journals with scientific referees, six book chapters and 85 publications in proceedings (presented at international and national conferences) and regularly reviews for 20 scientific journals. Her h-index is 24. TEACHING: She collaborated in the teaching of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees in ISA, and was co-supervisor of one Master Degree thesis, supervisor of one Master thesis. Now she belongs to the supervisor team of one master and two Doctoral theses. Received two researchers under STSM of the LignoCost Action in 2020 and one under Erasmus+. Until 2025, her work had contributed for 7 Policy documents.