Andrea Zille, phD

Andrea Zille, phD

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Andrea Zille graduated in Environmental Science with Biochemistry specialization from the University of Venice (Italy) in 2000. Later, in 2005, he completed a PhD in Textile Chemistry Engineering at the University of Minho (Portugal) financed with an individual FCT grant working in enzymatic oxidation processes applied to textile materials. Between 2006 and 2011 he had two postdoctoral periods funded by two individual FCT Post-doctoral grants. He participated as team member in several European FP6 projects and COST actions. From January 2012 to December 2015, the University of Minho at the Centre for Textile Science and Technology (2C2T) hired him for a 4 years contract as Assistant Researcher in the scope of FCT's "Ciência 2008" program. In April 2017 he was hired under the FCT national call “Investigador FCT” (IF –FCT 2015) as Associate Researcher of the 2C2T. He has skills in chemical and enzymatic surfaces functionalization of natural and synthetic polymers and deep knowledge in atmospheric plasma surface modification and biopolymers production and characterization. Nowadays, he leads the investigation line “Bio- and nano-technology applied to materials” consolidating his research line on the antimicrobial and antifouling properties of enzyme- and nano-coated polymeric materials. He has experience in enzymatic degradation of wastewaters, removing of heavy metals from wastewaters using cyanobcateria, production of elctrospun membranes for water filtration. From 2017 he is Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the textile greenhouse fluorinated gas emissions chapter in the IPCC refinement 2019.

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Education: PhD

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

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