Dr Sharon Velasquez-Orta

Before pursuing her academic career, Dr. Sharon Velasquez-Orta acquired experience in environmental industrial processes working with companies such as Nestle, J&J, P&G, Kimberly-Clark and Jumex. Since then, she has used a multidisciplinary approach to address current world challenges in areas related to sustainability, biomass valorisation and effective management of waste, with a specific focus on understanding biomass transformations.

As part of her PhD and further academic studies, she has investigated how biomass can enable energy production, bacterial monitoring and wastewater treatment across multiple applications. Her research over the past 10 years has focused on enabling the development of novel technologies such as microbial fuel cells (MFC) across a broad range of applications as well as the evaluation of new environmental technologies that can achieve both energy generation and waste remediation. She is interested in the production of renewable energy from liquid, and solid wastes by applying bioelectrochemical, biochemical and thermal techniques.