Sustainable Development with Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy.- Modelling, Simulation and Forecasting of Energy and Carbon Markets.- Energy Efficiency.- Energy Policy, Economics, Planning & Regulation.- Environmental Pollution, Prevention & Pollution Control.- Life Cycle Assessment.- Education for Sustainable Development.

Nídia Caetano was born on November 1964, graduated and finished the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), in 1987 and March 1996, respectively. She is Coordinator Professor (from 2010) at the Chemical Engineering Department of the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic of Porto (P.Porto), where she started the teaching activity in 1992.

She was the Sub-Director of the Chemical Engineering Department of ISEP for the Infrastructures and Facilities (2014-2016), Course Director of the MSc in Sustainable Energies of the Mechanical Engineering Department of ISEP (March 2013 to June 2018) and Sub-Director of the same MSc (September 2010 to March 2013 and June2018 to June 2022).

Nídia Caetano was the Advisor of the President of ISEP for Environment/Sustainability (2007 to 2018); Vice-President of APESB (Portuguese Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering) from 2019-2020 and from 2022; President of the Fiscal Board of the OERN (Order of the Engineers the Northern Region) from 2022.

Nídia Caetano is External Researcher with LEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal, and ALiCE - Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal, and Collaborator at CIETI/ISEP/P.Porto. She funded and is the Coordinator of the Microalgae research laboratory of ISEP in 2008. She was the supervisor of several post-doctoral researchers, PhD and Master students. She has intense activity as project evaluator of national and international agencies.

Nídia Caetano is Associate Editor for Biomass of Renewable Energy (Elsevier), Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of  Algal Research (Elsevier), Review Editor in Sustainable Energy Systems and Policies (Frontiers)