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Dr

Tamíris Da Costa

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

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  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Biosystems and Food Engineering
  • University College Dublin, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

BIO

Dr Tamíris da Costa is an Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering, and is Programme Director of the Grad Dip in Carbon Accounting & Life Cycle Assessment. Dr da Costa holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Pampa, Brazil, as well as a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interests encompass a wide range of interdisciplinary topics and she is committed to promoting resource efficiency, circular economy principles, and environmental sustainability in agri-food systems. Her expertise lies in utilising life cycle assessment methodology to address complex problems across different fields. She possesses a particular passion for renewable energy systems, where she investigates ways to optimise their sustainability and overall impact. Additionally, Dr da Costa is dedicated to exploring food waste valorisation strategies, aiming to transform waste into valuable resources and minimise its environmental footprint. She currently leads the national "BioPyroC" project, funded by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), which aims to develop high-value bio-based products from residual agri-food biomass through pyrolysis. At the EU level, she serves as Principal Investigator in the FarmScan project, a Green ERA-Hub initiative focused on developing biodegradable sensors for soil analysis. She has also contributed as a collaborator in several European projects, including SustainFOR, SABIOS, WAFLE, NEPTUNUS, and REAMIT.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Post Doc Research Fellow Lvl I
    University College Dublin, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, Dublin, Ireland4 May 2021 - 8 Jan 2023
  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Sustainable Agri-food Systems
    University College Dublin, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, Dublin, Ireland9 Jan 2023

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Post Doc Research Felow
    University of Aveiro, Department of Environment and Planning, Aveiro, Portugal15 Jan 2020 - 1 May 2021

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Engineering
    Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    University of Aveiro
  • Master of Science (M.Sc.)
    Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa)
  • PhD
    University of Aveiro

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Consequential and IO-based life cycle sustainability assessment
    Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Portuguese
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak and understand