Elizabeth Duarte, Full Professor at ISA-ULisboa, has more than 30 years of experience in waste management strategies and bioenergy recovery. Her research concerns the development and innovation, with a focus on biowaste characterisation and on biological and chemical processes for the integration of renewable energy for agricultural sustainability. Her research vision is to mitigate climate change by defining new routes of improving resource efficiency through waste minimisation. ED has expertise in teaching in service staff, undergraduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in bioenergy, organic waste recycling, and environmental technology. ED has participated in and coordinated several organic waste management projects in Portugal, on more than 20 EU financed projects, and on projects in Brazil, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Timor, Guinea Bissau, Tunisia, and Morocco. ED is author and co-author of more than 100 publications, of which 50 are in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, more than 25 are book chapters or conference proceedings, and more than 50 are reports, popular articles in publications such as farmer’s journals. ED's peer-reviewed journal papers have been highly cited. Most of ED's publications relate to applying sustainable techniques to agro-industrial and urban waste and improving resource efficiency through bio-waste minimisation and the selection of ecologically engineered systems for pollution mitigation, contributing to a zero-waste concept.