Prof. Dr. Janaína Oliveira Gonçalves is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the Coast. She completed her BSc studies in Food Science and Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande in 2012, and her MSc and PhD studies in Food Science and Engineering at the University of Rio Grande in 2018. Her research interests include wastewater treatment, adsorption, nanotechnology, kinetics, reaction kinetics, heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst characterization, catalyst synthesis, material characterization, and nanomaterials.