Dr. Ana M R B Xavier

Ana M.R.B. Xavier works at CICECO–Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal). She received her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering—Microbial Technology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1996. She is now the guest editor of special issues "Microbial Production of Added-value Products from Renewable Resources", "Microbial Production of Added-value Products from Renewable Resources 2.0", and "Renewable Resources and Biorefineries 2021", and she is an editorial board member and a section board member of MDPI's journal Fermentation and the associate editor of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology—Bioprocess Engineering. Her research interests mainly focus on biorefineries; the bioprocess of renewable resources for new products; bioethanol, lactic acid, and biopolymers' production; and laccase production, its immobilization, and biocatalysis. She has been involved in pulp and paper industry projects on the ligninolytic activity in pulp and bleaching processes, effluent cleaning processes, and residues' valorization.