Prof. Cristina Cavinato is Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics since Dec 2021. Her research and development activity concern chemical and process engineering for organic waste valorisation and wastewater treatment related to the anaerobic digestion of civil/industrial/agricultural organic waste (sludge, biowaste, manure, winery waste) for energy (hydrogen and methane production) and the dark fermentation of solid organic matrices for chemicals production. Other research activities concern microalgae and purple bacteria exploitation for wastewater/digestate treatment and biogas-upgrading for biobased compounds production. Besides being the co-author of n.4 patents, since 2009, she has authored and co-authored 55 papers in international journals (H index of 25, source Scopus) and more than 80 papers published in conference proceedings. She is the coordinator of the Research Institute for Green and Blue Growth in the Global Challenges Research Hub at Ca' Foscari University.