8/14/2019 Pages From Annual Report 2012v5

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/pages-from-annual-report-2012v5 1/1

51

Rui Ferreira

Marta Frolova

Haoyu Wang

My name is Rui Ferreira and Iam 22 years old. I come from

Portugal and I am at TU Delft

doing my Master Thesis in order

to obtain the degree of Master

in Environmental Engineering

from Faculty of Engineering of

University of Porto (Portugal).

I am working at the Sanitary Engineering section of

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences on SpecicMethanogenic Activity and Phosphatase Activity of an

anaerobic reactor used to treat the sludge resulting from

marine Recirculation Aquaculture Systems. My research is

supported by the project Emission Minimization of Marine

 Aquaculture Recirculation Systems (EM-MARES) carried

out by PhD researcher Xuedong Zhang who is my daily

supervisor. I am also being supervised by professor Mark

van Loodsrecht and Dr. Ir. Henri Spanjers.

I was born in 1990, in Rezekne,

that is a town on the East of

Latvia (one of the most beautiful

countries in the world). I am

studying in the 4th year out of

5 in Riga Technical University

in the bachelor study program

Heat, Gas and Water Technology

in the faculty of Civil Engineering.

I have been studying in Norwegian University of Science

and Technology as an exchange student in autumn 2010

and this year came to Delft for an internship for a time

period 20.02.2012 – 20.08.2012. Here I work together

with Ran Shang and my topic is “Rejection of EfOM

and ions from WWTP efuent water by back-washable

ceramic tight UF membranes (BCNF)”.

I really like this nice city and all the people around.

Hopefully this will be an interesting and productive 6

months and I will learn many new things.

Research exchange

I was born in 1985 in the city

of Harbin, which is named as

 “Pearl on the swan’s neck” in

China. Both my bachelor degree

(2008) and master degree

(2010) were gotten at the

major of Environmental Science

and Engineering from Harbin

Institute of Technology (HIT). Now I am a PhD candidate

at State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource &

Environment at HIT. Sponsored by Chinese Scholarship

Council (CSC), I started working at the Sanitary

Engineering section of UNESCO-IHE as a PhD researcher

for two years from December 2011. Since this February I

started doing research at TU Delft for several months. At

TU Delft, I join in a project which focuses on wastewater

treatment by using EGSB system, cooperating with DSM.

My previous studies were about microbial fuel cell (MFC)

and microbial electrolysis cell (MEC).

I like yoga very much. Moreover, I like playing chess and

enjoying movie. I got married in the summer of 2011

and my husband Yu Tao is also a PhD researcher at the

Sanitary Engineering section of TU Delft.

I am an Associate Professor

in the Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering at

the University of Auckland (UoA)

in New Zealand and am visiting

TU Delft for a period of 5 months

(February to June) as a part of

my Sabbatical leave. During

this time I will be working on the “Emerging substances:

Towards an absolute barrier (ESTAB)” project. This area

overlaps with the investigation of fate, transport, and

impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and

pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) being

carried out by me research group. Funding for my visit

to TU has been provided by De Nederlandse Organisatie

voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) via a “visitors”

grant to Prof. Jan Peter van der Hoek.

Naresh Singhal