Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro (ARLR) has significant expertise in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering. After the PhD completion, ARLR was Postdoctoral researcher (2014-18) at LSRE-LCM (FEUP), visiting researcher at Loughborough University, UK (2018), Doctoral researcher (2019-23) and Assistant researcher (2023) at LSRE-LCM. Currently, she holds an Principal researcher position at LSRE-LCM, is Executive Editor of Chemical Engineering Sciences (Elsevier) and Special Issues Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal Advances (Elsevier).

ARLR has participated as team member in several research projects and recently she was awarded with a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (ERA-ARE, Project Ref. 101039270). She is Principal Investigator (PI) of a national financed project (STAR, Ref. 2022.02842.PTDC), FEUP PI of another national funded project (ENANTIOTOX) at LSRE-LCM, and was PI of a national funded project (SAMPREP, Ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030521). Moreover, she is Portuguese representative in the Management Committee of Water4Reuse COST Action (Mainstreaming water reuse into the circular economy paradigm, Ref. CA23104).

ARLR co-authored more than 250 publications, including 10 chapters in books or in book series with peer review, more than 90 publications in international peer reviewed ISI indexed journals, and more than 150 communications in conference proceedings, having a h-index of 38. She is/was co-editor of 9 special issues of international scientific journals, and co-inventor of 2 patent applications. ARLR was distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate) in cross-field category and is on top 2% of cited scientists in the subfield of Environmental Sciences, based on the impact of Scopus citations of scientists in 2022.

ARLR has been co-/supervisor of 5 PhD students (Chem and Bio Eng PhD Program, Env Eng PhD Program, FEUP), co-/supervisor of the dissertations of 11 students from the Integrated Masters in Environ/Chem Eng/Bioengineering at FEUP, as well as the research work of 3 Postdocs, 2 visiting Postdoc, 9 PhD visiting students (Chem Eng, FEUP), and many granted researchers and undergraduate students.