Mary Barrios Hernandez
PhD fellow
Biography
Mary Luz Barrios-Hernandez was born in San Jose, Costa Rica. She is an Environmental Engineer (2011) from the Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica and has an MSc in Urban Water Sanitation from UNESCO-IHE (2016). Currently, she is at the end of her PhD research at the Water Supply, Sanitation and Environmental Engineering Department at IHE Delft, in partnership with the Biotechnology Department at TU Delft. Her promotors are Damir Brdanovic and Mark van Loosdrecht and her co-promotor is Tineke Hooijmans.
Topic
Assessment of the effects of warm temperatures, faecal sludge co-treatment and pathogen removal on Aerobic Granular Sludge systems.Research Summary
Dissertation
- Pathogen removal in aerobic granular sludge systems.
Research Interests
- Biological Wastewater Treatment and Sanitation
- Aerobic Granular Sludge
- Pathogen removal
- Molecular Biology
Funding Source
Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica (www.tec.ac.cr)
Publications
Barrios-Hernandez, M.L., Bettinelli, C., Mora-Cabrera, K., Vanegas-Camero, M.-C., Garcia, H., van de Vossenberg, J., Prats, D., Brdjanovic, D., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. and Hooijmans, C.M. 2021. Unravelling the removal mechanisms of bacterial and viral surrogates in aerobic granular sludge systems. Water Research, 116992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116992
Barrios-Hernandez, M.L., Buenano-Vargas, C., Garcia, H., Brdjanovic, D., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. and Hooijmans, C.M. 2020a. Effect of the co-treatment of synthetic faecal sludge and wastewater in an aerobic granular sludge system. Science of The Total Environment, 140480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140480
Barrios-Hernandez, M.L., Pronk, M., Garcia, H., Boersma, A., Brdjanovic, D., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. and Hooijmans, C.M. 2020b. Removal of bacterial and viral indicator organisms in full-scale aerobic granular sludge and conventional activated sludge systems. Water Research X 6, 100040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2019.100040
