Carla Andreia Freixo Portela
Centro Tecnologico de Bioetanol, Brazil
Biography
Carla Andreia Freixo Portela has a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering since 2013 from the University of Minho and University of Auckland, where she worked on the reconstruction of the genome scale model of the pathogen Enterococcus faecalis. She currently works as a Post-doc Researcher in the biofuels area, namely for butanol production where she explores in silico strategies to optimize the solvent production using clostridia species.