Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she awarded the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 40), 2 books and 18 book chapters. She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 12 Elsevier’s books. Her main research interests are ligninolytic enzymes, bioreactor design, wastewater treatment, bioremediation, biodegradation, solid-state and submerged fermentation, immobilisation of microorganisms and enzymes and valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass.

Research Areas: Environmental Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology, Biochemical Engineering, Applied Microbiology