our team
Lead Scientist
Dr. Teresa Matoso Victor
Dr Victor is a PhD in Chemical Engineering, graduate of the University of Newcastle upon-Tyne in Newcastle upon-Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM, where she also completed her Master’s degree in Sustainable Chemical Engineering (2004). Dr. Victor obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a multidisciplinary project encompassing the areas of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, publishing a thesis in 2008. Research areas included: (Chemical Engineering, Process Intensification, Chemistry; Polymerization and Catalysis, Materials Science, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Renewable Energies). Dr. Victor currently serves as Chief of Product Development for BioAgGro and also is on secondment as an associate professor at the Higher Polytechnic Institute of Technologies and Sciences (ISPTEC), Luanda-Angola.
Awards
Dr. Victor was awarded “INTERNATIONAL BEST RESEARCHER AWARD” in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, by the International Society for Scientific Network (ISSN) – International Society for Scientific Networks and the International Congress for Science and Technology (IISTAC -2022).
Published Scientific Articles
Teresa Matoso Victor, Miguel Filho, Jose Maria Samuco, Paul Kamps, Steve Bull, Jarka Glassey, Alan Claude Ward, (2022), Synthesis and Characterization of Proteins Profile of “Streptomyces coelicolor” A3 (2) Cultured Within an Inert Solid-State matRix and Submerged Fermentation, American Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 51-67. Doi: 10.11648/j.ajcbe.20220602.12
Teresa Matoso Víctor (T. M. Ndlovu), Miguel Filho, Benevides Pessela, Steve Bull and Alan Ward, (2021) Production and evaluation of two antibiotics of Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2), prodigiosin and actinorhodin under solid state fermentation, using microporous culture, Chemical Engineering and Processing – Process and Intensification 170 108685.
**Ndlovu, Teresa, M. Ward Alan C., Glassey Jarka. Eskildsen J. and Akay, Galip., (2015), Intensification of the bio-process of antibiotic production by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) in microporous culture. Materials Science and Engineering C. 49: 799–806.
Boodhoo, K.V.K.; Vicevic, M., Cartwright, C. D., **Ndlovu, Teresa, M., Toogood, E. C. (2008) Intensification of gas-liquid mass transfer using a rotating bed of porous packaging for application to a batch fermentation process “E. coli”. Chemical Engineering Journal. 135:141-150.
Prizes
Winner with the project “Intensification of Agroprocesses” at the MESCTI Fair of ideas, inventions, innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer in Luanda Angola.
MEMBER OF THE WORLD RESEARCH COUNCIL (WRC), NOVEMBER 2022
ACCREDITED REVIEWER AT AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, AS OF SEPTEMBER 2022
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MEMBER OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SOCIETY, SINCE 2006