Sandra Esteves - Professor in Bioprocess Technology for Resource Recovery: Energy and Materials, University of South Wales

Sandra Esteves is a Professor in Bioprocess Technology for Resource Recovery: Energy and Materials at the Sustainable Environment Research Centre, University of South Wales. Sandra has 25 years’ experience in biotechnology research, development, and full-scale deployment. She has successfully secured and led a large number of collaborative R&D projects with over £15M of external funding from a wide range of sources including EU, the UK Research Councils, UK Government funding bodies, Innovate UK, OFWAT, the Welsh Government, and direct industrial income from key companies such as TATA Steel, Wales & West Utilities, Welsh Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent, Veolia and ARUP.

Sandra is the founder and director of the Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (www.walesadcentre.org.uk) which since its inception in 2008 has supported over 300 companies including SMEs and continues to provide R&D support to the Anaerobic Digestion industry in the UK and internationally, policy developers and regulators. She is also an advisor to the European Biogas Association as well as national trade associations.