Dr Teresa Castelo-Grande has been an AuSpire researcher at the Cancer Research Institute (GIR Citomica) and the Centre for Environmental Studies (CEADIR) at the University of Salamanca, Spain, since 2026.

From 1998 to 2001, she worked in industry as Head of a Research Laboratory and Head of a Production Unit. She has also held several consulting positions, continuing to the present day. Since 2006, she has held Assistant Professor and other academic and research positions, primarily at the University of Porto and Lusófona University in Portugal, as well as briefly at the University of Salamanca in Spain.

She graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Porto and obtained her PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering through the University of Porto–University of Santiago de Compostela homologation programme.

Since 1998, she has been involved in research, primarily in the areas of environmental protection, soil remediation and supercritical extraction. Over the past several decades, she has expanded her research involvement to include magnetic separation, magnetic classification, magnetism, electromagnetism, cryogenics, superconducting magnets, biotechnology, biomedicine, environmental remediation, water treatment, waste treatment, materials synthesis involving nano- and micromaterials and chemical engineering processes.

She has been involved in several national and international projects, totalling more than €20 million, including the highly funded MAGPRO2LIFE European project. She has published more than 60 book chapters and papers in leading international scientific journals, filed nine patents and presented her research at more than 100 conferences and congresses. She has delivered invited lectures at conferences and supervised approximately 20 master’s and postgraduate students.

Teresa regularly reviews articles for several leading scientific journals and has extensive experience reviewing European, national and international projects. She has also published several papers on pedagogical innovation in teaching and has participated as a member of several related pedagogical innovation projects.