Projects

Currently funded projects we lead, and ongoing collaborations with other teams.

Fondecyt Regular

Removal of micropollutants and their influence on N₂O emissions and microbial communities in elemental sulfur-based SBR and biofilter systems treating groundwater

Principal Investigator
César Huiliñir Curío
Funding
ANID · Fondecyt Regular
Period
2026–2029

FONDEF IDeA I+D 2025 ID25I10071

Nuevo proceso de pretratamiento para la mejora de la deshidratación de lodos secundarios y la remoción simultánea de N, P y materia orgánica desde el líquido de filtrado

Principal Investigator
César Huiliñir Curío
Funding
ANID · FONDEF IDeA I+D
Period
2025–2027

CORFO 24CVCS-255807

Desarrollo de una nueva tecnología de electrocoagulación para la recuperación de agua en los caudales de rechazo del proceso de desalación por ósmosis inversa

Principal Investigator
César Huiliñir Curío
Funding
CORFO
Period
2024–2025

Fondecyt de Postdoctorado N.º 3250412

Assessing biofilm and elemental sulfur dynamics in a groundwater elemental sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification fixed bed reactor through computational fluid dynamics simulations coupled with digital imaging techniques

Principal Investigator
Felipe A. Carreño López
Funding
ANID · Fondecyt de Postdoctorado
Period
2025–2028

With other teams

Collaborations

Projects led by other groups in which we take part, and working links with laboratories elsewhere.

  • César Huiliñir Curío Co-Investigator Fondecyt Regular N.º 1250616 2025–2028

    Anaerobic co-fermentation of swine manure and seaweed for bioH₂, volatile fatty acids and bioCH₄ production with downstream nitrogen recovery using seaweed-modified biochar for a circular bioeconomy perspective

  • César Huiliñir Curío Co-Investigator Fondecyt Regular N.º 1241833 2024–2027

    Studying the coupling between feammox and anammox bacteria: development and optimization of new autotrophic biological nitrogen-removal pathways for wastewater treatment systems

    Principal Investigator: Eduardo Leiva

  • César Huiliñir Curío Co-Investigator Fondecyt Regular N.º 1241199 2024–2027

    Sequential nitrification – mixotrophic denitrification vs. simultaneous nitrification – mixotrophic denitrification: comparative study of technologies using Chilean zeolite as microbial support

  • Felipe A. Carreño López International collaboration 2023 –

    CFD modelling of bioclogging in porous media: how biofilm growth reshapes flow, mixing and reactive transport in the subsurface

    Dr. Verónica L. Morales' group, University of California, Davis