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Catarina Marques is a Senior Research Fellow at LSBU with 18 years’ experience working on funded research projects in food, refrigeration and district heating and cooling. Catarina has worked simultaneously in industry and academia through an industrial CASE award PhD and two knowledge transfer partnerships between LSBU and Adande Refrigeration. She won an Innovate UK business leader of the Future award and managed Adande’s Engineering department leading the development of award-winning products. Catarina is the president of Careers in Refrigeration a working group from the International Institute of Refrigeration and a fellow and trustee of the UK Institute of Refrigeration.
Research interests
Catarina has published papers and conference papers covering a wide range of topics from food science to refrigeration, acoustics, district heating and cooling and smart local energy systems (SLES). She is the Project Director (PI) for Transport, Industrial and Commercial Refrigeration a consortium project funded by the Department for Energy Secury and Net Zero. Catarina was the Manager (Co-I) for the GreenSCIES consortium project funded by Innovate UK. GreeSCIES is a SLES that integrates heat (ambient loop district heating and cooling network), renewable power and low carbon mobility (electric vehicles). Catarina was Co-I in the Bankenergi project, which developed an end-to-end energy-trading platform. She is Co-I in DeltaPhi, a project investigating the decarbonisation of low temperature process heat industry.
Catarina completed her PhD at London South Bank University in 2012, on the novel design and performance enhancement of domestic refrigerators with thermal storage. This research was awarded the Ted Perry award by the Institute of Refrigeration in 2012. She worked in the refrigeration industry from 2006 to 2018 and maintained strong bonds with academia, completing an industrial CASE award PhD and two knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs) over this period. The first KTP was on acoustics, reducing the noise of a commercial refrigerator. In the second KTP Catarina developed a novel chilling and tempering cabinet capable of both chill and rapidly warm up food ingredients. Due to this successful project, Catarina won the 2015 Business Leader of the Future award, from Innovate UK. Catarina led the Engineering department of Adande Refrigeration for 3 years, overseeing the design, testing and certification of the Adande products for the UK and international markets, developing award-winning products.
Catarina is the president Careers in Refrigeration (CaRe) a working group from the International Institute of Refrigeration that aims to make refrigeration more visible to the public and inspire a young generation to join this field. Since CaRe inception in 2016, Catarina has organised ten networking events at international conferences in Europe, Asia, the US, Canada and New Zealand.
Catarina is a Fellow and a trustee of the Institute of Refrigeration and a member of the following IOR committees:
- Papers and Publications: carries out peer reviews of papers published in the IOR proceedings.
- SIRACH planning group: organises workshops on the topics of refrigeration, heating technology, energy storage, and end-user energy demand.
Catarina is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Food and Drink committee since 2019.
Catarina completed her PhD at London South Bank University in 2012, on the novel design and performance enhancement of domestic refrigerators with thermal storage. This research was awarded the Ted Perry award by the Institute of Refrigeration in 2012. She worked in the refrigeration industry from 2006 to 2018 and maintained strong bonds with academia, completing an industrial CASE award PhD and two knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs) over this period. The first KTP was on acoustics, reducing the noise of a commercial refrigerator. In the second KTP Catarina developed a novel chilling and tempering cabinet capable of both chill and rapidly warm up food ingredients. Due to this successful project, Catarina won the 2015 Business Leader of the Future award, from Innovate UK. Catarina led the Engineering department of Adande Refrigeration for 3 years, overseeing the design, testing and certification of the Adande products for the UK and international markets, developing award-winning products.
Catarina is the president Careers in Refrigeration (CaRe) a working group from the International Institute of Refrigeration that aims to make refrigeration more visible to the public and inspire a young generation to join this field. Since CaRe inception in 2016, Catarina has organised ten networking events at international conferences in Europe, Asia, the US, Canada and New Zealand.
Catarina is a Fellow and a trustee of the Institute of Refrigeration and a member of the following IOR committees:
- Papers and Publications: carries out peer reviews of papers published in the IOR proceedings.
- SIRACH planning group: organises workshops on the topics of refrigeration, heating technology, energy storage, and end-user energy demand.
Catarina is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Food and Drink committee since 2019.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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