Diogo A. M. Alexandrino is a researcher at CIIMAR and an Invited Adjunct Professor at the Department of Environmental Health of School of Health (Polytechnic of Porto). Diogo’s main research interest focuses on studying the physiology and metabolism of the bacterial degradation/transformation of (poly)fluorinated pollutants. He’s also highly interested in harnessing bacterial processes for pollution control, to mitigate anthropogenic pressures and to improve the circularity of various waste streams, either by using axenic bacteria, tailored bacterial consortia or by merging bacterial metabolism with synthetic processes.