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Resume - Dr. Madeira

Professional Experience

2023 - current

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

2022 - 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Analytical Chemistry, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

2020 - 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

2014 - 2020

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, USA

Education

2016 - 2020

PhD in Environmental Engineering

The University of Arizona, USA

2017 - 2018 

College Teaching Certificate

The University of Arizona, USA

2014 - 2016 

MS in Environmental Engineering

The University of Arizona, USA

2008 - 2013

BS in Environmental Engineering

Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil

Teaching Experience

  • Instructor of Record: Water and Wastewater Engineering - Spring 2024 and 2025, Fall 2024 and 2025 - The University of Texas at El Paso

  • Instructor of Record: Environmental Processes - Spring 2025 - The University of Texas at El Paso

  • Guest Instructor: Remediation of Contaminated Sites – Spring 2022 – Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

  • Guest Instructor: Applied Microbiology – Fall 2020 and 2021 – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

  • Guest Instructor: Microbiology for Engineers – Fall 2018 and 2019 – University of Arizona, USA

  • Guest Instructor: Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management and Wastewater Treatment Design – Spring 2018 – University of Arizona, USA

  • Instructor: Summer Engineering Academy 2017 and 2018 - Development of activities and lectures related to environmental engineering for high school students – University of Arizona, USA

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Madeira, C. L., Cho, J., Boisseau Gomez, R. D., & Montagner, C. C. (2025). Natural Organic Matter Decreases the Sorption Capacity of Fipronil and Its Degradation Products onto Polyethylene Microplastics: Combined Experimental and Theoretical Insights. ACS ES&T Water.

  2. Convertino, C., Frausto Hernandez, I., Pinilla, R. K., Madeira, C.L., Houghtalen, L. M., Pankow, R. M., ... & Bitner, E. C. (2024). Faculty Reflections on Implementing Servingness into Research and Teaching: How Professional Development Around Servingness Fosters Latinx Student Success. Journal of Latinos and Education, 1-11.

  3. Madeira, C. L., Acayaba, R. D., Santos, V. S., Villa, J. E. L., Jacinto-Hernández, C., Azevedo, J. A. T., Elias, V. O., Montagner, C. C. (2023). Uncovering the impact of agricultural activities and urbanization on rivers from the Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiaí basin in São Paulo, Brazil: A survey of pesticides, hormones, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, and PFAS. Chemosphere 341, 139954.

  4. de Araújo, J. C., Madeira, C. L., Bressani, A., Leal, C., Leroy, D., Machado, E.C., Fernandes, L.A., Espinosa, M. F., Freitas, G. T. O., Leão, T. and Chernicharo C. A. L. T. (2023). Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples from hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.  Science of the Total Environment 860: 160498.

  5. Fernandes, L. A., Madeira, C. L., de Araújo, J. C. (2022). Nitrogen removal based on anammox processes applied to mature leachate diluted with domestic wastewater: A review. Environmental Technology Reviews, 11(1), 243-265.

  6. Menezes, O., Kocaman, K., Wong, S., Rios-Valenciana, E.E., Baker, E.J., Hatt, J.K., Zhao, J., Madeira, C.L., Krzmarzick, M.J., Spain, J.C. and Sierra-Alvarez, R. (2022). Quinone moieties link the microbial respiration of natural organic matter to the chemical reduction of diverse nitroaromatic compounds. Environmental science & technology. 9387-9397.

  7. de Araújo, J.C., Mota, V.T., Teodoro, A., Leal, C., Leroy, D., Madeira, C. L., Machado, E.C., Dias, M.F., Souza, C.C., Coelho, G. and Bressani, T. (2022). Long-term monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage samples from specific public places and STPs to track COVID-19 spread and identify potential hotspots. Science of The Total Environment, 155959.

  8. Kadoya, W.M*, Madeira, C. L.*, Hoppe-Jones, C.*, Solsten, T., Snyder, S.A., Root, R.A., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Chorover, J. and Field, J.A. (2021) The role of manganese dioxide in the natural formation of organochlorines. ACS ES&T Water, 1(12), 2523-2530. *Authors contributed equally to this work.

  9. Madeira, C. L. and de Araújo, J. C. (2021). Inhibition of anammox activity by municipal and industrial wastewater pollutants: A review. Science of the total environment, 149449.

  10. Madeira, C. L.*, Menezes, O.*, Park, D., Jog, K. V., Hatt, J. K., Gavazza, S., Krzmarzick, M.J., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Spain, J.C., Konstantinidis, K.T. and Field, J. A. (2021). Bacteria make a living breathing the nitroheterocyclic insensitive munitions compound 3-nitro-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (NTO). Environmental science & technology. 55(9), 5806-5814. *Authors contributed equally to this work.

  11. Madeira, C. L., Jog, K. V., Vanover, E. T., Brooks, M. D., Taylor, D. K., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Waidner, L. A., Spain, J. C., Krzmarzick, M. J. and Field, J. A. (2019). Microbial enrichment culture responsible for the complete oxidative biodegradation of 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (ATO), the reduced daughter product of the insensitive munitions compound 3-nitro-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (NTO). Environmental science & technology. 53(21), 12648-12656.

  12. Madeira, C. L., Kadoya, W., Li, G., Wong, S., Sierra-Alvarez, R. and Field J. A. (2019). Reductive biotransformation as a pretreatment to enhance in situ chemical oxidation of nitroaromatic and nitroheterocyclic explosives. Chemosphere, 222, 1025-1032.

  13. Li, G., Field, J. A., Zeng, C., Madeira, C. L., Nguyen, C. H., Jog, K. V., Speed, D. and Sierra-Alvarez, R., (2019). Diazole and triazole inhibition of the nitrification process in return activated sludge. Chemosphere, 241, 124993.

  14. Madeira, C. L., Field, J. A., Simonich, M. T., Tanguay, R. L., Chorover, J. and Sierra-Alvarez, R. (2018). Ecotoxicity of the insensitive munitions compound 3-nitro-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (NTO) and its reduced metabolite 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (ATO). Journal of hazardous materials, 343, 340-346.

  15. Olivares, C. I., Madeira, C. L., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Kadoya, W., Abrell, L., Chorover, J. and Field, J. A. (2017). Environmental Fate of 14C Radiolabeled 2, 4-Dinitroanisole in Soil Microcosms. Environmental science & technology, 51(22), 13327-13334.

  16. Madeira, C. L., Speet, S. A., Nieto, C. A., Abrell, L., Chorover, J., Sierra-Alvarez, R. and Field, J. A. (2017). Sequential anaerobic-aerobic biodegradation of emerging insensitive munitions compound 3-nitro-1, 2, 4-triazol-5-one (NTO). Chemosphere, 167, 478-484.

  17. de Oliveira, C. C., Alvarenga, M. I. N., Melloni, R., Neto, J. N. P., Pinheiro, L. B. A., Melloni, E. G. P. and Madeira, C. L. (2016). Coffee crop (Coffea arabica L.) shaded with araucarias (Araucaria angustifolia L.) and their effects on macrofauna and soil physical attributes. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 9(6), 1668-1676.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  1. Domingues, R., Dias, M. A., Madeira, C. L., Starling, M. C. V., de A. Neves, T., & Montagner, C. C. (2025). Occurrence of pesticides and emerging contaminants in the Pampulha Lake: anthropic pollution of a UNESCO heritage site. In Emerging Pollutants: Protecting Water Quality for the Health of People and the Environment (pp. 11-33). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  2. Tomei, M. C., Stazi, V., de Araújo, J. C., & Madeira, C. L. (2024). Anaerobic treatment of low-strength wastewater: applicability and hygienization potential. Anaerobic Treatment of Domestic Wastewater, 3.

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