Cesar Rossas Mota Filho

Cesar Mota is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at UFMG. He is the coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Plants, funded by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) and is mainly focused on increasing resource recovery from wastewater via research, improved policy and regulation. He coordinates two national wastewater surveillance networks: i) the Brazilian Network for the Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewater, which monitors community and hospital wastewaters in 10 capitals and is being developed in partnership with several sanitation companies, universities, the Ministry of Health and its national laboratories; and ii) the Brazilian Network for the Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater, which has been monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in the wastewater of 6 capitals since the early stages of the pandemic. In addition, Dr. Mota coordinates research projects funded by the Royal Society (UK) and Brazilian funding agencies. He works in the areas of water and wastewater treatment, with emphasis on resource recovery, removal of pathogens, and wastewater surveillance as an epidemiological tool. He was a lecturer at Newcastle University, from 2007 to 2012, where he coordinated projects funded by the Royal Society and the European Commission.