Veera Koskue
About me
I have a M.Sc. (Tech) degree in Environmental Engineering and am currently working towards my doctoral degree. I'm especially interested in promoting circular economy practices and more sustainable use of our existing resources. My research aims at recovering valuable nutrients, specifically nitrogen, from wastewaters in a reusable form so that they could be recycled back to agricultural use. For this, I'm implementing both bioelectrochemical and electrochemical methods. I also have a growing interest in effective science communication and popularisation and try to continuously get better at them.
Fields of expertise
Environmental engineering, water treatment, circular economy, bioelectrochemistry
Top achievements
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Winner, Tampere University, 2021
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) People's Choice, Tampere University, 2021
Millennium Pitching Contest Finalist, 2021
Main positions of trust
Student representative, Doctoral committee of the Doctoral Programme in Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, 03-09/2019
Mission statement
My research aims at moving the wastewater treatment focus from removing nutrients to recovering nutrients in reusable forms. In addition to facilitating more efficient nutrient recycling and reuse in agriculture, this approach could simultaneously benefit the wastewater treatment facilities by reducing nutrients loads to the main process.
Research topics
Nutrient recovery from wastewaters in reusable forms using (bio)electrochemical methods; optimising nutrient recovery efficiency while simultaneously removing micropollutants (such as pharmaceutical residues)
Research unit
Research fields
Environmental Engineering
Funding
Selected publications
Koskue, V., Rinta-Kanto, J., Freguia, S., Ledezma, P. & Kokko, M. 2021. Optimising nitrogen recovery from reject water in a 3-chamber bioelectroconcentration cell. Separation and Purification Technology 264.
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.118428
Kokko, M., Koskue, V. & Rintala, J. 2018. Anaerobic digestion of 30-100-year-old boreal lake sedimented fibre from the pulp industry: Extrapolating methane production potential to a practical scale. Water Research 133, pp. 218-226.
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.01.041