Anabela Rebelo holds a PhD in Chemistry and a MSc in Industrial Chemistry, University of Beira Interior (Portugal). Senior officer at the Portuguese Environment Agency where develops research, studies, development of methodologies and scientific and technical processes. Main working areas are water reuse, risk assessment, water quality and wastewater discharges.

She is the President of the PT mirror group of the ISO TC 282 for water reuse, the national focal point in the CIS Ad-hoc Task Group on Water Reuse ( European Commission) and the PT representative for environment for the Recommendation (EU) 2021/472 related with the  systematic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in wastewaters. She is a project manager of the IMPEL Project “Wastewater In Natural Environment”. She has several publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Several participations as invited speaker in high-level conferences/workshops on circular economy and water reuse promoted by the European Commission.