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Mexico
2025

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Environmental Sciences

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46
Citations
8973
World Ranking
6027
National Ranking
5

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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Francisco J. Cervantes is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of water science and technology, environmental chemistry, pollution, biomedical engineering, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

Frequent coauthors in their published work include Edgardo I. Valenzuela, J. Rene Rangel-Mendez, Virginia Hernández-Montoya, Miguel A. Montes-Morán, and Aurora M. Pat-Espadas.

Common publication venues where Francisco J. Cervantes has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biodegradation

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Cervantes include:

  • The role of humic substances in mitigating greenhouse gases emissions: Current knowledge and research gaps (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Humic Substances Mediate Anaerobic Methane Oxidation Linked to Nitrous Oxide Reduction in Wetland Sediments (2020), Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Global transcriptional analysis of Geobacter sulfurreducens under palladium reducing conditions reveals new key cytochromes involved (2020), Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Novel biotechnologies for nitrogen removal and their coupling with gas emissions abatement in wastewater treatment facilities (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Improved methane production from anaerobic digestion of liquid and raw fractions of swine manure effluent using activated carbon (2020), Journal of Water Process Engineering

The body of work demonstrates an emphasis on processes related to greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, anaerobic digestion, biogas production, nitrogen removal, and microbial bioremediation. This aligns with their broader engagement in environmental science efforts to improve water treatment and pollution control technologies.

Best Publications

  • Review paper on current technologies for decolourisation of textile wastewaters: Perspectives for anaerobic biotechnology

    André B. dos Santos;Francisco J. Cervantes;Francisco J. Cervantes;Jules B. van Lier

  • Impact and application of electron shuttles on the redox (bio)transformation of contaminants: a review.

    Frank P. Van der Zee;Francisco J. Cervantes

  • Competition between methanogenesis and quinone respiration for ecologically important substrates in anaerobic consortia.

    Francisco J Cervantes;Sjirk van der Velde;Gatze Lettinga;Jim A Field

  • Reduction of humic substances by halorespiring, sulphate-reducing and methanogenic microorganisms

    Francisco J. Cervantes;Frank A. M. de Bok;Tuan Duong-Dac;Alfons J. M. Stams

  • Colour removal of dyes from synthetic and real textile wastewaters in one- and two-stage anaerobic systems.

    Paulo Igor M. Firmino;Marcos Erick R. da Silva;Francisco J. Cervantes;André B. dos Santos

  • Effect of different redox mediators during thermophilic azo dye reduction by anaerobic granular sludge and comparative study between mesophilic (30 °C) and thermophilic (55 °C) treatments for decolourisation of textile wastewaters

    André B dos Santos;Iemke A.E Bisschops;Francisco J Cervantes;Jules B van Lier

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation driven by microbial reduction of natural organic matter in a tropical wetland

    Edgardo I. Valenzuela;Alejandra Prieto-Davó;Nguyen E. López-Lozano;Alberto Hernández-Eligio

  • Enhancing the electron transfer capacity and subsequent color removal in bioreactors by applying thermophilic anaerobic treatment and redox mediators

    A.B. dos Santos;J. Traverse;F.J. Cervantes;J.B. van Lier

  • Role of quinones in the biodegradation of priority pollutants: a review

    J.A. Field;F.J. Cervantes;F.P. van der Zee;G. Lettinga

  • Anaerobic mineralization of toluene by enriched sediments with quinones and humus as terminal electron acceptors.

    Francisco J. Cervantes;Wouter Dijksma;Tuan Duong-Dac;Anna Ivanova

  • Humus-reducing microorganisms and their valuable contribution in environmental processes.

    Claudia M. Martinez;Luis H. Alvarez;Lourdes B. Celis;Francisco J. Cervantes

  • Enhanced decolourisation of acid orange 7 in a continuous UASB reactor with quinones as redox mediators.

    F.J. Cervantes;F.P. van der Zee;G. Lettinga;J.A. Field

  • Thermal modification of activated carbon surface chemistry improves its capacity as redox mediator for azo dye reduction

    Luciana Pereira;Ricardo Pereira;M. F. R. Pereira;F. P. Van der Zee

  • Effect of redox mediator, AQDS, on the decolourisation of a reactive azo dye containing triazine group in a thermophilic anaerobic EGSB reactor

    A.B dos Santos;F.J Cervantes;R.E Yaya-Beas;J.B van Lier

  • Electron shuttling mediated by humic substances fuels anaerobic methane oxidation and carbon burial in wetland sediments

    Edgardo I. Valenzuela;Karen A. Avendaño;Nagamani Balagurusamy;Sonia Arriaga

  • Nitrogen removal from wastewaters at low C/N ratios with ammonium and acetate as electron donors.

    Francisco J. Cervantes;David A. De la Rosa;Jorge Gómez

  • Azo dye reduction by thermophilic anaerobic granular sludge, and the impact of the redox mediator anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS) on the reductive biochemical transformation

    A. B. dos Santos;F. J. Cervantes;J. B. van Lier

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation linked to sulfate and ferric iron reduction fuels nitrogen loss in marine sediments.

    E. Emilia Rios-Del Toro;Edgardo I. Valenzuela;Nguyen E. López-Lozano;M. Guadalupe Cortés-Martínez

  • Effects of different quinoid redox mediators on the removal of sulphide and nitrate via denitrification

    Clicerio Aranda-Tamaura;María Isabel Estrada-Alvarado;Anne-Claire Texier;Flor Cuervo

  • Graphene oxide as electron shuttle for increased redox conversion of contaminants under methanogenic and sulfate-reducing conditions.

    Alejandra Colunga;J. Rene Rangel-Mendez;Lourdes B. Celis;Francisco J. Cervantes

  • Quinones as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic microbial oxidation of phenolic compounds.

    Francisco J. Cervantes;Sjirk van der Velde;Gatze Lettinga;Jim A. Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim A. Field
Jim A. Field University of Arizona
Elías Razo-Flores
Elías Razo-Flores Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
J.B. van Lier
J.B. van Lier Delft University of Technology
Gatze Lettinga
Gatze Lettinga Wageningen University & Research
Cristóbal N. Aguilar
Cristóbal N. Aguilar Autonomous University of Coahuila
Alfons J. M. Stams
Alfons J. M. Stams Wageningen University & Research
Germán Buitrón
Germán Buitrón National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jatinder N. D. Gupta
Jatinder N. D. Gupta University of Alabama in Huntsville
Ricardo Tapia
Ricardo Tapia National Autonomous University of Mexico
Reyes Sierra-Alvarez
Reyes Sierra-Alvarez University of Arizona

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