Field of Expertise
Nanocelluloses (LCNF, CNF, CNC), Biorefinery processes to upgrade forest and agro-food residues and industrial side-streams, bio-based nanocomposites, bio-based barriers and packaging materials
Expertise
The applicant has 18 years of research experience in 3 different countries (Spain, Italy and Sweden) in both environments: academic (Polytechnic University of Valencia-UPV, University of Bologna-UNIBO, Royal Institute of Technology,Stockholm-KTH, Skövde University,Sweden-HIS and The Swedish University of Agricultural Science-SLU) and industrial (Tecnological Institute of Food Sciences, Textile Research Independent Association, Research Institute of Sweden-RISE). She is a multidisciplinary scientist with focus on several disciplines, i.e. food science/technology, wood and fiber technology, polymer material science & technology, biotechnology and physical chemistry. She obtained 2 MSc, one in Chemical Engineering-UPV,Spain and a second one in Materials and Sensors for Environmental Technologies (UNIBO-Italy, UPV-Spain and KTH-Sweden). She was granted a PhD in Materials Engineering at UPV and 2 post-doctoral Swedish fellowships at KTH. She has worked 6 years as independent researcher/lecturer, acquiring as Principal Investigator / Applicant ~1.95 Million€. As Associate Professor-tenure track position at HIS she was in charge of stablishing a a new research and educational programme on bio-based circular polymeric materials. She was also awarded by an ÅForsk grant allowing her expanding her research group at KTH. At SLU, the applicant started to develop her major research ambition by applying her expertise in two research areas (food and biopolymeric materials); designing biological structures with targeted properties as an alternative to animal protein-based food and fossil-based plastics and barrier coatings. Nowadays, she is a senior researcher at RISE, and in this last 2 years her reserach portafolio is composed by 17 mutidisciplinar projects of around 2.9 Million €. She has been appointed as a PI of a Project founded by governalmental national founds (480.000€) to promote the development of sustainable barrier products and as a board research member in the RISE Research Programme on barriers with direct contact with companies (Tetra Pak, DS Smith, Klabing, UPM, Valmet), which pay the specific research. Quality indicators of her research carrer are: 36 peer-reviewed papers (80% ranked as Q1 and 60% as D1), being first author in 10(28%), last author in 8 (22%) and corresponding in 13(37%) of them; h index 17; 62 contributions to congresses; supervision of 25 students of different levels including 7 PhD thesis; participant in 62 conferences and in 42 research projects (value of 6.8 Million €), being principal investigator/project leader in 9 of them; teaching experience as lecturer and course responsible of undergraduate level.