Teaching staff

MAIDER AMUTIO IZAGUIRRE

Bachelor (2006) and PhD (2011, worthy of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award) in Chemical Engineering at the University of the Basque Country. My research activity started when I joined the research group Catalytic Processes and Waste Valorization to carry out the Doctoral Thesis on different strategies to progress towards the scale-up of the biomass pyrolysis process. I continued my professional activity as a postdoctoral researcher, until in October 2014 I obtained a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Rrom 2019 I occupy an Associate Professor position.



My research activity focuses on waste valorization (biomass, tires, plastics ...) by pyrolysis and gasification in order to obtain high value added products. We are currently working on the pyrolysis of various biomass materials and the use of catalysts to improve the properties of the products obtained, as well as the gasification and catalytic reforming of waste to produce hydrogen. I have participated in 18 Research Projects, being the Principal Investigator of two of them, in addition to various actions aimed at the transfer of technology and technological innovation, through collaboration with companies and technology centers. This research work has led to 62 publications in indexed journals (JCR), which have received 2384 citations in WoS (h = 31).