Abbreviated CV

I graduated in Chemical Engineering in 2016 at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). That last year I did my Final Project in the laboratories of this Department on "Hydrogen Production through Biomass Pyrolysis and Steam Reforming, and the influence of the Nikel catalysts" for Laura Santamaria's Thesis. With this project I got to know this research group. In 2017, I finished a Master in Research in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Industry, Transport, Construction and Town Planning, also at the University of the Basque Country.

In September 2019 I was contracted by the Departament of Chemical Engineering of the UPV/EHU as a non-doctoral researcher to continue the same research line in which I had done my Final Degree Project (mentioned previously). That is, in order to overcome the main challenges that limit the full scale implantation of the mentioned process, such as the endothermicity of the reforming reaction and the fast catalyst deactivation, this research proposes the incorporation of oxygen in the reforming stage.

In March 2020 I obtained the Predoctoral grant from the University of the Basque Country and I continue working on this line of research. Since then I have been working on the development of the different skills that this position confers, such as: assembly and commissioning of the plant, planning and carrying out of experiments; participation in national and international conferences, where the results of the research have been presented both orally and by scientific posters; publication of articles in scientific journals; completion of an international stay at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver (Canada), where I was working in the laboratory of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the Microwave Pyrolysis group; assisting as a professor in the subject of “Experimentation in Chemical Engineering”; and, in addition, providing supervision and help to several graduate, master's students and new PhD researchers (national and international) for the development of their projects.

Currently (Year 2025), I am in the process of obtaining the title of Doctor with the thesis entitled “Potential of oxidative steam reforming of biomass pyrolysis volatiles for sustainable hydrogen production”.