EDUCATION

2004 - EuroPhD, University of Manchester with a European Marie Curie EST fellowship: "Particulate Solids Handling for Biorefinery Integration": Customisation of HYSYS to create a process engineering basis to design competitive biorefineries: modelling and creation of solids-processing unit user operations, as well as the creation of a general module to automatically perform value analyses on the different streams in flowsheets. This involves the programming in Visual Basic within HYSYS and the use of ActiveX technologies to establish interfaces between HYSYS and Matlab / Excel.

2004 Finished PhD courses at the University of Alicante (Spain).

2003 Chemical Engineer, University of Alicante. Second best marks of my year.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

2006 Advanced Separation Technologies in Chemical Engineering (50h), TU Berlin, Germany.

Industrial Risk Assessment in Chemical Plants and Oil Refineries. HAZOP.(20h). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

2004 Polymerisation Processes (8h), University of Alicante.

2003 Dilution Thermodynamics (30h) University of Alicante.

Optimal Design of Batch Processes (10h), University of Alicante.

Practical Workshop on Control Systems (15h). AIQUA. University of Alicante.

2002 Quality Assessment - ISO 9001:2000 (30h). Calma Consulting. Alicante.

Prevention of Occupational Risks (30h). Calma Consulting. Alicante.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

2006 Universityof Manchester: Demonstrator for Chemical Engineering

Universityof Alicante(Spain): Specialist contract: teaching Microsoft Visio for industrial process and algorithm flowsheets.

2004 CEMEX/Department of Chemical Engineering (University of Alicante): Researcher for 'Energy Recovery from Dry Sludges in Clinker Furnaces': Development of the in-situ sampling systems and analytical methods to study toxic compounds in the coincineration of dry sludges within cement production. 1-year project.

TD Proyectos, S.L. (Alicante, Spain): IT manager (1 year).

2002 DegussaAG ( CAPE Department, Frankfurt, Germany): 3 month internship: Investigation of the new Equation Oriented strategies implemented in Aspen 11.1. Beta-tester for Degussa for Aspen 12.1.

JTD Consultores (Alicante, Spain): Technical advisor and IT manager (9 months).

1997-2000 Terra Virens, Environmental Volunteers: Coordinator of groups of 20 people with different background for forest surveillance in the south of Spain. 1 month every year.

LANGUAGES

English High Level. Advanced English (50 hours) 2003. First Certificate in English - Grade A, 1999. Currently living in England for the last three years.

German Basic Level. Intermediate course at the University of Manchester (2005). Basic course (120h) at the University of Alicante (2000). 3 months living and working in Germany.

Catalonian High Level.

Spanish Mother tongue.

IT SKILLS

· Experienced in Process Engineering Software (ASPEN, HYSYS, PRO/II, CHEMCAD)

· Programming for advanced process integration (Creation of Unit Operations, COM Interfaces Hysys - Aspen / Matlab, Hysys - Aspen / Excel, Visual Basic)

· General Engineering Software (AUTOCAD, SOLID EDGE, VISIO)

· Mathematical Programming Environments (MATLAB, GAMS)

· Programming in Visual Basic, VBA

· Proficient in office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

· Proficient in Windows systems, some experience with OsX and Linux.

· Proficient in PC hardware and TCP/IP networking.

· Design and management of complex web systems (HTML, PHP-CMS, SQL)

PRIZES AND GRANTS

2004 - Granted a prestigious 3-year European Marie Curie EST fellowship to do my PhD at the University of Manchester.

2002 Awarded a Juan Gil Albert prize for my Degree Final Project, 'Design of a Vapour Ejection Refrigeration System'.

2000 Granted a collaboration fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports for the research 'Liquid-Vapour Equilibrium in Binary Homogeneous Systems'.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS

2006 AIChEAnnual Meeting (San Francisco, USA): Oral presentation.

Process Integration Research Consortium (Manchester, UK): Poster Presentation.

Review of the book 'Biorefineries: Industrial Processes and Products' for the engineering magazine TCE.

Coauthor of the chapter "Cereals and Baking" for the book, 'Process integration for the Food Industry", which will be published in 2007.

Coorganizer of the 'Bubbles in Food 2' congress, in Windermere (UK).

2005 Entered the entrepreneurs competition 'Biotechnology YES' www.biotechnologyyes.co.uk

Process Integration Research Consortium (Manchester, UK): Poster Presentation.

SCI Process Engineering Day (London, UK): Oral presentation and poster.

2002 IX Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering: Poster based on my Degree Final Project.

OTHER INTERESTING DATA

· Enthusiast, Fast-learning, Versatile and Committed

· Secretary of PISO (Process Integration SOciety), Manchester, from sept. 2006 onwards

· Responsible for IT in the Spanish Federation of Chemical Engineers (FEIQ)

· Member of the driving board of the Society of Chemical Engineers of the Comunidad Valenciana (COIQCV) in Spain.

· Vicepresident of the commitee for the creation of the COIQCV, first Official Society of Chemical Engineering in Spain, eventually created in 2006.

· President of AIQUA (Chemical Engineers Association of Alicante) 2004 - 2005.

· Secretary of Terra Virens, Voluntarios Medioambientales entre 1998 y 2004.

· Designer and Manager of the three official professional web pages in Spain: www.ingquimica.com, www.feiq.es and www.coiqcv.com.

· Designer and Manager of the Spanish Carbon Group webpage - www.gec.org.es

· Member of the Society for Chemical Industries ( SCI) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE)

· Full driving licence