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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 University of [snip]: Demonstrator
for Chemical Engineering
University of [snip]: Specialist
contract: teaching Microsoft Visio for industrial process and
algorithm flowsheets.
2004 [snip] / Department of
Chemical Engineering: 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.
[snip], S.L.
(Alicante, Spain):
IT manager (1 year).
2002 [snip] (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.
[snip]
(Alicante, Spain):
Technical advisor and IT manager (9 months).
1997-2000
[snip], 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
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Experienced in Process Engineering Software (ASPEN, HYSYS,
PRO/II, CHEMCAD)
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Programming for advanced process integration (Creation of Unit
Operations, COM Interfaces Hysys – Aspen / Matlab, Hysys – Aspen
/ Excel, Visual Basic)
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General Engineering Software (AUTOCAD, SOLID EDGE, VISIO)
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Mathematical Programming Environments (MATLAB, GAMS)
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Programming in Visual Basic, VBA
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Proficient in office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Access
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Proficient in Windows systems, some experience with OsX and
Linux.
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Proficient in PC hardware and TCP/IP networking.
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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 AIChE Annual 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’
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
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Enthusiast, Fast-learning, Versatile and Committed
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Secretary
of PISO,
Manchester, from sept. 2006 onwards
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Responsible
for IT in the
Spanish Federation of Chemical Engineers (FEIQ)
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Member of the driving board
of the Society of
Chemical Engineers of the Comunidad Valenciana (COIQCV) in
Spain.
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Vicepresident
of the commitee for
the creation of the COIQCV, first Official Society of Chemical
Engineering in Spain, eventually created in 2006.
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President of
AIQUA (Chemical Engineers Association of Alicante) 2004 – 2005.
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Secretary of
[snip], Voluntarios Medioambientales entre 1998 y 2004.
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Designer and Manager
of the three
official professional web pages in Spain:
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Designer and Manager
of the Spanish
Carbon Group webpage -
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Member of the Society for Chemical Industries (SCI) and
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
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Full
driving licence
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Availability:
October 2007
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References available on request |
