Fitxa persona

Expert in wastewater treatment technologies, focused on the research areas of nutrient recovery and anaerobic digestion of waste streams. She led the Innovation Department of a company dedicated to the management and maintenance of municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and waste treatment facilities (from 2008 to 2021), and she is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Universitat de València. She obtained her PhD in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València in the field of phosphorus recovery from wastewater. Subsequently, she joined the private sector, where she headed the Innovation Department and led an active research team working on water treatment and reuse (biological nutrient removal, anaerobic digestion processes, disinfection technologies, biogas production and upgrading). In the corporate environment, she has promoted and led the innovation process and the link between corporate strategy and customer needs. She has participated in more than 25 research projects (nationally and EU-funded), is co-author of 3 patents and 1 utility model, and has around 30 conference communications and 40 articles in scientific journals.