Nazely Diban attended the 28th Annual Conference of the European Society of Biomaterials celebrated in Athens, Greece, las September 4 – 8, 2017, where she presented the work “Highly nutrient permeable PCL scaffolds functionalized with Graphene-based nanomaterials for perfusion bioreactors in Neural Tissue Engineering”.
Murilo Leite Alcântara, PhD. student of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA, Salvador, Brasil, has obtained a grant of the Capes, foundation subordinated to the Education Department of Brasil, for a pre-doctoral research placement in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, from September 2017 to September 2018, under the supervision of Dr. Alfredo Ortiz. During this period Murilo will work in the development of new high selective membranes for the separation of CO2 using ionic liquids.
Alfredo Ortiz attended the 11th International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, celebrated in San Francisco, California, USA, last July 29th – August 4th, 2017, where he gave two oral presentations entitled “High performance facilitated transport composite membranes for real industrial olefin/paraffin separation” and “Fuel cell performance of membrane electrode assembly based on innovative polymeric ionic liquids”.
Gabriel Zarca and Raúl Zarca joined a research placement at the Chemical Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. During the stay, 12 June 2017-21 July 2017, they were working in the field of membrane process optimization, under the supervision of Prof. Lorenz T. Biegler.
Albert Barceló defended his doctoral thesis “Contribución al proceso de industrialización de la tecnología de pertracción evaporativa para el ajuste de grado alcohólico de vinos blancos y tintos”, developed at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department under the supervision of Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz and Dr. Nazely Diban, last July 24th, 2017. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Javier Bilbao (University of Basque Country), Prof. Ángel Irabien (University of Cantabria) and Prof. Jose Manuel Benito (University of Burgos).
Last July 20th, 2017 took place the election of new director board of the Association of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Cantabria – AQUIQÁN. The board positions that have been renewed are President (Manuel Álvarez-Guerra) and Vice-President (Antonio Domínguez-Ramos), secretary (Gabriel Zarca) and Treasurer (María Margallo), while Andrés del Castillo, Sandra Sánchez, Iván Merino and Jonathan Albo join as board members. Moreover, Ángel Irabien has been elected as ANQUE assembly´s representative for the next 2 years.
From 17th to 21st July, Dr. Nazely Diban and Dr. Eugenio Bringas attended the course “Professional Development for University Academic Staff” organized by Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland). This activity was performed in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme through an specific action aiming at the development of teaching skills for those lecturers teaching in English at the University of Cantabria.
PhD students of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria presented their research results in a seminar organized by the Department in order to contribute to the dissemination of their activities. The seminar took place at room 03 of the ETSIIyT of the University of Cantabria last July 18 – 19, 2017. The presentations corresponded to the research activities in the following thematic areas:
María Fresnedo San Román and Claudia Solá attended the computational chemistry course “Gaussian Workshop Schedule”, organized by Gaussian Inc, and celebrated in the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela, last July 10-14, 2017.
Prof. Ane Urtiaga was part of the academic committee for selection of a new full professor in Chemical Engineering in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, last July 4-5, 2017.
