Elsa Ajo, Beatriz Muñoz, Sergio Pérez, Daniel Echevarría and Laura Rancaño defended their final project in the Master in Chemical Engineering (UC- UPV/EHU) last March 2nd, 2018 in the University of Basque Country. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Andrés Tomás Aguayo (UPV/EHU), Dr. María Fresnedo San Román (UC) and Dr. Manuel Álvarez (UC).
Claudia Solá and Cristina González, PhD. students of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Departament of the University of Cantabria, attended the seminar “DL_Software Training Workshop 2018”, celebrated in Warrington (United Kingdom), last February 19-23, 2018.
Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz has been awarded with the research prize Juan María Parés 2017, granted by the Societal Council of the University of Cantabria.
Rafael Ortiz, master in Industrial Engineering, has joined the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department to work in the project “PEMFC-SUDOE: Sostenibilidad Energética en la region SUDOE: Red PEMFCSUDOE SOE1/P1/E0293 (INTERREG SUDOE/FEDER, UE)”, whose main researcher is Dr. Alfredo Ortiz.
Last February 19th, 2018 the members of the Council Department voted for the new Head of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department. The election took place in the conference room and Prof. Ángel Irabien was elected as the new Head of the Department.
Ana Hernández, Azucena Abejón, Sergio Castro, Aitor Marcos, Guillermo Díaz, Pedro Díaz and Sandra Sánchez participated in the “ERA CAREER DAY: Diseña tu futuro profesional”. The event took place on February 8 – 9, 2018 at the conference room of the EDUC.
Moreover, on February 12 – 13, 2018, the PhD. students of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, Marta Romay, Cristina González, Azucena Abejón, Laura Ulloa, Sergio Castro, Aitor Marcos, Guillermo Díaz and Pedro Díaz, attended the seminar “Curso Básico – Bloque I”, organized by Escuela de Doctorado of the University of Cantabria. The seminar took place at the Escuela de Doctorado of the University of Cantabria.
On February 8th, 2018, Nazely Diban, Lucía Gómez and Gema Pérez introduced the role of Chemical Engineering in the Society to students of the Special Education School Padre Apolinar, as part of the events organized by the University of Cantabria for the celebration of the Internation Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Moreover, Beatriz Gómez and Paula Ribao, participated in the event organized by the ETSIIyT in the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. They talked about their own experiences as chemical engineers in the science world.
Last February 5th, 2018 Raúl Zarca and Jenifer Gómez gave a seminar to report the outcomes of their research stays in international research institutions.
Raúl Zarca talked about Optimization of a Hybrid Membrane-Distillation Process for Polymer-Grade Propylene Production, work performed during his stay at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Carnegie Mellon University (USA) working under the supervision of Prof. Larry Biegler.
Jenifer Gómez presented her work “On Chip Polyelectrolyte Coating onto Magnetic Droplets”, developed during her stay at the School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University or Hull (United Kingdom) working under the supervision of Prof. Nicole Pamme.
Last January 30th, a group of students of the high school Marqués de Santillana, located in Torrelavega, visited our facilities. During the visit, they had the opportunity to know about different projects that are being developed in our department now and they approached and asked questions to the department researchers.
Prof. Lorenz T. Biegler, from the Chemical Engineering Department of the Carnegie Mellon University, gave the lecture “New paradigms for optimization of large-scale chemical processes”, last January 29th, 2018 at the conference room of the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The conference was organized by Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Química, de la Energía y de los Recursos.
