Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz participated in the scientific days “Coronavirus. Retos y soluciones para la covid-19 desde los ámbitos de la Ingeniería, la Ciencia y la Sanidad”, organized by the Reales Academias de Ingeniería, Nacional de Medicina, Nacional de Farmacia y Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. The scientific days took place on January 19 and 20, 2021. Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz chaired the debate “La contribución de la ciencia al conocimiento de la COVID-19.
Christian Fernández Maza, Master in Chemical Engineering, has recently joined the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, where he is working on the research project “Separaciones microfluidicas de elevado rendimiento. Retos y Oportunidades (RTI2018-093310-B-I00) (MCI/AEI/FEDER,UE)”, led by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz.
Ana María Hernández Pellón, PhD. in Chemical Engineering, has recently joined the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, where she is working on the research project “LUV2INNOVATE: Sistemas innovadores para el tratamiento de corrientes acuosas mediante procesos fotoquímicos con LED UV-C”, led by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz.
Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz participated in the radio programme “A vivir Cantabria”, on Cadena Ser, last December 26th, 2020. During the programme, Inmaculada talked about the main aims of the project LIFE-3E.
You can listen to the interview on: http://rtv.seguimedia.es/_BD/2020/DIC/26/cserstd-20201226-sab-1200-1400-01_20201226_055348_00.mp4
Jennifer Gómez and Jara Laso have been nominated to receive the outstanding doctorate prize in the area of Engineering, among thesis defended in 2018.
Lucía Gómez, Guillermo Díaz and Raquel Ibáñez participated in the 2020 Edition of the initiative Amenturate. They delivered the workshop entitled “Blue Energy: Obteniendo energía sostenible del mar”, through Teams app, on December 15th, 2020.
Laura Ulloa Guntiñas defended her doctorate thesis “Towards Circular Economy in the management of spent acids: metals recovery using chelating resins”, developed in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, under the supervision on Dr. María Fresnedo San Román and Dr. Eugenio Bringas. The academic event took place on December 11th, 2020 through Microsoft Teams application. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz (University of Cantabria), Dr. Montserrat García (Politechnic University of Valencia) and Dr. María Antonia Pérez (University of Murcia).
Several members of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department participated in the International Congress on Membranes & Membrane Processes 2020, celebrated virtually on December 7-11, 2020.
Ane Urtiaga chaired the session “Environmental Remediation”. Futhermore, she delivered the talk “NF/RO as key technology in the remediation of groundwater impacted by PFAS” and presented a poster entitled “PCL/graphene hollow fiber membranes as a novel scaffold for co-cultures of endothelial cells and astrocytes in biomedical research”. Marcos Fallanza delivered the keynote entitled “High performance composite hollow fibers for butanol recovery by pervaporation, and chaired two sessions: i) “Electro-membrane processes” and ii) “Pervaporation and membrane distillation”. Lucía Gómez delivered the talk “Predicting the influence of divalent ions on energy harvesting by reverse electrodialysis”, while Gabriel Zarca presented a poster entitled “Membrane separation of low global warming potential refrigerants using composite polymer ionic liquid membranes”.
