Organizing Committee

Beatriz Amante García

Doctor by l'École Nationale Superieure des Télécommunications (Télécom ParisTech)  from París in 2002.

She currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the UPC in the Department of Project Engineering and Construction. During her time in Paris, she taught at Télécom ParisTech and the University Paris XII. Between 2003 – 2006 she was Professor at the European University of Madrid and in her last year she became Director of the Department of Telecommunications. The areas in which she gave training were Electronics, Electricity, Radio Systems and finally Engineering Projects. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on the automotive sector, on radar systems that can support driving steering.  In recent years, Beatriz has focused her research activities on the automotive sector and has conducted life cycle analysis, battery aging and business models studies. Further, she is carrying out solidarity projects in countries such as Burkina Faso, with a key focus on water treatment, including both wastewater and purification using natural coagulants.

Victor López Grimau

Born in Barcelona in 1976. He presented his PhD thesis in 2007 focused on the electrochemical treatment and reuse of industrial waste water. He is Associate Professor of the Department of Projects and Construction Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)-Barcelona Tech. He is researcher of the consolidated research group of Environmental Engineering (SGR ENMA) located in the Institute of Textile Research of UPC. Their research expertise is related to the development of sustainable water purification methods.

 

Lluc Canals Casals

Ph.D. by UPC in March 2016.

He holds the position of assistant professor at the UPC in the department of Projects and Construction Engineering after having finished its post-doc done at IREC (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research).

After 7 years of working in the industry and especially in the automotive sector, Lluc had the opportunity to undertake his doctoral thesis on the modelling and ageing of batteries for second life applications, being able to spend more time researching and disclosing it rather than working for others to get abusive benefits.

Further, he is a member of the campaign "Water: A right not a commodity" by Engineering Without Borders and volunteer in the platform Aiguaesvida.

Valentina Buscio Olivera

Ph.D. by UPC in December 2015.

Since 2009, she is a member of the research group ENMA-UPC (Environmental Engineering), a group consolidated and recognized by the Catalan Government. Her research activity is focused on studying new wastewater treatments to reduce the environmental impact of different industrial sectors from a circular economy point of view: reuse of water, recycling of raw materials, valorisation of waste and reduction of wastes generation.

As a result of her research activity, she is the author of a Spanish patent, 12 articles published in JCR indexed journals (7 in Q1), 4 articles in other technical journals, 2 chapter of book and more than 100 technical reports.