MIGUEL
MAURICIO IGLESIAS

I am assistant professor of Chemical engineering at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. By training, I am a Chemical Engineer (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2006) and hold a PhD in Food Technology (Université de Montpellier, 2009). After a 4-year postdoctoral period at the Technical University of Denmark, I joined the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela as a Marie Curie IEF fellow in 2014. My research career has consistently focused on modelling approaches for solving real problems in chemical, process and bioprocess engineering. I strongly believe in the importance of joining modelling and experimentation; models orientate the experimenter and interpret results while experiments are the ultimate test for a model, algorithm or design. A big part of my research deals with the biological production of chemicals from organic waste, relies both on metabolic modelling and experimental fermentation to achieve a viable biorefinery process and, ultimately, a real circular bioeconomy.