Please join us in welcoming Joaquim Salleras to MATGAS as a Research Project Manager.
Quim joined MATGAS in November 2010 as an Air Products employee.

Joaquim read Chemical Engineering at  the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, graduating in 2001. In the following years he worked in the water treatment field as project engineer.
During this time he completed a MBA on "Production Engineering and Management in Industrial Plants" at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona which allowed him to make an outstanding step forward in his professional career.

Since 2005 he has been living abroad, working as Project Management in various fields of production for several international companies. From the headquarters in Germany Joaquim moved to different factories in Europe and America in order to implement the production optimization projects he was in charge of.
Thanks to his wide international experience in Project Management, Joaquim will strengthen the research project management activities and expand external relations at MatGas.

We welcome him at MATGAS and wish both, MATGAS and Quim, a very successful teamwork.

Please join us in welcoming Alicia Arce to MATGAS as a Research Associate.

Alicia joined MATGAS at the end of October after completing her PhD at the Department of Automation and system Engineering of the University of Seville on “Advanced Control for Fuel Cell Systems“. During her PhD, Alicia visited the University of Michigan, Ann Arbour and the Imperial College London where she extended her knowledge on the design and optimization of fuel cell control systems. She complemented the experimental work on polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) with numerical approaches to develop optimal operational strategies for fuel cell based vehicles.

In her new position at MATGAS Alicia will be working on long-life testing of new Hydrogen PEMFC working at high temperatures (100-120C) for combined heat and power (CHP) applications, in the framework of the european project LoLiPEM.

Welcome to MATGAS, Alicia!

Please join us in welcoming Santiago Builes to MATGAS as a Research Assistant.

Santiago Builes is a Chemical Engineer from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2007 Medellín, Colombia). He is currently doing his PhD in Materials Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). He started his PhD work in November 2007 with a grant from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He has joined MATGAS in November 2010 through a Talent grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. 

For his PhD Santi will continue working on molecular simulations to predict the behaviour of adsorption of greenhouse gases under the supervision of Dr Lourdes Vega.

Welcome to MATGAS, Santiago!

Please join us in welcoming Gabriel Blejman to MATGAS as a Research Assistant. Gabriel joined Matgas at the end of February 2011.

Gabriel holds a degree in Biology from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and a Master’s degree in environmental studies, industrial ecology line, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Before joining MATGAS he worked in several NGO’s, related to environmental protection and education, as well as for the University Ramon Llull, where he was in charge of developing the sustainability plan of the institution. He also  worked for Lavola as a consultant in the area of Life Cycle Assessment.

Over the years, Gabriel has developed a great interest in the innovation and developing of new sustainable processes, and most of all in the environmental impact of their whole life cycle, reason why he is currently pursuing his PhD in MATGAS on “Life Cycle Analysis of new sustainable industrial processes”.

Welcome, Gabriel!