Título da palestra: Progress in biomass catalytic pyrolysis for the production of advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals

Resumo do palestrante: David Serrano is Director of the IMDEA Energy Institute and Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rey Juan Carlos University. He is also Head of the Thermochemical Processes Unit at IMDEA Energy. Ph.D. received from Complutense University of Madrid (1990) awarded with the Extraordinary Mention. He has been Visiting Associated in the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH, 1991) and in the California University of Santa Barbara (2006). He was appointed as Associate Professor at Complutense University of Madrid (1990-1999), and subsequently at Rey Juan Carlos University. In the latter, he was appointed as Full Professor (2002) and was in charge of different management and academic positions: Coordinator of the Environmental Sciences Area (1999-2001), Vice-rector for Research and Technological Innovation (2001-2002) and Head of the Chemical and Environmental Technology Department (2002-2007). His teaching activity has been focused on subjects related to Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Energy Engineering in a number of degrees, masters and Ph.D. courses. He has participated in about 73 research projects funded by both public and private institutions, with a significant number of collaborations established with the industrial sector. He has been author of about 230 publications in scientific journals (h =62 and > 11500 citations, according to google scholar). Likewise, he has been author of more than 330 communications to congresses and scientific meetings, of 5 patents and of 4 books. He has been supervisor of 24 Ph.D. theses. He has been member of the Executive Board of the ACENET network (ERA-NET for Applied Catalysis Research in Europe) and of the “Círculo de Innovación en Tecnologías Medioambientales y Energía” (CITME). He is member of the Scientific Committee of CIESOL (Almería, Spain) and of the German Biomass Research Centre (Leipzig, Germany), president of the Spanish Group of Zeolites (GEZ) and member of the Board of Governors of the Spanish Catalysis Society (SECAT) and of the European Federation of Zeolite Associations (FEZA).