Industrial PhD embedded in the HORIZON2020 project "SCALIBUR - Scalable technologies for urban biowaste recovery". ➤ Solid-state fermentation for the production of biopesticides from the residual solid fraction after an enzymatic hydrolysis of biowaste to obtain sugars.⦿ Project managment and planning⦿ Experimental design and execution of experiments: → Characterization and handling of different organic municipal solid waste (biowaste and sewage sludge) → Bioreactors operation and optimization: solid-state bioreactors of 0.5L to 100L (packed-bed) → Enzymatic hydrolysis of biowaste using complex enzymatic cocktails → Optimization of Bacillus thuringiensis sporulation → Fermentation with mixed cultures including microbial characterization → Solid samples analysis (biodegradability and physicochemical characteristics)⦿ Literature review and state-of-the-art analysis⦿ Supervison of bachelor and master student projects⦿ Writing and reporting in international indexed journals⦿ Oral presentations at national and international level⦿ Technical reports and deliverables writing⦿ Team work with international project consortium⦿ Project proposals writing

Internship at the Process and Systems Engineering Centre (PROSYS)➤ Collection of data for the construction of a model to predict flavor production in beer fermentation

Master Thesis collaboration with the Carlsberg Research Laboratories at the Yeast & Fermentation department. ➤ Evaluation of non-conventional yeast for beer bioflavouring.⦿ Experimental design⦿ Microbial phenotypic characterization (microarrays)⦿ Cultivation of yeast (batch bioreactors from 0.25L to 2L)⦿ Flavor compounds analysis (gas chromatography)⦿ Data analysis and reporting of results

Erasmus+ internship at the Bionanoscience department. ➤ Study the isolation of a membrane protein and its reconstitution inside lipid nanodiscs using styrene-maleic acid copolymer.⦿ Cultivation of E.coli and expression of recombinant protein.⦿ Membrane protein purification and analysis (kinetic spectrophotometry, size exclusion chromatography and electron microscopy).