Dr. Juan A. Baeza is Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) since November 2019. He is in charge of the research line on nutrient removal from urban wastewater in the GENOCOV research group, Department of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering. His scientific objective is working towards a circular economy scenario in the wastewater field, developing more efficient technologies for wastewater treatment including resource and energy recovery.Dr. Baeza was Chair of the Management Committee of the IWA Specialist Group on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (2017-2022). He has published >110 SCI articles (h-index = 35).Dr. Baeza was involved in the development of more than 10 industrial applications of supervision and control, with extensive experience in programming with MATLAB/Simulink, PLCs, C and LabWindows/CVI.Main research Lines: Nutrient removal from wastewater: nitrification – denitrification, enhanced biological phosphorus removal, bioelectrochemical systems (MFC/MEC).Modelling of biotechnological processes. Control and supervision of processes: expert systems, distributed control systems.