Luis E. Viera-Perez Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Contributed to identify and find a way to solve the contamination of military waste in Vieques. - Worked in developing the design of a conceptual bioreactor for the contamination of RDX in the Anones Lagoon.

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Attended career development workshops that aim to promote scholarship and innovation within Chemical Engineering. - Mentored first and second-year undergraduate students for a month at AIChE Professional Boot Camp. - Organized a series of 1:1 workshops on resume building, elevator pitch, and interview skills while providing continuous feedback to enhance their professional and personal development amidst COVID-19 limitations.

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Helped undergraduate students, from different academic years, in their Chemistry and Mathematics (Pre-Calculus, Calculus) homework. - Organized group and individual study sessions that increased the average final grades by 40%.

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Leading the UPR-Mayaguez Baseball team composed of 25+ players from different academic years and bachelor's degrees. - Created a mentoring development program that decreased the percent of dropouts by 90% of baseball athletes. Won the Championship title in the Liga Atlética Interamericana (LAI) in 2017-2018.

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Designed a tetrahydrofuran dehydration process that improved its solvent quality production maintaining profitability by using extractive distillation method and evaluating economic principles, cost estimation, and safety. - Modeled and optimized process using ASPEN Plus by integrating sensitivity and economic analysis and evaluating different process units.

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

- Created a system of offers and monthly payments for youth development in baseball with professional coaches, handled the business finances, and planned the budget with the owner's help. - Planned a series of strategies to optimize, improve, and increased the business profit.

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

- Collaborated in the investigation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) analysis of antimicrobial agents using different substrate types to amplify the signal of these agents in polluted water. - Developed a substrate that improves the signal measure by 30% of fluoroquinolone in pollute water using silver nanoparticles and polymers with XploRA Raman Spectrometer and Gaussian 16 computational chemistry program. - Prepared design of experiment, proposals, and weekly reports of the progress in the experiment's results.