CV | López Barreiro Lab

UCL Department of Chemical Engineering
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom

10/2011 to 10/2015 PhD in Applied Biological Sciences: Chemistry and Bioprocess Technology, Ghent University - Belgium
10/2005 to 07/2011 MSc in Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela - Spain

09/2022 to present Lecturer in Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering, UCL - UK
05/2020 to 08/2022 Marie Curie Fellow, Delft Biotechnology Center, DSM - The Netherland
10/2019 to 04/2020 Research affiliate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
01/2017 to 10/2019 Postdoctoral associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
01/2016 to 07/2016 Postdoctoral affiliate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
10/2011 to 10/2015 Ph.D. researcher, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Ghent - Belgium
07/2008 to 07/2010 Research assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela - Spain

2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission.
2015 Grant for a stay abroad from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FWO).
2013 Research grant from the Institute of Innovation through Science and Technology (IWT) from Belgium.
2012 "Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carreira", prize awarded to the most outstanding graduate in Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela.
2012 "Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carreira", prize awarded to the most outstanding graduate in Chemical Engineering from the State of Galicia (Spain), June 2012.
2011 Postgraduate scholarship from the Fundación Barrié de la Maza (Spain) to carry out a doctoral thesis abroad.
2009 Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the Galician Ministry of Education (Spain).

2018 to 2019 Postdocs representative at the Postdoctoral Committee of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
2018 to 2019 Member of the Board of the Boston Chapter of the Association of Spanish Scientists in USA (ECUSA).
2017 Member of the scientific advisory committee of the II Joint Meeting of Spanish Scientists in USA (Boston, 2017).
2010 Member of the organization committee of the XIII Congress of Chemical Engineering in Madrid (Spain).
2009 Chairman of the XII National Congress of Chemical Engineering in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
2007 to 2009 Secretary (2007-2008) and President (2008-2010) of the Galician Association of Students of Chemical Engineering.
2007 to 2010 Member of the School Board, governing body of the Superior Technical School of Engineers of the University of Santiago de Compostela, on behalf of the students.