Ignacio Gracia
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
Biography
Ignacio Gracia is Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Castilla_La Mancha (Spain). PhD. in Chemical Engineering in the UCLM (1999), Marie Curie postdoctoral Fellowship in the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2002. Has devoted his scientific career to the field of supercritical fluids, focused on natural extracts, waste oil regeneration and polymer synthesis. He is currently working in the synthesis of biocompatible biodegradable polymers with medical applications. Vice president of the Spanish association for the Advancement of High Pressure Technologies (FLUCOMP). Co-author of more than 50 scientific sci publications, two patents (one in application) and ten books and chaptiers. Supervisor of four PhD’s. He worked in more than 50 research projects and 12 projects with private companies, in 22 like Head. Master in MBA (2010). Entrepreneurship price in 2010. Founder of GARLICINSA, private spin-off with a registered product: ALIBEN®
Research Interest
His current research activities focus on Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering and its applications and Research on Technologies and Processes in the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry process Engineering involving particulate systems. It focus on the techno-economic feasibility of such an industrial project within the actual market globalization context as function of parameters such as, size, reactants and products market price, market outreach and socioeconomic and environmental incentives.
