Julia González, DEQ professor, renews as director of the ETSE

Julia González Álvarez has been a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1998. She coordinates the research group Process Intensification for Sustainable Development (PROSUST) and currently her research focuses on the recovery of rare and valuable metals from electronic waste and the separation of polluting industrial waste from liquid and gaseous effluents using activated carbons derived from industrial residual biomass as well as block copolymers. She has nearly 80 articles in international journals included in the JCR and eight supervised doctoral theses, and has participated as principal researcher in six research projects as well as in more than twenty contracts with companies. She has been associate editor of the Industrial Crops and Products journal since 2012. From 2013 to 2020 she was coordinator of the master's degree in Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses.