Director de investigación y desarrollo / R&D Director

• Sep 2022 - Present

Head of Environmental & Industrial Biotechnology

• Jan 2021 - Sep 2022

Biotechnology Project Manager/Bioprocess development and Valorization into high-value-added products

• May 2018 - Jan 2021

o ENZYCLE (BBI-887913). European Project Coordinator (www.enzycle.eu).o ENZYCLE Funded Project Coordination (BBI-2019-SO2-R3) (Overall Budget: 6,39 Million €). Proposal Technical Coordinator.Project management related to biotechnology and bioprocess development and their scaling from laboratory to pilot / industrial plant. Development of industrial composting evaluations. Development of new applications for the valorisation of organic residues (OFMSW, food and agricultural wastes). Drafting and preparation of national and European proposals on the subject matter of valorization and biotechnological processes. Design and development of new efficient and cost-effective bioprocesses for microorganism fermentation and production (probiotics, biostimulants, biofertilizers and biopesticides), building blocks production, biomaterials, additives, antioxidants and antimicrobial compounds. Show less

R&D and Production Manager / Biotechnology

• Sep 2016 - Apr 2018

Production Manager: Design and Development of biological reactors. Improvement and optimization of bioprocesses. Development of associated documentation. Microbial culture and fermentations. Cultivation of PGPR microorganisms (Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria). Formulations Quality. Development and validation of methodologies in HPLC. Responsible for R&D: Development of new biostimulants and biocides for ecological and sustainable agriculture. Development of new phytosanitary methodologies for microbial control and plant health. Development of new R&D lines. Development of new products. Creation and Monitoring of Projects. Show less

Predoctoral Researcher (FPI Grant)

• Jul 2011 - Jul 2015

Development and validation of several HPLC-MS, GC-MS, HPLC-TOF methods. Determination, identification, characterization and purification of secondary metabolites and sugars (ABEE derivatization method) by HPLC-MS, GC-MS, TOF, NMR. Isolation of RNA/DNA, PCR, gene expression analysis (RT-qPCR). Cloning. 3D modeling of proteins. Identification, characterization and purification of proteins. Cytotoxicity assays in animal cell cultures. Bioinformatics (sequence alignments programs, Bioedit, MEGA, CLUSTALW2, databases comparison, BLAST). Show less

Researcher. Analyst.

• Sep 2009 - Jul 2011

Development and validation of several HPLC-MS, GC-MS methods. Determination, identification, characterization and purification of secondary metabolites by HPLC-MS, GC-MS. Analysis by optical, fluorescence and electron microscopy (transmission and barride). Microbiological cultures (bacterial and fungal cultures). Characterization of microbial cultures. Fermentations. Scaling. Metabolites production.

Alumno interno

• Sep 2009 - Jul 2011

Caracterización de enzimas. Electroforeésis PAGE. Purificación y cuantificación de proteínas.

Research Stay

• May 2013 - Sep 2013

Gene expression analyses by qPCR. Primers designing. Cloning in E. coli. Recombination and heterologous expression of proteins in yeast of CYP450. Vector construction. Gene expression analyses by qPCR. Primers designing. Cloning in E. coli. Recombination and heterologous expression of proteins in yeast of CYP450. Vector construction.

Alumno interno

• Sep 2006 - Jul 2008

HPLC: Análisis y desarrollo de nuevos métodos. Identificación, caracterización y cuantificación de mico toxinas y compuestos fenólicos. Cultivo "in vitro" de hongos y bacterias. Cultivo "in vitro" de plantas. Micropropagación. HPLC: Análisis y desarrollo de nuevos métodos. Identificación, caracterización y cuantificación de mico toxinas y compuestos fenólicos. Cultivo "in vitro" de hongos y bacterias. Cultivo "in vitro" de plantas. Micropropagación.