Francisco Valero Barranco, PhD Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Dr. Francisco Valero is professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research career has focused on Biochemical Engineering, especially in the fields of Bioprocess Engineering, Production of Recombinant Proteins in the cell factory Pichia pastoris, monitoring modelling and control of bioprocesses and Applied Biocatalysis (lipases).

He has co-lead the Bioprocess Engineering and Applied Biocatalysis Research Group and he has experience as project manager for public and private projects (40).

Dr. Valero has published over 125 scientific papers in refereed journals, 15 book chapters and has supervised 25 PhD theses.