Short Bio

Jesús Palma is Senior Researcher in the Electrochemical Processes Unit of IMDEA Energy Institute since April 2008 . He was graduated in Chemistry by Autonoma University of Madrid with the speciality of Electrochemistry (1986), PhD by the same university (1994) and Executive MBA by Instituto de Empresa of Madrid (2001). From 1988 to 1991 made his doctoral thesis in the Institute of Ceramics and Glass of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). From 1992 to 2008 he worked in the Research and Development Centre of Tecnicas Reunidas S.A., where he was promoted from Process Engineer, to Project Manager, Department Director and finally to Deputy Division Director. His main fields of activities are the electrochemistry and hydrometallurgy. Among his research activities are the generation of energy with fuel cells, the electrochemical synthesis and destruction of organic and inorganic compounds, and the decontamination and recycling of industrial residues and effluents. He is specialised in industrial research, process design and scale-up from laboratory to industrial scale, through the design and operation of prototypes and pilot plants and the techno-economic feasibility studies. He has collaborated in about 40 research projects and feasibility studies funded with private and public money, managing about one half of them. He has been involved in 5 projects within the Framework Programmes of Research and Technology Development of the European Union; in 3 of them he has been work-package leader.