José Luis Higón Calvet

Energy Area Leader

José Luis was born in Valencia in February 1965. He received the Architect degree from the Universitat Politécnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2004. Since his incorporation to the UPV in 1997 he carried on his research work within different groups. Member of the research structure 'Institute of Heritage Restoration' (IRP-UPV). The research projects that have been involved so far serve a dual role, with commonalities. On the one hand, research projects on the enhancement of the heritage and its culture and value, and moreover, research projects about energy transfer on buildings and sustainability.

Alternating his academic and research activity with professional activity. Member of the Forum for Sustainable Building of Valencia, attached to the table theme 'Strategies for Sustainable Design'. Author of several books on Descriptive Geometry and issues relating to the sustainability on building.

Borja Badenes Badenes

Borja was born in Valencia in 1980. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering in 2010 at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV). He has carried out his Final Degree Project entitled "Development of a cost estimation tool for the implementation of a geothermal HVAC system in the residential sector" at the company Energesis Home S.G. S.L., being awarded the second prize of Bachelor Theses of 2011, convened by the Chamer of Industrial Engineers of the Valencian Community (CV). Afterwards, he did postgraduate master in Research in Mathematics at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2013, where he carried out his Final Master Project entitled "Thermal Modeling of a thermoactive pile and experimental validation", obtaining the qualification of Excellent (10) and awarded the second prize in the I Competition of Energy Efficiency of FULTON Chair Company (2014).

Currently he is working on a Horizon 2020 european project named “CHEAP AND EFFICIENT APPLICATION OF RELIABLE GROUND SOURCE HEAT EXCHANGERS AND PUMPS —CHEAP-“ whose main objective is to develop more efficient and safe shallow geothermal systems and the reduction of the installation costs, job that he combines with teaching classes of Hydraulic Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV). Previously, he has worked on two projects funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Union under the FEDER fund, within the framework of INNPACTO 2011. The first project named “GEODUCTO”, was aimed at developing a system for thermal boards in viaducts to improve their conservation and increase their lifetime, by using geothermal energy and avoiding the use of molten salts. The second project is “PITERM”, which aimed to characterize thermomechanical thermal piles, fostering new design techniques.

Diego Alarcón Correa

Diego was born in Quito-Ecuador in September 1988. He received the Electric/Electronic engineer degree from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in 2012, and the M.S. degree in Mathematical Research from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2015.

Now he is a PhD student in mathematics at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), working on the field of public lighting based on LED technology.

Mónica Cynthia Hernández Luna

Mónica was born in Mexico in August 1987. She received the Engineering degree in Comunications and Electronics from the Universidad de Guanajuato (UG), Guanajuato, Mexico in 2011 and she graduated in Master in Industrial Physics Engineering from the Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León (UANL), Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 2015.

Nowadays, Monica is a PhD student in Mathematics at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), working on the field of lighting and energy audits. Her research interests include the area of numerical simulation of physical and engineering problems, mainly focusing on the luminaries design, building lighting analysis and proposals to improve the energy consumption of them. She is also interested in optimization problems in the area of Fiber Optic Sensors.

Roberto Robledo Fava

Roberto Robledo was born in Mexico in 1990. He obtained the Physics degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México in 2013. In the same university he obtained his master degree in Industrial Engineering Physics, in 2015.

Nowadays Roberto is a PhD student in applied mathematics at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), he works developing the thermic and energy study of buildings, aiming to contribute reducing the energy consumption and unnecessary expenses. His research interests include the area of numerical simulation of variables related with the energy expense in different constructions. He has also worked and has interest in the field of Optical Physics, especially in developing fiber optic sensors.

Daniel Gamermann

Bio-Systems Area Leader

Daniel was born in 1979 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received his bachelor degree from Universidad de Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2002. In 2005 he obtained the German Diplom degree from the University of Bonn and in 2010 his Ph.D degree from the University of Valencia.

His Ph.D research has been on hadron physics and nowadays his research interests are synthetic biology, metabolic network engineering and systems biology.

Julián Triana Dopico

Julián was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, in 1983. He obtained his degree in Biochemistry (2007) from University of Havana, Cuba, followed by Master Forestry Sciences Master degree (2011) from University of Pinar del Río, Cuba, and a PhD in Mathematics (2014) from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He was appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Pinar del Río from 2007 to 2015. Nowadays, he is on Salesian Polytechnic University in Guayaquil (Ecuador), where he joined to the department of Industrial Engineering and founded an interdisciplinary research group in applied mathematics.

His research interests are in the field of systems biology, specifically, metabolic modelling, the in silico analysis of this metabolic networks models and the design of metabolic engineering strategies to improve bio-production of high added value molecules.

María Siurana Paula

Maria was born in Valencia in 1988. She received her Chemical Engineering degree in 2011 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), and her Biotechnology Master degree in 2012 from the Universidad de Alicante.

She is currently doing her PhD on systems biology and hydrogen production in cyanobacteria at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She has been also participant and coordinator of Valencia's team of the iGEM competition hosted by the MIT.

David Fuente Herráiz

David was born in Valencia in 1983. He received his degree in Chemical Engineering in 2010 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and has recently joined a Master degree in Biostatistics.

David's PhD topic deals with the dynamic modelling of cyanobacterial photosynthesis of cells grown in photobioreactors, putting special stress on the effect of light quality on photosynthetic electron chain. He is also one of the Valencia UPV iGEM team coordinators.

Ramón Jaime Infante

Ramón was born in Pinar del Rio in 1984. He received his degree in Computer Engineering in 2008 from the Pinar del Rio University (UPR) and his Master degree in New Technologies for the Education in 2011 from the same university.

He is a professor and the head of the computer science department at UPR. He is currently doing his PhD on simulation methods for the optimization of biological objective functions at the Universidad Politècnica de València.