staff
Lecturers, researchers and PhD students at CEPIMA.
CEPIMA brings together faculty, postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students from the Department of Chemical Engineering at UPC. Our work spans process systems engineering, environmental engineering, and the digitalisation of process industries.
For a list of our former members and their PhD theses, see Former members.
Lecturers and senior researchers
Moisès Graells Sobré
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UPC
Head of CEPIMA and principal investigator of the P2CE project. Research interests: process systems engineering (modelling, optimisation, planning and scheduling, process integration and supply chain management) and its application to the circular economy, renewable energy systems and wastewater treatment.
Montserrat Pérez Moya
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UPC
Research interests: advanced oxidation processes, water treatment, environmental engineering and sustainability.
Fabian Lechtenberg
Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, UPC
Research interests: process systems engineering, life cycle optimisation, and mathematical programming for sustainable process and supply chain design. Developer of the open-source PULPO framework.
Alumni professors
Antonio Espuña Camarasa
Professor of Chemical Engineering, UPC
After Prof. Puigjaner, head of CEPIMA until the end of 2025. More than 30 research projects and 90 JCR papers on the modelling, design, optimisation and control of chemical processes.
Luis Puigjaner Corbella
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, UPC
Founder of the research team that became CEPIMA in 2004, which he led for more than thirty years. Awarded the Long-Term Achievements Award of the CAPE Working Party (EFCE).
In honor of Professor Luis Puigjaner (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2011) ↗
Postdoctoral researchers
Julio Eduardo Sosa Parra
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD in Sustainable Chemistry (NOVA University Lisbon). Research interests: adsorption-based gas separation (PSA, VSA, TSA), porous adsorbents and designer solvents for capturing fluorinated gases, and process simulation of sustainable separation technologies.
PhD students
Lluc Aresté-Saló
Doctoral researcher
Data- and knowledge-driven methods for the automatic synthesis and recommendation of sustainable process pathways for waste valorisation and CO₂ upcycling, within the P2CE project. FPU fellow.
Franc González Cazorla
Industrial PhD student at GasN2
Process design and synthesis for CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol, in an industrial PhD with the company GasN2.
Yujie Li
Doctoral student
Kinetic modelling and optimisation of photo-Fenton treatment of contaminants of emerging concern, combining pilot-scale experiments with dynamic simulation and parameter estimation.
Brayan Danilo Batista Perez
Doctoral student
Working on the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater with activated carbons, including carbons made from sugarcane bagasse, and on the design and modelling of fixed-bed adsorption columns.