Visiting Members

Cristina Prieto

PhD Student

PhD student at Complutense University of Madrid

Stay: 1 September to 21 December 2015

Project: Scale – up of the supercritical fluid extraction of emulsion technology using a supercritical fluid extraction column.

Current: Use of supercritical fluids for the formation of nano and microparticles with application in the pharmaceutical and food industry.

Education:

Degree in Chemical Engineering by Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

Final Year Degree Project: Production plant of carbon dioxide and hydrogen for feeding, from combustion gases of wood residues.

Master in Industrial Processes Engineering by Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Thesis: Study on n-hexane-water emulsions with non-toxic surfactants and its possible extrapolation to supercritical CO2.

Victoria Saprina

BSc

Master Student at D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Department of Chemical cybernetics and automatisation of chemical processes

Stay: 13th April 2015 to 28th May 2015.

Project: Development of hybrid aerogels with mucoadhesive properties to be applied as drug delivery systems (IBET-TUHH transnational collaboration)

visaprina@gmail.com

Esther de Paz

Post-doc

PhD in Chemical Engineering

University of Valladolid, High Pressure Process Group

1^stStay: 15 July to 15 Setember 2010

2^ndStay: 1 February to 30 of November 2015

Research interests:
- Formulation of natural active compounds using supercritical fluid technologies.
- Extracts from grape marc: encapsulation and product characterization.
- In vitro bioactivity assays.

Education:
- Degree in Chemical Engineering, University of Valladolid, Spain (2008).
- Master in Investigation of Process Engineering and Systems, University of Valladolid, Spain (2009).
- International PhD in Process Engineering and Systems, University of Valladolid, Spain (2013).
- PhD: Studies of process intensification for the development of hydrophilic and hydrophobic β-carotene formulations.

Career:
- Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBET (present).

- Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at FeyeCon Development and Implementation B.V. (Weesp, Netherlands), (2014)

esther.paz@itqb.unl.pt

Victor Martin

PhD Student at University of Valladolid, High Pressure Group

Stay: 1st January of 2015 to 31st March 2015.

Project: Green synthesis of nanoparticles and formulation with supercritical fluids.

victor.m.v@itqb.unl.pt

Marta Fraile

PhD Student at University of Valladolid, High Pressure Group.

Stay: 26 September to 30 December 2011

Project:"Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery by PGSS".

Current work: Preparation of emulsion and Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Emulsions.

martafraile@itqb.unl.pt/marta.fraile@gmail.com

Salima Varona

PhD Student at University of Valladolid, High Pressure Process Group.

Stay: 15 Jully to 15 Setember 2010

Project:"Supercritical impregnation of lavandin essential oil in modified starch and antimicrobial activity of Lavandin oil formulations"

Current work: Supercritical fluid extraction from emulsion

salimavarona@gmail.com

António Montes

PhD Student, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cádiz, Spain.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Food Technology and EnvironmentalTechnologies.

Soraya Rodríguez Rojo

Asistant Lecturer at University of Valladolid, High Pressure Process Group.

Stay: 1 July 2012 - 31 December 2012

Previous Stays: 1 July 2009 - 30 September 2009. 15 January 2010 - 7 May 2010
Project: Strategies to produce hybrid particles (polymer-polymer and polymer-lipid) by supercritical fluids for drug delivery applications
Current work: Solubility measurements of hydrophobic drugs in polymers in colloidal systems. Postdoc at ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

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