José Antonio Sánchez Pérez

Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Almería. He has been involved in 24 national and international R&D projects and has leaded 12 of them, as well as in 12 research contracts with private companies.

He has supervised 19 PhD thesis in different fields such as biotechnology of microalgae, filamentous fungi fermentation and water treatment and is co-author of four patents and more than 170 scientific publications in international journals.

He is the director of the Solar Energy Research Center, CIESOL, joint center between the University of Almería and the Plataforma Solar de Almería-CIEMAT, and director of the University Chair “Aqualia del ciclo integral del agua”.