Alberto Puga Vaca
- Ramon y Cajal Researcher
- Avda. Països Catalans, 26. 43007, Tarragona
- Office 212
- +34977558740
- alberto.puga(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
- Research group web page
- Keywords / Research areas: hydrogen, carbon dioxide, photocatalysis, catalysis, biomass, ionic liquids, membranes
Bio
Alberto V. Puga received a PhD in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2007. He has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Queen's University of Belfast, a Marie Curie researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (URV, Tarragona), and a research associate at Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ, Valencia), where he became the Principal Investigator of a 3-year grant on sunlight-driven biomass-to-hydrogen processes (CTQ2015-74138-JIN, co-funded by the Spanish Research Agency and the EU). Dr. Puga is currently a Tenured Researcher and Lecturer (Ramón y Cajal Grant) at the Chemical Engineering Department of the URV, working on carbon dioxide capture and conversion, membrane technologies and photocatalysis. From a broader perspective, his research focus is set on the production of solar fuels and chemicals from renewable or waste substrates, within the framework of a circular carbon economy.