Dr. Ivet Ferrer

Full Professor Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringFutur Scientific Profile

 

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Biography

Prof. Ivet Ferrer is Agricultural Engineer by the University of Lleida, Spain (2002) and MSc. in Environmental Diagnostics by Cranfield University, UK (2003). In 2008 she obtained her Doctoral Degree in Environmental Sciences by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She has been postdoctoral research visitor at the Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology (LBE-INRAE), France (2009) and Wageningen University, The Netherlands (2010).

At UPC, she was initially assistant professor (2006), associate professor (2011) and since 2020 she is Full Professor in Environmental Engineering. She leads the research line on anaerobic digestion and biogas production of GEMMA Research Group. Her research is now focused on the recovery of resources from waste streams to obtain bioproducts and bioenergy, in the framework on the circular bioeconomy. Her main fields of expertise are anaerobic digestion and algal biotechnologies.