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Professor
- Bio: Joan Salvadó (Vila-seca, 1958). Since 2007, Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, URV (Tarragona, Catalunya).
- Main research activities: Energy recovery of heavy oils, photosynthetic-based renewable energies, production of binderless fiberboards (without the addition of fossil-based adhesives) and lignin upgrade and applications.
- Research stages in the University of Leeds (UK, 1988), Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, CA, 1989) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL (Golden, CO, USA, 2000-2001).
- Head of Biomass and Bioenergy division in the Catalonia Institute of Energy Research, IREC, (Tarragona, 2009-2017).
- At present he is the head of Chemical Engineering Department at URV.
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