DR. FRANCISCO JAVIER DEIVE HERVA

Dr. Francisco J. Deive has two degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2007 at the University of Vigo after defending his PhD thesis focused on the isolation, characterization and production of industrially relevant enzymes from extremophilic microorganisms, which included an international stay at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. Afterwards, he started his posdoc period (funded by Juana de Vega foundation) at the Instituto de Tecnología Química e Biologica of Lisbon (Portugal), focused on the introduction of a group of neoteric solvents, ionic liquids, for the extraction of metabolites with industrial interest. He came back to the University of Santiago de Compostela with a Juan de la Cierva contract, prior to join again the University of Vigo through an Isidro Parga Pondal and Ramón y Cajal contract.

In general, he has participated in a diversity of research projects (about 2.0 million €), at an international, national and regional level. His research articles in top-ranked journals and book chapters are set within the areas of antioxidants extraction, development of bioprocesses with lower environmental impact and contaminants remediation. He has supervised several postdoctoral, PhD and MSc students. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemistry, and he participates in the Evaluation Boards of different international research agencies.