Dr. Aurora Garea

Aurora Garea Vázquez
Associate professor
Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular
Universidad de Cantabria
+34 942 846542, gareaa@unican.es
Research
Aurora Garea Vázquez is graduated in Sciences (Chemistry) in the year 1991 in the
UPV/EHU University (Pais Vasco) and Doctor in Sciences in the year 1995 in the University of
Cantabria. Currently, Aurora Garea Vázquez is an associate professor in the University of
Cantabria, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
The main research topics are: acid gas treatment by (i) desulfurization technologies and
(ii) non-dispersive absorption with membranes, ultrapurification of wet chemicals by
membrane technologies, and currently involved in the ionic liquids application to the topic
of CO2 capture and valorization with membranes. The process system engineering (PSE)
techniques for modeling and optimization are also research topics of interest.
Aurora Garea Vázquez has a H-index of 16, with a number of 49 publications in
international indexed journals, given by the database Web of Science (Thomson Reuters).
She has supervised 5 doctoral thesis and currently one thesis more in the field of CO2
capture by non-dispersive absorption. These thesis are co-supervised with Prof. Angel
Irabien.
Aurora Garea Vázquez has been main researcher in the competitive projects financed by
the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: CTQ2010-16608, UCAN08-4E-017, PPQ2003-00546,
and a project of the program PETRI, Nº 95-0799.OP, in the year 2005 in collaboration with
the chemical industry Derivados del Flúor S.A. that financed 4 addendum projects from
2004 to 2007. She also participated in the competitive projects CTM2006-00317/TECNO (IP:
Prof. Angel Irabien, Prof. Arturo Romero), CSD2006-00044 Consolider Ingenio (IP: Eloy
García).
At the moment, she coordinates with Prof. Angel Irabien a relevant competitive project
titled "Desarrollo e integración de procesos con membranas para la captura y valorización
de dióxido de carbono" (CTQ2013-48280-C3-1-R), working with a group of researchers from
other universities (U. Alicante and U. Politécnica de Madrid).
Publications
Search criteria in Web of Knowledge:
Garea (Author) and Cantabria (Affiliation).
Teaching
Official teaching Link to the department personal page at department:
http://web.unican.es/departamentos/ingquimica/miembros-deldepartamento/personal-docente-e-investigador/profesor?p=2898&a=2015
Additional information
Participant in the SusChem-ES: Plataforma Tecnológica Española de Química Sostenible
(PETEQUS), in the working group related to Reactions and Chemical Processes.