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ALOÑA RETEGUI MINER

Knowledge area
Chemical Engineering
Department
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Centre
Faculty of Engineering - Gipuzkoa
Electronic mail
alona.retegui@ehu.eus

Aloña Retegi Miner is Professor of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering from October 2007 and Associate Professor from 2017. She has taught several courses both degrees in Chemical Engineering and Technical Architecture of the University of the Basque Country and master's level in Renewable materials Engineering also taught at the same University. She studied Materials Engineering at the Engineering School of Bilbao (2005) and then her Ph.D. in 2009 She also made the Master of Engineering in Wood, Paper and Biomaterials (2006). Belongs to Materials + Technologies Group since 2001 where she started in order to run the final project of Chemical Engineering in the area of natural fibers and their composites and from that work, she has been developing her research in the field of biopolymers and bacterial cellulose, both in its biosynthesis and also different forms of application in biocomposites. She has participated in several projects of applied research projects with companies and calls in regional, national (National Scientific and Technical Research, Materials Area) and European research projects. She has directed 2 PhD related to the development of bacterial cellulose from agroindustrial wastes. She has 30 publications, in the area of Chemical and Materials Engineering, in international journals indexed in JCR, has published two 2 chapters and has more than 50 communications in national and international conferences. orcid.org/0000-0001-5099-3280