Jersson Placido is a biological engineer and a master’s in biotechnology from the National University of Colombia and a doctorate in biological engineering from Texas A&M University. Dr. Plácido has worked as a researcher at Texas A&M University, University of Southampton and Swansea University and currently he is serving as research director at VEDAS CII. Dr. Placido is an expert in industrial and environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology and renewable energy. Dr. Plácido has participated in different projects in the transformation of agro-industrial waste into advanced nanomaterials and bioenergy and in the development of BioRefineries for the production of volatile fatty acids and biofuels from food and agro-industrial waste, additionally, he is an expert in the application of enzymatic processes for the degradation of pollutants in aqueous systems.