Juan Manuel Paz-Garcia is a Chemical Engineer; he studied at the University of Malaga (2008) and obtained a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark (2012). As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked at Wetsus (the Netherlands, 2013-2014) and Lund University (Sweden, 2014-2016). Since 2016, he has been a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Malaga. He is a docent of several courses in chemical and environmental engineering and the software COMSOL Multiphysics. His main research areas are recycling and reusing lithium-ion batteries, water treatment, electrokinetic remediation, CO2 capture, and reactive transport modeling.