Victoria is a full professor of chemical engineering in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Department of the Complutense University of Madrid, her Ph.D.thesis on xanthan production was defended in June 1993 and won the UCM extraordinary doctoral award. The research career has been focused on the field of industrial biotechnology, with the aim of developing sustainable production bioprocesses from the perspective of chemical engineering, that is, identifying phenomena and carrying out their experimental study and modelling. Within these works, the kinetic modeling of microbial bioprocesses has been addressed in a prominent way, as well as the study of the oxygen transfer and uptake rates, a decisive phenomenon in the correct functioning of aerobic bioprocesses. Likewise, the phenomenon of cell damage due to the hydrodynamics necessary to achieve the correct transfer of oxygen in this type of system is being studied. In the latest projects undertaken, it was essential the incorporation of the recovery of wastes (glycerol from biodiesel production, waste from agro-food industries) entering the concept of circular bioeconomy. Within these projects, it is worth mentioning two ERA-IB projects on 2,3-BD and lactic acid bioproduction and a SUSFOOD2 project—SPAREC—on food waste valorisation and circular bioeconomy.
Victoria is a full professor of chemical engineering in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Department of the Complutense University of Madrid, her Ph.D.thesis on xanthan production was defended in June 1993 and won the UCM extraordinary doctoral award. The research career has been focused on the field of industrial biotechnology, with the aim of developing sustainable production bioprocesses from the perspective of chemical engineering, that is, identifying phenomena and carrying out their experimental study and modelling. Within these works, the kinetic modeling of microbial bioprocesses has been addressed in a prominent way, as well as the study of the oxygen transfer and uptake rates, a decisive phenomenon in the correct functioning of aerobic bioprocesses. Likewise, the phenomenon of cell damage due to the hydrodynamics necessary to achieve the correct transfer of oxygen in this type of system is being studied. In the latest projects undertaken, it was essential the incorporation of the recovery of wastes (glycerol from biodiesel production, waste from agro-food industries) entering the concept of circular bioeconomy. Within these projects, it is worth mentioning two ERA-IB projects on 2,3-BD and lactic acid bioproduction and a SUSFOOD2 project—SPAREC—on food waste valorisation and circular bioeconomy.