Dr. Estel Rueda is a Chemical Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) (2017) and MSc. in Biological and Environmental Engineering by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2019). She obtained her Doctoral Degree in Environmental Engineering by the UPC in 2022. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at Ceit (2022-2024). Since 2024, she is a lecturer professor at the Civil and Environmental Department of UPC and a research member of the Group in Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA). Her research focuses on resource recovery from waste streams, including bioproducts (e.g., pigments, polymers, bulk chemicals) and critical materials. She is interested in bioprocess optimisation, sustainable and cascade bioproduct recovery, and the mathematical modelling of these bioprocesses. Her primary areas of expertise include the production of biopolymers and microalgae biotechnology.