Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Founder, Centre for Process and Environmental Engineering (CEPIMA) UPC. Graduated with honors (first in his class of 208) B.Sc., M.Sc. (UPC 1965); Ph.D. (Polytechnic U. Madrid 1968). Holds: MSc, U. Houston (1966; Fulbright outstanding scholar achievement award); MA, U. Barcelona (1970). Director for R&D, Higher Technical School Ind. Eng. (1980-1983, UPC); Head, ChE Dept (1988-1994, UPC); Member, Higher Sci. Res. Council of Spain (C.S.I.C., 1972-). Professional experience: teaching and research: NASA-Houston; Purdue U; U California-Berkeley; U California-Davis; IBM-San Jose Res Center; Stanford U; M.I.T.; Max Planck Institute; King’s College London; U of Houston; Imperial College London; Cork Tech College; UNAM; UNICAMP; Hungarian Aca Sciences; Russian Aca. Sciences. Guest lecturer (Laudatio), Technishe Universität Dortmund (2012). Member of 32 scientific organizations. National delegate, WP-CAPE of EFCE. Member, Executive Committee of Industry, Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation, Barcelona. Chaired over 100 sessions at national and international meetings. Supervised 53 PhD Thesis and 79 MSc students, published over 500 papers in scientific journals & conference proceedings, author of over 200 technical reports and editor/co-editor of 10 books. He serves/has served in several Editorial Boards. European Commission Expert in s