Chemical Engineering

Biography

M. A. Martin Luengo, studied chemistry in the UAM (Madrid, Spain). In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work on oxidation catalysts and her phD on hydrogenation catalysts, both with honours. As a postdoctoral grant holder of the CSIC she worked in Brunel University (UK) and in the University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium). She worked as a fellowship IA with the Scientific Engineering Research Council (UK), on Fischer Tropsch and from 1992 she is permanent scientific staff of CSIC (Spain). She has participated in more than 25 research projects, 100 scientific papers and chapters of books, 120 congresses, several patents, is chartered chemist of RSC and member of ACS and of the Spanish Societies of Catalysis and Clays.

Research Interest

Her research interest includes studies on sustainable issues, searching for the use of renewable materials, energies and chemical processes, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economies