Chemical Engineering

Daniela Almeida Streitwieser has her expertise in the development of new technologies for the utilization of biomass and residues as alternative energy sources and alternative materials with value added to its components. Her passion is the creation process of new ideas to solve traditional problems in creative and innovative manners, such as the conversion of raw materials into value product, especially if the raw materials come from alternative sources, like residues from former processes or the agribusiness. She returned to Ecuador in 2007 after completing her PhD and gathering experience in the Waste Management and Renewable Energy sector in Germany and joined immediately the Faculty at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2008, she created the Laboratory for Development of Alternative Energies at USFQ, which becomes IDEMA in 2016. Since 2015, she is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at USFQ.