- Categoría Profesional
- Profesora Titular de Universidad
- Departamento
- Ingeniería Química
- Área de conocimiento
- Ingeniería Química
- Edificio
- Facultad de Ciencias - Módulo 8
- Despacho
- 504-5
- Correo electrónico
- macarena.munnoz@uam.es
- Teléfono
- 91 4973991
Currículum Vitae
Macarena Munoz is Ramón y Cajal fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). The researcher graduated in Environmental Sciences in June 2008 at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She started her experience as full-time researcher in the Chemical Engineering Section of UAM in October 2008, with a competitive UAM Scholarship. In July 2009 she was awarded with the FPU-PhD fellowship (2008-0092). Her PhD Thesis was focused on the understanding of chlorophenols removal by catalytic hydrodechlorination, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) and their combination. During her PhD studies, she was a guest researcher at the Clausthal Institute of Environmental Technology (CUTEC Institute, Germany) for three months, working on the application of different AOPs, under the supervision of Prof. Sievers. In September 2012, she obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering (European mention) with the distinction Cum laude. She continued working as postdoc researcher at UAM funded by contracts associated to R&D projects focused on the degradation of non-biodegradable pollutants in different real industrial wastewaters. She also completed a postdoctoral stay for 3 months at Aveiro University (2013, Portugal), under the supervision of Prof. Coutinho, where she explored the application of Fenton oxidation to the treatment of ionic liquids-bearing aqueous wastes. In 2014, she took up a post-doctoral position for 18 months at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Etzold. Within this period, the researcher was focused on the development of novel and well-defined catalysts, mainly colloidal nanoparticles, advanced carbon materials and ionic liquids-based catalysts (SILP and SCILL), for their application in processes of industrial interest. In 2015, she obtained the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellowship (IJCI-2014-19427), coming back to the Chemical Engineering Section of UAM. Two years later, she obtained the Ramón y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2016-20648), position that she holds since January 2018. Her current research line is focused on the intensification of advanced oxidation processes in order to make them more cost-efficient, sustainable and technically feasible. The application of these processes is intended to the elimination of pollutants of emerging concern and cyanotoxins. In 2019, the researcher has started a new line of research dealing with the elimination of microplastics from water.
The scientific production of Dr. Munoz encompasses more than 60 JCR publications, 2 journal covers, 1 edited book, 4 book chapters and more than 70 contributions to conferences, including a plenary talk (more than 2400 citations, h factor of 26). She has been involved in 13 competitive research projects (1 European project, 1 Ibero-American project, 5 National projects and 6 Regional projects), being IP of one of them. Regarding technology transfer, she is the first author of six patents and acts as IP of three contracts (art.83) with companies (AQUALIA and CAPTOPLASTIC). In 2020, she launched as founding partner a spin-off focused on the removal of microplastics from water (CAPTOPLASTIC).