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José María Asua
Born
José María Asua

6 April 1953 (Error: Need valid year, month, day)
Nationalityespañola
Alma materUniversidad del País Vasco
EmployerUniversidad del País Vasco

José María Asua González (Zarátamo, April 6, 1953) is a Spanish chemist, professor of chemical engineering at the University of the Basque Country and director of Polymat, the Polymeric Materials Research Institute.[1]

Asua obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Bilbao in 1975, and completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza, researching the deactivation of solid catalysts.[2]

Research and professional career

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In 1978, he joined the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the University of the Basque Country to research the subject of polymerization reactors.[2] He completed a post-doctoral stay at the University of Liège (Belgium) investigating the hydrodynamics of trickle bed reactors (TBR),[3] and has spent sabbatical years at Lehigh University (USA) as a Fulbright scholar and at the University of Waterloo (Canada) as a visiting professor.

He is also a visiting professor at the Catholic Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Dortmund (Germany).[4] Professor Asua is internationally recognized in the field of fundamental research in industrially important polymerization processes, developing knowledge-based strategies for the production of water-dispersed polymers.[2] He has also been a driving force behind university-industry relations, directing many industrial projects; and has been part of the scientific committee of many international conferences and director of a NATO Advanced Study Institute.[5]

Awards and honors

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  • Award for Research Excellence from the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry, 2017.[6]
  • Professor Martínez Moreno Award for Invention and Research in Applied Chemistry from the University of Seville and the García-Cabrerizo Foundation, 2015.[3]
  • Euskadi Research Award, 2005.[7]
  • Member of Jakiunde, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of the Basque Country.[5]
  • Rhône Poulenc Award for Innovation in Clean Technologies.[5]

Publications

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Asua is the author of a book and editor of the books 'Polymeric Dispersions: Principles and Applications' (1997) and 'Polymer Reaction Engineering' (2007). He has published more than 230 articles and is co-author of 4 patents. He is a member of the editorial boards of Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering and Chemical Engineering Journal, and has been Associate Editor of Polymer Reaction Engineering. He has given 45 invited and plenary lectures and more than 150 conferences and posters at international conferences. He is co-author of 4 patents and has directed 33 doctoral theses.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Persona- Jose M. Asua". Universidad del País Vasco. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "José María Asua / Catedrático de Ingeniería Química". Euskonews. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "José María Asúa". Polymat. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. ^ "José María Asua". GEP-SLAP2020. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d "José María Asua". Jakiunde. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Claudio Palomo y José Mª Asua, premiados por la Real Sociedad Española de Química". Interempresas.net. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  7. ^ "El químico de la UPV José María Asúa, premio Euskadi de Investigación". El Diario Vasco. 8 March 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2020.