Elias Martinez HernandezDr Elias Martinez Hernandez is a researcher at the Biomass Conversion Division of the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP). He obtained his first-class degree in Chemical Engineering from UNAM (Mexico) and his PhD from the University of Manchester (U) working on process integration, economic and environmental assessment of biorefineries. He then worked as a Research Fellow at University of Surrey and at University of Oxford working on integrated production systems based on locally available renewable resources and the food-energy-water nexus. Elias was a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Bath before joining IMP. He is a co-author of the book 'Biorefineries and Chemical processes - Design, Integration and Sustainability Analysis' as well as multiple peer-reviewed journal publications. His areas of interest comprise waste processing in biorefineries, food-energy-water nexus, process modelling, life cycle assessment and sustainable design. Read More Read Less