Researchers
Julio Suay Antón
ID Scopus: 6602329960
(+34) 964 728 192
Julio Suay Antón read his Ph.D. Dissertation (Industrial Engineering) in 1996 at the Technical University of Valencia – UPV, and since then his career has taken place at that institution and at the University of Castellon, where he is since April 2010 Full Professor. He is founding member and coordinator of the PIMA Research Group and also a member of the Biomedical Research Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine - CIBER-BBN. He keeps also strong links with other institutions he has worked for (Príncipe Felipe Research Centre- CIPF, Biomaterials Unit and Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering - CBIT) and maintains long term partnerships with members of other Spanish Higher Education Institutions.
He has been Principal Investigator in 11 Publicly Funded Projects (2.355.547 euros) and in 16 Research Contracts (297.483 euros) some of them with multinational companies, and has taken part in other 9 projects and 6 contracts; he is co-inventor of 5 Patents and promoter of 2 spin-off companies. Regarding his scientific production, he has published 51 papers in international journals, presented at 47 International Congresses, and directed 4 Thesis (5 more in course) dealing mostly with functional coatings, corrosion evaluation, and hybrid biomaterials.
José Gámez Pérez
ID Scopus: 7801475232
(+34) 964 728 194
José Gámez Pérez holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc in Chemistry (University of Valencia) and M.E. in Chemical Engineering (ECPM- University of Strasbourg - FRANCE). He received his Ph.D. in 2006 at the Technical University of Catalonia - UPC (Barcelona), with a thesis entitled "Structure-properties relationships of polypropylene and ethylene-propylene block copolymers plates and thin sheets obtained by different transformation processes".
After working for a year as a research engineer at Household Technologies S.L, he continued his career at the Catalonian Plastic Centre - CCP (Terrassa), a research group within the Materials Science Department of the UPC; he is since October 2010 Lecturer at the University of Castellon. the research lines in which he has most actively participated are:
a) Structure-process-properties relationship in thermoplastics
b) Mechanical properties and post-yielding fracture mechanics
c) Organo-modified clay nanocomposites in thermoplastic matrices
d) Processing of biopolyesters oriented to the packaging sector
In these research lines he has participated as a co-author in 39 indexed articles and in more than 60 communications to national and international conferences. He has co-directed three doctoral theses and is currently in the direction of three more ones. The objectives to which the research is directed revolve around the environmental sustainability of plastics by reducing their carbon footprint, either through the use of renewable raw materials or by optimizing their performance
Luis Cabedo Mas
ID Scopus: 9636458500
(+34) 964 728 193
Luis Cabedo Mas B.E and M.E in Chemical Engineering from the University Jaume I of Castellon. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2007 at the same University, with the title “Development of Nanocomposites based on Ethylene - Vinyl Alcohol copolymers (EVOH) and Laminar Phyllosilicates for their application in High Barrier Packaging”; it was granted the Research Excellence Award for Doctoral Studies in 2008.
During his pre-doctoral training he worked at the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Lab of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology - IATA, a centre of the Spanish National Research Council - CSIC. After obtaining his PhD, he joined University of Castellon as assistant professor, and he is currently Associate Professor. He has taken part as researcher in 16 competitive projects (Principal Investigator in two national project) and 5 contracts with national and multinational companies. He is co-inventor of two patents and promoter of a spin-off (Nanobiomatters). Regarding his scientific production, he has co-authored over 40 publications, of which 35 in international journals, as well as over 45 presentations at conferences. He has done several research stays at the following centres: in important centres as the RISOE, SUNY, DESY, TUM and KTH. In 2010 he received the “Young Researchers Award” in the field of Engineering.
Raúl Izquierdo Escrig
ID Scopus: 22440847900
(+34) 964 728 193
Raúl Izquierdo Escrig, B.E. and M.E. in Chemical Engineering fromthe University of Castellon. He read in 2007 his Ph.D. dissertation “Development and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Porous Structures in Biodegradable Polymers” that was granted in 2009 the Research Excellence Award for Doctoral Studies.
Having worked for a year at Saloni Cerámica, his career has mostly taken place at University of Castellón, where he started in 2003 as Teaching assistant and where he is currently Senior Lecturer. He has taken part as researcher in 13 competitive projects (in one of them as Principal Investigator) and in 12 research contracts (PI in two of them). He has co-authored 5 publications in international journals and 17 presentations at conferences, he is also promoter of a spin-off company.
José Javier Gracenea
ID Scopus: 6508365998
(+34) 964 727 389
José Javier Gracenea has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of País Vasco. He has developed his professional carrer as a Tecnical and Comercial Director in diferents companies of coatings and paintings. He es co-founder of MEDCO, a technological company and a Jaume I University spin-off. At this moment he is the president of AETEPA (Spanish Asociation of Coatings Technicians) and member of the CTN48 plenary committee of AENOR and Spanish delegate at ISO TC35/SC09/WG29 committee
Jorge García Cañadas
(+34) 964 728 212
Jorge García Cañadas did his PhD (2006) at the Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group at the Universitat Jamue I (Spain) in the preparation and characterization of electrochromic devices and dye-sensitised solar cells. He was contracted (2007) as R&D Manager by the spin-off company Xop Física S.L, to lead the development of new semiconductor-based moisture, conductivity and temperature sensors.
In 2011 he joined Cardiff University where he was involved in the fabrication of thermoelectric modules for high temperature energy harvesting applications and the development of new characterization techniques for thermoelectric materials and devices. In September 2015, he returned to the Universitat Jaume I as Ramón y Cajal Fellow and joined the Polymers and Advanced Materials Research Group. He is the co-inventor of several patents and author of more than 35 articles in international journals.
