Dr. Ion Agirre Arisketa. PhD in Chemical Engineering (2011) and Full Professor at the Bilbao School of Engineering, Ion has 2 six-year research periods and Level B3 awarded by the Basque Government. He is a member of the ‘Sustainable Processes Engineering’ research group recognised as high performance by the Basque Government. He has completed pre- and post-PhD research stays at Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN, Netherlands) – 2006 and 2009 –, and the University of Leoben (Austria) –2011. He has supervised two PhD dissertations and been part of numerous research projects with private and public funding; his research is focused on the development of sustainable processes. Since 2003, Ion has been the head of the Repsol Foundation Learning Centre for the Energy Transition on the ‘Circular Economy’ at the Bilbao School of Engineering. That work has resulted in 26 indexed articles published in JRC, with his index being h = 18.
