Nov 7, 2025

 Our group member Antonio León attended the Nordic Photosynthesis Conference - Nordic Algae Symposium 2025 at the Konventum venue in Elsinore, Denmark, from October 20th to 23th.


Antonio contributed with his poster titled ‘Antiviral capacity of freshwater and marine microalgae over three different DNA and RNA viruses.’

Nov 6, 2025

Meet our new researchers!
Débora and Erik. Most welcome!

Débora joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her research focuses on hydrogen production via dark fermentation using lignocellulosic biomass.

Erik joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. His ongoing thesis deals with the optimization and comparison of environmental technologies for the removal of emerging micropollutants.



Nov 3, 2025

Our group member Samuel Stegman presented at the XV Latin American Workshop and Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion, held in Fortaleza, Ceará, from October 14th to 17th, 2025.

Sam contributed with his work titled ‘Fom Greenhouse gas to goods: the power of genome mining and halophilic purple phototrophic bacteria.’


Oct 29, 2025

Our group member Sara Cantera presented at the XIX Meeting of the National Network of Extremophilic Microorganisms, held in Huelva (Spain) from the 14th to the 16th of October.

She contributed with her work titled ‘Novel extremophile platforms to valorise CO2 into chemical for the pharmaceutical inustry.’




Sep 29, 2025

Meet our new researchers!
María and Carolina. Most welcome!

María joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her research focuses the development of mathematical models as tools to improve technology transfer in industrial-scale production of proteins.

Carolina joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her thesis explores the different applications of microbial carotenoids in diverse areas



Sep 24, 2025

Our group members Ysis Lanzoni and Cristina Martínez presented at the XXV International Congress of the Mexican Hydrogen Society, held in Morelia (México) from the 16th to the 19th of September.

Ysis contributed with the virtual presentation "Effect of organic loading rate perturbation on the fermentative hydrogen production of food waste in a two-stage lactate driven dark fermentation process."

Cristina contributed with the virtual presentation "Long-term hydrogen production performance during lactate-driven dark fermentation in a two-stage fermentation system."


Sep 12, 2025