Ana Somoza Tornos

Dr. Somoza-Tornos is a PostDoctoral Research Associate at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (University of Colorado Boulder). She earned her BEng in Chemical Engineering in 2014 and her MSc in Chemical Process Engineering in 2016, both from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). In 2020, she was awarded her PhD in Process Systems Engineering also at UPC. Her thesis focused on the development of decision-making tools for the implementation of circular economy principles in process industries, with an aim to close the life cycle of plastic through chemical recycling. Her areas of expertise include process modeling and optimization, life cycle assessment and circular economy.