Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile
Héctor Valdés is a full professor at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción. He is currently the Director of the Industrial Engineering Department and Director of the Clean Technologies Laboratory. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile in 2003.
His main research areas are related to the development of new technologies for the control of air pollution, unconventional technologies for wastewater treatment and postharvest technologies for ethylene control during transportation and storage of fruit and vegetables.
Prof. Valdés is the author of 107 Scopus articles, with 2.761 citations and H-index 27. He has 2 invention patents. He has been awarded with 18 FONDECYT project grants, 1 FONDEF project grant, an ECOS-CONICYT project. He is a permanent reviewer of 15 WoS journals. He is a member of the Evaluation Group (Engineering 3), in charge of evaluating the research proposals submitted to the Research Projects Subdirectorate (SPI-FONDECYT) of the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID). Currently, he is Associate Editor of the journal Ozone: Science & Engineering.
Prof. Valdés will contribute at ICEEM13 a keynote lecture in the field of novel processes and technologies titled:
Recent advances in photocatalytic materials to prolong the shelf-life of climacteric fruits
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