Daniel Florez-Orrego obtained his Mechanical Engineer degree from the Faculty of Mines of the National University of Colombia, Campus Medellin (2011). He earned his Master (2014) and Doctor (cum laude 2018) degrees in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Energy and Fluids from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a 1-year exchange at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Currently, he works as a Senior Researcher in the area of the Synthesis and Optimization of Industrial, Chemical and Power Generation Processes of the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering (IPESE) group. He was awarded the ABCM Embraer Award 2019 for the Best PhD Mechanical Engineering Thesis and the Honorable Mention in Outstanding PhD Thesis USP Award in 2020. He is a member of the Colombian Association of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers—ACIEM (Antioquia), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers—AIChE, and a Recognized Researcher of the Colombian Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation—MinCiencias. His fields of expertise include industrial process
integration; cogeneration, refrigeration and heat pumping; techno-economic and environmental analyses; refineries, biorefineries, fertilizers complexes, hydrogen and synthetic fuels (SNG, DME, MeOH, FT, H2); power to gas systems and reversible solid oxide cells; and combustion, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, and reaction design.
Supervisors: Silvio de Oliveira Jr and Francois Maréchal