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Mr. Rafael Herena

Title:

PhD Student

School/ Department:

School of Science & Computing - Macular Pigment Research Group - West campus

Campus:

Carriganore

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My Biography

Rafael was born in Barcelona in 1985, he studied Marine Sciences at the University of Cádiz, obtaining a background as oceanographer and marine biologist. Afterwards, he completed a Masters in Industrial Biotechnology at the University of Almeria,  where he specialized in microorganism bioengineering and bioprocessing.

During his bachelor degree and thanks to a Seneca grant he worked in the L’Oceanografic de Valencia as a marine biologist.  In 2011 he completed a Masters thesis at PharmaMar biopharmaceutical company (Madrid) about the development of antitumoral compounds from marine actinobacteria.

In 2012 Rafa started working in The Netherlands with a Leonardo Da Vinci grant  at FeyeCon CO2 technologies, in a FP7 project call “All-Gas” (biodiesel from microalgae grown in wastewater). Since then he has been working for C2circle as a biotechnologist in the bioenergy and green chemicals group.