SHORT SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC LIFE

Óscar Guerrero Sodric (Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, 1995) is a Chemical Engineer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB) with a Master’s in Biological and Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology (UAB), awarded Cum Laude. His doctoral research, titled "Scaling-up and future perspectives of bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment and hydrogen production", focused on advancing microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) to optimize hydrogen production and wastewater treatment at pilot and real-scale applications. It was supervised by Dr. Albert Guisasola Canudas and Dr. Juan Antonio Baeza (GENOCOV group, UAB).

Óscar has worked for the chemical industry for several years as a project engineer, designing and optimizing new and existing processes. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Researcher contributing to different European projects, developing microbial electrochemical technologies (MET). His research aims to integrate resource recovery with environmental sustainability, bridging cutting-edge bioelectrochemical systems with practical applications for wastewater treatment and circular economy initiatives.

His research interests include:

• MET design and operation for resource recovery and sustainable wastewater treatment.
• MET scale-up and optimization.
• Circular economy solutions through innovative environmental engineering technologies.
• Green hydrogen production.

PUBLICATIONS

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., (2023) Exploring key operational factors for improving hydrogen production in a pilot-scale microbial electrolysis cell treating urban wastewater. Chemical Engineering Journal 469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.144001

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., (2024) Enhancing bioelectrochemical hydrogen production from industrial wastewater using Ni-foam cathodes in a microbial electrolysis cell pilot plant. Water Research 256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121616

CONFERENCES

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Comprehensive and long-term assessment of critical operational parameters of a pilot MEC for hydrogen production from urban wastewater. 5th European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET), Girona, Spain, September 2021. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Projecte LIFE+ NIMBUS: Demostració d’una planta de metanació biològica pel transport urbà sostenible. 1r Congrés BIT, Lleida, Spain, September 2022. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Enhancing hydrogen production from real wastewater in a 150 MEC pilot plant. 8th Global Conference of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET), Crete, Greece, September 2022. Oral presentation and poster.

Navarro, J., Cortada, M., Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Computational fluid dynamics as a tool to understand and mitigate mass difussion issues in pilot-scale bioelectrochemical systems. 8th Global Conference of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET), Crete, Greece, September 2022. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Producció d’hidrogen amb cel·les electrolítiques microbianes per a la biometanació. Jornada Impuls del Biogàs al Sector de l’Aigua, Manresa, Spain, March 2023. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Exploring the limits of hydrogen production by microbial electrochemical cells treating wastewater. 17th National Environmental Conference for Doctoral Students, Tsinghua, China, April 2023. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Exploring the limits of hydrogen production by microbial electrochemical cells treating wastewater. 15th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, June 2023. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Enhancing bioelectrochemical hydrogen production from industrial wastewater in a 150 L microbial electrolysis cell pilot plant. 6th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment, Girona, Spain, June 2023. Oral presentation.

Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Guisasola, A., Long-term performance of a 1 m3 pilot-MEC for hydrogen production in a real environment. 6th European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET), Wageningen, The Netherlands, September 2023. Oral presentation.

Guisasola, A., Guerrero-Sodric, O., Baeza, J., Escalado de celdas microbianas de electrólisis para la producción de hidrógeno. Cátedra FACSA-FOVASA-UPV, Valencia, Spain, November 2023. Oral presentation.