Biography
Miriam Rueda, Project Manager of Protoatlantic, has recently joined the Association EMERGE, in March 2018.
She obtained her PhD with International mention in Chemical Engineering by University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2016 performing several stays in Hydrogen Lab in the University of Pavia (Italy). Her research experience started in 2010 when she was an ERASMUS student in Technique University of Denmark, where she developed her master thesis in Chemical Engineering.
After this period, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology in University of Valladolid (Spain) to study the Master ‘Engineering Thermodynamic of Fluids’ and after this, she started her PhD thesis. This thesis was focused on the development of innovative solid hydrogen storage material based on hydrides using pressurized fluids. The thesis was qualified with Cum Laude and recognized as the best thesis by International Society of Advanced Supercritical Fluids (ISASF). As a result, she has published 12 articles and she is also co-author of a National patent. Moreover, she has given 6 presentations; she has participated in another 10 and has been co-author of 8 posters presented in international congresses.
Also, due to the outstanding results obtained during this PhD thesis, she received an award from the Foundation Iberdrola to continue the research until March 2018.
Her entrepreneur spirit has given her the opportunity to transfer her knowledge from the lab to the market as a promoter of LightEnergy Engineers, a project which has been awarded in several programs: 1st Yuzz Valladolid and 2nd Yuzz Spain ‘Young with Ideas’, one of 5 awarded projects in Model 2 Market (Spin 2016) and also she has been recognized in the list Forbes 30 under 30 in the category Industry2017 and Forbes Spain.