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Curriculum Vitae

Summary

• More than 10 years of practical research experience combining Biochemical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatic tools and techniques.
• Team oriented with strong interpersonal, leadership, mentoring and organizational skills.
• Problem-solving and goal oriented individual, capable of effective multi-tasking.
• Proven record of scientific creativity and independent thinking while keeping abreast of relevant literature and maintaining high level of expertise.

Skills

• Animal and aerobic and anaerobic microbial culture (from frozen stock up to 75 L., including medium design and optimization).
• Eukaryotic and prokaryotic metabolic engineering (metabolic flux analysis and culture improvement through genetic engineering).
• Microarray design, validation and its use towards strain improvement and process quality assurance.

Professional Experience and Accomplishments

2007 to present	Cobalt Biofuels (Mountain View, CA, USA) Manager Process Development. Leading the production of biobutanol from renewable resources for its use as an economic transportation fuel with a small environmental impact.
2007	Gevo, Inc.. (Pasadena, CA, USA) Senior Research scientist. Making 2nd generation non-ethanol biofuels from renewable resources a reality.
2002 to 2007	Prof. E. Terry Papoutsakis' Group. Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. Northwestern University (Evanston, Il., USA). Research and tool development for understanding the transcriptional programs underlying complex phenotypes in both solvent producing microorganism and the human hematopoiesis
2001 to 2002	Several positions within the Chemical Engineering Department. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Design and development of fully monitored bio-reactors for fast scale up of biological products and cell lines. Co-founder of Hexascreen S.L.
2000 to 2001	S.E.A.R.S.A. Sociedad de Explotación de Aguas Residuales, S.A. (Spain). Successfully managed a conflictive wastewater treatment plant and was promoted to assistant of the zone director.
1998 to 2000	Several academic positions within the Several positions within the Chemical Engineering Department. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). My Ph.D. work resulted on the initiation of four new research projects covering the topics of on-line monitoring and control of animal cell cultures and metabolic engineering of rCHO and E. coli cells. I successfully outlined the work and trained the new four graduate students who were assigned to the projects.

Education

1998 Ph.D. in Chemistry (Biotechnology option). Chemical Engineering Department. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

1995 M.Sc. Chemical Engineering Department. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

1993 B.Sc. (Industrial Chemistry option). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

Patents and patent disclosures

Methods and compositions for generating sporulation deficient bacteria. B. Tracy, C. J. Paredes, E.T. Papoutsakis (Inventors). USPTO patent application #12/485636 filed on June 2009.

Decoupling solvent and other product formation from sporulation by knocking out sigE and/or sigG in solventogenic or ethanol producing clostridia and other related endospore formers for enhanced and sustained bioprocessing using a variety of simple and complex carbohydrates. B. Tracy, C. J. Paredes, E.T. Papoutsakis (Inventors). Northwestern University. Provisional Patent Application filed on February 2008

Differentiation Engineering of solventogenic clostridia to arrest their differentiation program to achieve superior solvent production. B. Tracy, C. J. Paredes, E.T. Papoutsakis (Inventors). Northwestern University. Provisional Patent Application filed on February 2007

Modular system of multiple bioreactors for multifunctional screening in biotechnology. Bragós, R., Rosell, X., Riu, P.J., Gòdia, F., Cairó, J.J., Paredes, C.J. and Rodríguez, F. (Inventors). US Patent 7 442 438 B2, International Patent WO 2004/048510 A1, Spanish patent ES 2 208 127 A1, European patent application EP 1 580 261 A1, Japanese Patent JP2006507823. Hexascreen Culture Technologies S.L commercializes this invention.

Papers and Presentations

More than 20 papers in peer reviewed journals

More than 40 meeting posters and presentations