John Posada

Position/title:

assistant professor

Institution:

Delft University of Technology (TU delft)

Department:

Department of Biotechnology

Personal/department website

Research interests:

biobased products

(bio)process design

biorefineries design

circular economy; Environmental assessment (LCA); Techno-economic analysis

social impacts of bio-economy

integral sustainability in bio-economy

Short CV / biography / description of scientific focus and achievements:

John Posada is a Chemical Engineer and Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology (Department of Biotechnology – Section Biotechnology and Society). He obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) in (bio-)chemical process design from the National University of Colombia in 2011. He worked at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development (Utrecht University) first as Post-doctoral Researcher (for three years) and then as Senior Researcher (for one additional year) in the area of “Sustainability Assessment of Biorefineries”. In 2015, he joint TU Delft as Assistant Professor working on the area of “Integral Sustainability in Biobased Economy”; his research interests cover, amongst others, techno-economic, environmental, social and integrated sustainability assessment in biobased economy, mostly for biorefineries. He is currently coordinating the ‘Horizontal International Project’ (2.2M€) for an overall integral sustainability assessment of biojet fuels and bioplastics production. He has participated in over 10 research projects, supervised (incl. ongoing): 15 MSc students, 3 Junior researchers (PhD students level); 2 Professional doctorate trainees (PDEngs); 2 PhD students and 1 Post-doc; and has published 17 scientific papers, 4 book chapters, 1 book, 6 public research reports, and 18 papers/abstracts in scientific conferences.

Relevant publications:

Posada JA, Rincón LE, Cardona CA. (2012). Design and analysis of biorefineries based on raw glycerol: addressing the glycerol problem. Bioresource Technology 11:282-293.

Posada JA, Patel AD, Roes A, Blok K, Faaij APC, Patel MK. (2013). Potential of bioethanol as a chemical building block for biorefineries: Preliminary sustainability assessment of 12 bioethanol-based products. Bioresource Technology 135:490-499.

Posada JA, Naranjo JM, López JA, Higuita JC, Cardona CA. (2011). Design and Analysis of PHB Production Processes from Crude Glycerol. Process Biochemistry. 46:310-317.

Posada JA, Cardona CA. (2010). Design and analysis of fuel ethanol production from raw glycerol. Energy. 35(12):5286-5293.

Moncada J., Posada JA, Andrea R. (2015). Early sustainability assessment for potential configurations of integrated biorefineries. Screening of bio-based derivatives from platform chemicals. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 9:722–748.

Fernández-Dacosta C, Posada JA, Kleerebezem R, Cuellar MC, Ramirez A. (2015). Microbial community-based polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production from wastewater: Techno-economic analysis and ex-ante environmental assessment. Bioresource Technology 185:368–377.