Ivet Ferrer

Position/title: 
associate professor
Institution: 
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Department: 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal/department website
Research interests: 
Anaerobic digestion
biogas
bioenergy
microalgae
sludge
waste treatment
wastewater treatment
Short CV / biography / description of scientific focus and achievements: 

Dr. Ivet Ferrer is Associate Professor at the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya·BarcelonaTech (UPC) in Spain. She is member of the Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Research Group (GEMMA, http://gemma.upc.edu/). Her research has focused on the anaerobic digestion of solid residues to produce biogas in the context of waste and wastewater treatment systems. Particularly, on strategies to improve the methane yield by applying pretreatment techniques, thermophilic digestion and codigestion of different substrates like microalgae, sludge, straw or manure. Author of more than 40 papers in international peer reviewed scientific journals, her papers have received more than 1100 citations and her h-index is 17. She is Associate Editor of the Journal Algal Research (Elsevier).

Relevant publications: 
Passos, F., Ferrer, I. (2014) Microalgae conversion to biogas: thermal pretreatment contribution on net energy production. Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 7171-7178.
Passos, F, Uggetti, E., Carrère, H., Ferrer, I. (2014) Pretreatment of microalgae to improve biogas production: a review. Bioresource Technology, 172, 403-412.
Ferrer, I., Garfí, M., Uggetti, E., Ferrer-Martí, L., Calderón, A., Velo, E. (2011) Biogas production in low-cost household digesters at the Peruvian Andes. Biomass and Bioenergy, 35, 1668-1674.
Carrère, H., Dumas, C., Battimelli, A., Batstone, D.J., Delgenès, J.P., Steyer, J-P., Ferrer, I. (2010) Pretreatment methods to improve sludge anaerobic degradability: a review. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 183, 1-15.
Ferrer, I., Vázquez, F., Font, X. (2010) Long term operation of a thermophilic anaerobic reactor: process stability and efficiency at decreasing sludge retention time. Bioresource Technology, 101(9), 2972-2980.