Jaume Puigagut

Position/title: 
associate professor
Institution: 
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Department: 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal/department website
Research interests: 
water quality
wastewater treament
water and energy
biotechnologies
ecoinnovation
green technologies
low cost technologies
microbial fuel cells
Short CV / biography / description of scientific focus and achievements: 

Jaume Puigagut was doctorated in Biology from the University of Barcelona in 2007. He conducted a post-doc stage at l’Ecole Politecnique de Montreal from 2008 to 2009. Dr. Puigagut is currently holding a position of Associate Professor at the Tecnical University of Catalonia and conducts research and teaching activities within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Civil Engineering School. He has conducted research on biomonitoring and wastewater treatment in conventional and natural wastewater treatment systems. He has published so far a total of 31 scientific publications idexed in JCR. Most of the works published are within the domain of “Environmental engineering”, “Environmental Sciences” or “Water Resources. He has supervised two PhD thesis. He is currently involved in the application of bioelectrochemical systems in constructed wetlands for wastewater tretament improvement and process performance monitoring.

Relevant publications: 
Corbella, C., Guivernau, M., Viñas, M., Puigagut, J.2015. Operational, design and microbial aspects related to power production with microbial fuel cells implemented in constructed wetlands. Water Research, 84, 232-242.
Puigagut, J., Angles, H., Chazarenc, F. and Comeau, Y. (2011). Decreasing phosphorus discharge in fish farm ponds by treating the sludge generated with sludge drying beds. Aquaculture, 318 (1-2), 7-14.
Pedescoll, A., Corzo, A., Alvarez, E., García, J., Puigagut, J. (2011).The effect of primary treatment and flow regime on clogging development in horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands: an experimental evaluation. Water Research, 45 (12), 3579–3589.
Puigagut, J., Villaseñor, J., Salas, J.J., Becare, E. and García, J. (2007). Subsurface flow constructed wetlands in Spain for the sanitation of small communities: a comparative study. Ecological engineering 30, 312-319.
Puigagut, J., Salvadó, H. García, D., Granés, F. and García, J. (2007). Comparison of microfauna communities in full scale subsurface-flow constructed wetlands used as secondary and tertiary treatment. Water Research 41(8), 1645-1652.