Elias Martinez Hernandez

Elias Martinez Hernandez is a Senior Researcher at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) in the Energy Efficiency and Biofuels Division. He obtained his first-class degree in Chemical Engineering from UNAM (Mexico) in 2009 and his PhD in Process Integration from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2013. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford, and later took up the position as a Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering,...See more

Elias Martinez Hernandez is a Senior Researcher at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) in the Energy Efficiency and Biofuels Division. He obtained his first-class degree in Chemical Engineering from UNAM (Mexico) in 2009 and his PhD in Process Integration from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2013. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford, and later took up the position as a Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath. He is a recognized scientist by the National Researcher System in Mexico. He has coauthored the textbook Biorefineries and Chemical Processes: Design, Integration and Sustainability Analysis and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal publications. He is an Editorial Board Member of the IChemE's journal Food and Bioproducts Processing. Elias has led research in digital chemical engineering applied to bioenergy and biorefinery process development, the foodeenergyewater nexus, and more recently in property prediction and process simulation combining neural networks and community detection in molecular and process graphs. He has developed Biorefsysdbiorefinery systems analysis tool; Nexsymda first-of-its-kind foodeenergyewater nexus simulator that has been featured and reviewed in several articles in this field, as well as the IMP Bio2Energyda tool to evaluate the techno-economics of biomass and bioenergy production considering the whole value chain and employing thermodynamic modeling of steam and water properties. Other developments include IMPESda decision support platform for bioenergy implementation and policymaking in Mexico as part of a Newton Fund Impact Scheme project. His areas of research comprise biorefineries, foodeenergyewater nexus, process modeling, life cycle assessment, bioenergy sustainability indicators, modularity, neural networks, and machine learning methods applied in chemical process systems engineering. See less