Maria Eugenia Muñoz

Maria Eugenia Muñoz obtained her BS and PhD in Chemistry from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Professor of Physical Chemistry since 1988, she became a Full Professor in 2010. During 30 years she has been the person in charge of the Rheology Laboratory of the Department of Polymer Science and Technology and Polymat Institute, managing hundred of short and medium term contracts and many research projects with small and big companies, like Huntsman, Gamesa, Repsol and Ercros. Besides of lecturing courses on Rheology of Polymers over decades at the Faculty of Chemistry of Donostia- San Sebastián, she has organized dozens of rheology courses directed to the staff of companies and technological research centres, like Repsol, Tesalca, Cidaut and Tekniker.
She has published over 130 articles on rheology in international journals and participated as attendant and organizer in more than a hundred scientific conferences. In addition, she has participated in more than 50 rheology research projects financed by European, Spanish and Basque institutions and industrial companies. She has supervised 9 Doctoral Thesis and registered 3 patents. Vice-President of the Spanish Polymer Group (GEP) from 2010 to 2014. Evaluator of the Spanish prospective agency (ANEP) and reviewer of scientific journals, such as Polymer, European Polymer J., Journal of Rheology and others.
Her research is focussed on basic and applied rheology of polymers and complex systems, in particular gels, copolymers, blends and nanocomposites. Special attention is paid to rheological techniques employed as a tool to characterize polymers and copolymers, but also complex systems, like bitumen/polymer systems for roads and roofing and nanocomposites with stimulus-response behaviour. The liaison between rheological features and ultimate properties, such adhesion and conductivity, is also one of the subjects of her research.

Críspulo Gallegos

Críspulo Gallegos (Sevilla, Spain, 1955) obtained his PhD at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Sevilla (1982, Sevilla, Spain).
Since May 2011, he is Vice-President & Head of I&D “Complex Formulations” of Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH (Germany). He is also Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Huelva (Spain). Among other universities, he has worked as Visiting Professor (1989) at the University of Laval (Québec, Canada) and as BBVA Professor (1998) at the Chemical Engineering Department at Cambridge University (UK). Since 2006, he is an invited “Associated Member” of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (UK).
His research is mainly focused on microstructured product engineering. He has published to date over 250 scientific papers on this subject. In addition, he has participated in more than 100 research projects sponsored by different public administrations or the industry. He is also co-inventor in more than 25 patents, and Director of 16 Ph.D. Thesis on Complex Fluids Engineering.
He is Topic Coordinator Editor on “Materials Processing and Product Development” of the journal “Chemical Engineering Research and Design” (Elsevier), and Associate Editor of “Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials” (Springer).
Crispulo was the Scientific Coordinator of the Food Technology Area of the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight of the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology (2001-2004).
He was the President of both the Spanish Group of Rheology (1993-2006) and the European Society of Rheology (2009-2013).
Since 2011, he is a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and, since 2012, fellow of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia).