Carlos Mario is a Chemical Engineer who graduated from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He completed his master’s degree in chemical engineering and PhD in Engineering – Energy Systems at the Faculty of Mines of the same university. His doctoral research was oriented on optimizing biorefinery schemes through superstructure analysis applied to the Colombian case and its role in the Colombian energy transition.
His work experience is mainly related to developing projects in the power generation industry, as an expert in consultancies, and coordinating important projects for industry and academia. He combines his work with his professorships at the National University of Colombia and the University of La Guajira.
His research experience includes energy efficiency, solar energy, thermal districts, cogeneration, combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification of coal and biomass. He has also had internships at universities in Brazil, Germany and Spain. Now, in Canada, he has joined the Biomass Technology Laboratory (BTL) team to work on the “Genesis – α” project. This project aims to validate a technology developed to improve a cogeneration (CHP) system based on waste gasification.