- Research Staff
- Prof. José M. Asua
- Prof. David Mecerreyes
- Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso
- Prof. Jose R. Leiza
- Prof. Juan Luis Delgado
- Prof. Thomas Schäfer
- Prof. Alejandro J. Müller
- Prof. Marcelo Calderón
- Prof. Jose-Ramon Sarasua
- Prof. Ronen Zangi
- Prof. Maria Forsyth
- Prof. María Paulis
- Prof. Radmila Tomovska
- Dr. Haritz Sardon
- Prof. Agurtzane Mugica
- Prof. Amaia Butrón
- Prof. Agustin Etxeberria
- Prof. Manoli Zubitur
- Dr. Ainhoa Lejardi
- Dr. Emiliano Meaurio
- Dr. Nicholas Ballard
- Dr. Aitor Larrañaga
- Dr. Ester Zuza
- Dr. Jaime Martín
- Dr. Miren Aguirre
- Dr. Fernando Ruipérez
- Dr. Jone Muñoz
- Dr. Ana Beloqui Elizazu
- Dr. Sandra Camarero Espinosa
- Dr. Robert Hernández
- Dr. Irune Villaluenga
- Support Staff
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Aitor Barquero Salaberria
- Dr. Andere Basterretxea
- Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou
- Dr. Nerea Casado
- Dr. Silvia Collavini
- Dr. Marta Martínez-Abadía
- Dr. Luca Porcarelli
- Dr. Alberto Riaño
- Dr. Coralie Jehanno
- Dr. Maryam Safari
- Dr. Edurne González
- Dr. Leire Sangroniz
- Dr. Rajeev K. Dubey
- Dr. Nikolaos Politakos
- Dr. Nuria Alegret Ramon
- Dr. Liliana C. Tomé
- Dr. Neha Tiwary
- Dr. Nicolas Jean-Christopher Goujon
- Dr. Eva Sánchez Rexach
- Dr. Edgar Gutiérrez Fernández
- Dr. Oihane Llorente Zabala
- Dr. Saibal Bera
- Dr. Gregorio Guzman Gonzalez
- Dr. Ainara Sangroniz Agudo
- Dr. María Virginia Candal Pazos
- Dr. Antonela Gallastegui
- Dr. Satyajit Das
- Dr. Edurne Gaston Estanga
- Dr. Leire Iturriaga Oñarte-Echevarria
- Dr. Tobias Kuhnt
- PhD Students
- Hegoi Amestoy
- Sebastian M. Dron
- Alvaro Gómez López
- Javier Mateos
- Beñat Olave
- Bertha T. Pérez
- Iliane Rafaniello
- Naroa Sadaba
- Esther Udabe
- Aurélie Destephen
- Sara Marina Barbier
- Nerea Jiménez
- Fermín Elizalde
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- Maialen Argaiz
- Jorge Luis Olmedo
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- Fabian Wenzel
- Marta Alvarez
- Hesham Ahmed Mostafa Abdeldaim
- Maialen Galdeano Fraile
- Félix Hernández Culebras
- Elisabet de Bolòs Sánchez
- David Esporrín Ubieto
- Sheraz Tariq
- Huiyi Wang
- Justine Elgoyhen
- Nicolás María Muñoz
- Adrián Pérez López
- Elena Gabirondo Amenabar
- Soline Vauthier
- Rafael del Olmo Martínez
- Edurne Marín
- Diulia Caroline Quites Rodrigues
- Andrea Melissa Cabrera Espinoza
- Sumi Murali Nair
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- Nicolas Ramos
- Maria Rosaria Caputo
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- Richard Schönlein
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- Ana Aguzin
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- Laura Ballester Bayarri
- Antton Ibarbia Iribar
- Tijs Lap
- Sara Pavo Beldarrain
- Ander González de Txabarri
- Ainhoa Fernández Tena
- Roció López Domene
- Tansu Abbasoglu
- Ana Trajcheva
- Giulia Vozzolo
- Ulyana Semenenko
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- Iker Arrizabalaga Asorey
- Jacopo Teotonico
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Prof. Jose R. Leiza
Prof. Jose R. Leiza
Group Leader
Centro Joxe Mari Korta
Avenida de Tolosa, 72
20018 Donostia - San Sebastián
Spain
email: jrleiza@ehu.es
Tel:+34 943 015329
Education
Jose Ramon Leiza (Professor of Chemical Engineering) graduated from the University of the Basque Country in 1987, and obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1991 from the same university working in the monitoring and control of emulsion polymerization reactors under the supervision of Prof. J. M. Asua. In 1992 he obtained a position as assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country. In 1994 he spent a one year post-doctoral stay as research associate at the Emulsion Polymers Institute of Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA, USA) under the supervision of Prof. M.S. El-Aasser. In 1995 he was promoted to associate Professor. In 2004 he spent a sabbatical year at Queen's University (Kingston, On, Canada). In 2010 he was promoted to full Professor at the University of the Basque Country. He has served as director of the Institute of Polymer Materials, POLYMAT from 2011 to 2020.
Honors and awards
In 1993 he received the Rhone-Poulenc award in Clean Technologies organized by the Association of Engineers of Madrid (Spain).
He has published more than 174 papers, 20 book chapters and has coauthored 9 patents and he has supervised 25 PhD students. He is member of the editorial board of the Macromolecular Reaction Engineering and has served as editor in the International Journal of Polymer Science journals. He has also guest edited the special series "Sensors, Process Control and Modeling" of the journal Macromolecular Reaction Engineering. He has organized and co-chaired the International Polymer Colloids Group Conference (IPCG2017 in Arantzazu). He has co-chaired the Polymer Reaction Engineering10 conference organized by ECI (Engineering Conferences International) in Punta-Cana (Dominican Republic) in 2018.
Research
His current research interests are focused on the following topics: polymer reaction engineering aspects of polymerization in dispersed media (e.g., kinetics, modeling, high solids content formulations), waterborne polymer/inorganic hybrid nanocomposites for anticorrosion coatings, polymerization of water soluble monomers as additives for concrete, renewable resource monomers and their application for the production of novel adhesives and coatings, and electrospinning of polymer latexes.
Polymerization Processes Group