- 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. Maria Forsyth
- Prof. María Paulis
- Prof. Radmila Tomovska
- Dr. Nerea Casado
- Dr. Agustin Etxeberria
- Dr. Agurtzane Mugica
- Dr. Haritz Sardon
- Dr. Manoli Zubitur
- Dr. Nicholas Ballard
- Dr. Emiliano Meaurio
- Dr. Ainhoa Lejardi
- Dr. Aitor Larrañaga
- Dr. Ester Zuza
- Dr. Jaime Martín
- Dr. Fernando Ruipérez
- Dr. Jone Muñoz
- Dr. Ana Beloqui Elizazu
- Dr. Sandra Camarero Espinosa
- Dr. Robert Aguirresarobe
- Dr. Ainara Sangroniz Agudo
- Dr. Irune Villaluenga
- Dr. Miryam Criado González
- Dr. Miren Aguirre
- Dr. Gonzalo Guerrica-echevarria
- Dr. Nora Aramburu Ocariz
- Dr Itxaso Calafel Martinez
- Dr. Edurne González
- Dr. Daniele Mantione
- Prof. Timothy Edward Long
- Support Staff
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Aitor Barquero Salaberria
- Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou
- Dr. Antonio Domínguez Alfaro
- Dr. Coralie Jehanno
- Dr. Jorge Pascual Mielgo
- Dr. Iliane Rafaniello
- Dr. Naroa Sadaba
- Dr. Fermín Elizalde Iraizoz
- Dr.Jorge Luis Olmedo
- Dr. Eider Matxinandiarena
- Dr. Leire Sangroniz
- Dr. Nikolaos Politakos
- Dr. Elena Gabirondo Amenabar
- Dr. Rafael del Olmo Martínez
- Dr. Saibal Bera
- Dr. María Virginia Candal Pazos
- Dr. Antonela Gallastegui
- Dr. Edurne Gaston Estanga
- Dr. Tobias Kuhnt
- Dr. Daniel Sanchez de Alcazar
- Dr. Miguel Martín Arroyo
- Dr. Mª Soledad Orellano
- Dr. Matias Luis Picchio
- Dr. Daniela Minudri
- Dr. Yogesh Kumar Maurya
- Dr. Carlos A. Castor Jr.
- Dr. Lucas Polo da Fonseca
- Dr. Marta Ximenis
- Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad
- Dr. Daniela de Morais Zanata
- Dr. Sergio Martin Saldaña
- Dr. Xabier Telleria Allika
- Dr. Gabriele Lingua
- Dr. Kais Dhbaibi
- Dr. Miguel Angel Medel Miranda
- Dr. Upashi Goswami
- Dr. Martin Jakubec
- Dr. Elena Romero Ben
- Dr. Luis Alberto Loaeza Diaz
- Dr. Vincent Monnier
- Dr. Krishan Kumar
- Dr. Sima Lashkari
- Dr. Sergio Ramirez Barroso
- Dr. Federica Santino
- Dr. Maria del Carmen Mañas Torres
- Dr. Maria Barcenilla Castellano
- Dr. Ilaria Abdel Aziz
- Dr. Iñaki Gomez Agundez
- Dr. Andoni Rodríguez López de Abetxuko
- Dr. Danila Merino
- Dr. Fernando Vidal Peña
- PhD Students
- Hesham Ahmed Mostafa Abdeldaim
- Maialen Galdeano Fraile
- Félix Hernández Culebras
- Elisabet de Bolòs Sánchez
- Sheraz Tariq
- Huiyi Wang
- Justine Elgoyhen
- Andrea Melissa Cabrera Espinoza
- Sumi Murali Nair
- Elvis Lopes Brito
- Mehdi Naderi
- Mauro Marongiu
- Nicolas Ramos
- Maria Rosaria Caputo
- Joaquin Almarza Gonzalez
- Maria Angela Motta
- Oliver Wolfgang Etzold
- Ion Olazabal
- Mario Iván Peñas Núñez
- Carlos Bello Alvarez
- Xabier Lopez de Pariza
- Iulia Caraseva
- Oroitz Sanchez
- Maria Regato Herbella
- Valentina Pirela Wilhelm
- Richard Schönlein
- Ainara Aguirre Mikelarena
- Natalia Stankiewicz
- Jakes Udabe Sanchez
- Wichsuda Tangsongcharoen
- Ousmane Camara
- Naroa López Larrea
- Pierre Luca Stigliano
- Laura Ballester Bayarri
- Tijs Lap
- Sara Beldarrain
- Ainhoa Fernández Tena
- Roció López Domene
- Tansu Abbasoglu
- Ana Trajcheva
- Giulia Vozzolo
- Aleksandar Sladojevic
- Jacopo Teotonico
- Usue Aspiazu Iturbe
- Bruno Espuche
- Sharon Monaci
- Yilong Liao
- Jorge S. Coba Daza
- Xabier Larrañaga Etxabe
- Emelin Yhoany Luna Barrios
- Marcos Heredero Iborra
- Sergio Galve Lahoz
- Carlos E. Villacis Segovia
- Anto Puthussery Varghese
- Kevin U. Palma Lemus
- Ana Clara Rolandi
- Irene Alonso Sampedro
- Marco Caliari
- Mohammad Raef
- Ainhoa Maiz Iginitz
- Sandra Ramos Díez
- Pauline Bron
- Garazi Larrañaga Jaurrieta
- Alessandra Stevens
- Alister Josu Urain Aird
- Juan Felipe Hincapie
- Paula Fanlo Pujol
- Claire Morand
- Flore Kilens
- Seyedeh Maliheh Razavi Esfali
- Ane Olazabal
- Kiarash Farajzadehahary
- Sara Martin Colomo
- Jyoti Devanand Gupta
- Monika Fidanchevska
- Mathieu Hansel Coureur
- Mario Andres Martinez Yubero
- Clara Maria Garcia Saez
- Alejandro Herranz Berzosa
- Jon Ayestaran Uriarte
- Juan Torres Rodriguez
- Jon Lopez de la Calle Zabaleta
- Junli Liu
- Yuliana Pairetti
- Alvaro del Castillo Corral
- Neda Khatami
- Silvia Cobos Ceballos
- Rajat Rai
- Marta Mestre Membrado
- Jorge Juan Marco Guimbao
- Alba Gonda Lazkano
- Marcela de Paula Ramos
- Aitor Sánchez Pérez
- Sara Rubio Murillo
- Aritz Lamas Núñez
- Sergio Javier Peñas Núñez
- Leire San José Peraita
- Cecile Moussard
- Asier Panfilo Elechiguerra
- Isabel del Barrio Gómez
- Jon Arrizabalaga Legarra
- Pegah Sanjarnia
- Arooj Fatima
- Jackeline Soto Cruz
Prof. Jose R. Leiza
Prof. Jose R. Leiza
Coordinator
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.