Néstor Antuñano
University of Basque Country, Spain
Biography
Néstor Antuñano has completed his Chemical Engineering Degree at the age of 23 years from Higher Technical Engineering School of Bilbao (ETSIB), being complemented with a Postgraduate in Advance Materials Engineering, specializing in Metallurgical Engineering from the same university in 2009. He is a PhD in Extractive Metallurgy at University of Basque Country, working in the SuPrEn Research Group (Sustainable Process Engineering) in collaboration with BEFESA STEEL R&D. The project “Development of hydrometallurgical processes for zinc recovery from steelmaking waste" is the tittle of the defended International PhD Thesis in 2015, after a doctoral stage at Service TIPs (Transferts, Interfaces et Procédés) of Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are sustainable metallurgy, metallurgical wastes management and metal recycling. He has published more than 5 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer member of Journal of Residuals Science and Technology – DESTech Publications Inc for industrial waste treatments and Hydrometallurgy – Journal – Elsevier for zinc metallurgy. Nowadays, he works as Mineral Processing Engineer at Metallurgical Research Centre of MINERSA Group.