Dr. Joaquín Quesada Medina

Joaquín Quesada Medina is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Chemistry at the University of Murcia. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry.

(1991), with an Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award, and a Doctorate in Chemical Sciences, with the maximum qualification (Apt cum laude). He later got a postdoctoral assistantship of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the “Exchange of Research Personnel between Industries and Public Research Centers” that allowed him to carry out a stay of investigation of 5 months (1997) in the company Furfural Español, S.A., in its factory Alcantarilla (Murcia). 

He obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the “National Program of Training Scholarships for Research Personnel Abroad” from the Ministry of Education and Culture to carry out a 16-month postdoctoral stay (1998-1999) at the École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques, Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse (France). After this postdoctoral stay he coordinated the request for an Integrated Action between Spain and France of the Ministry of Education and Culture. After his incorporation as a contracted professor (Faculty Assistant) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Murcia in 1998 he opened two new lines research related to Organosolv extraction of lignocellulosic materials waste and the application of supercritical technology to obtain biodiesel. 

His scientific production is summarized in more than 75 paper articles. Finally, it is worth highlighting his participation in more than 20 funded research projects in regional, national and European competitive public calls, acting as Principal Investigator in 9 of them. He has also participated in 10 research contracts with private companies.