Dr. José M. Carvajal Arroyo

José M Carvajal-Arroyo obtained his PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2013 at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the University of Arizona (US). In 2014 he moved to Belgium to work as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) at Ghent University (Belgium) were he has worked until 2020. Jose’s research work has focused on the development of advanced processes for the biological nitrogen removal from wastewater (namely partial nitritation-anammox, mesophilic and thermophilic), development of fermentation processes (chain elongation) for the recovery of carbon from agroindustrial sidestreams and effluents, fermentation processes for CO2 utilization (gas fermentation – microbial electrosyntesis) and electrochemical processes for the extraction and upconcentration of fermentation products. Jose has co-supervised 2 PhD students, and a number of MS students. He has joined METFilter as a postdoctoral researcher through the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie MSCA-IF program to work on the removal of N pollution from wastewater in constructed wetlands. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-5280.