Maria Olea

Keywords:

• heterogeneous catalysis
• volatile organic compounds elimination and biomass
• waste polymers
• municipal solid waste conversion
• environmentally friendly fuels

Expertise:

Maria, who is originally from Romania and has more than 37 years’ experience in teaching and research, came to Teesside University in January 2007. After leaving Romania in 1999, where she, as an Associate Professor (Reader) in Chemical Engineering with Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, was teaching chemical engineering and physical chemistry to undergraduate and postgraduate students along with doing research on electrochemical reactors and processes for 17 years, Maria spent two and a half years at the University of Tokyo, where she taught MA students and worked on gold catalysis. She also spent five years at Ghent University in Belgium, where she taught MA and PhD students and worked on a research project covering multiple aspects of heterogeneous catalysis and its environmental applications. At Teesside, Maria is working on several research projects on heterogeneous catalysts and catalysis in her quest to save the planet for future generations, including volatile organic compounds elimination and biomass, waste polymers and municipal solid waste conversion into environmentally friendly fuels and valuable chemicals.

Contact:

Website:  https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/fulltime/staff_profile_details.cfm?staffprofileid=U0023147