Claudia Pacheco is a researcher from Peru.
In 2022 she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, with a thesis financed by the Catholic University of Santa Maria (Arequipa, Peru) together with Memtech research group, formed by peruvian researchers who returned to Peru after having completed their doctoral studies abroad.
She studied her master at the University of San Agustin (Arequipa, Perú) and defended her master thesis funded by PROCIENCIA (National Program of Scientific Research and Advanced Studies) to obtain the degree of master of science with mention in chemistry in July 2024. In May 2024 she did a 3 months internship at the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). Her research work has been focused on the synthesis and characterization of catalysts such as Iron Oxychloride (FeOCl) and Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) for Advanced Oxidation Processes in water for the degradation of emerging pollutants. With the support of her mentors, she has managed to publish three articles in Q1 scientific journals (2 of them as first author).
In June 2024, Claudia joined the MemCat project as a doctoral researcher. She is now part of the Sustainable Process Engineering group, led by Prof. Dr. Eng. Fausto Gallucci at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her role focuses on developing the membrane reactor that will be used for this project. Moreover, Claudia will test the materials produced by the project partners (i.e., membranes and catalysts) and study their integration to achieve the direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to ethylene (C2H4) through the consecutive conversions of CO2 to methanol (CH3OH) and CH3OH to C2H4. Additionally, she will collaborate with the University of Calabria (UNICAL) to support the development of Carbon Molecular Sieving Membranes (CMSMs) for the efficient separation of water and C2H4.