Críspulo Gallegos-Montes
Prof. Dr. Crispulo Gallegos-Montes is specialized on microstructured product engineering, with special focus on the application of Emulsion Science and Technology to the development of new products for chemical, oil, food, and pharmaceutical industries. He has published to date more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers on different subjects related to his expertise. In addition, he has participated in more than 100 research projects sponsored by different public administrations or the industry. He is also co-inventor in more than 25 patents, and Director of more than 20 Ph.D. Thesis.
Among others, the main research topics he has been involved with are:
Design of new liquid detergents
Design and characterization of surfactant liquid crystalline microstructures
Design of food/clinical nutrition emulsions
Design of new modified bitumen products
Design of new lubricating greases based on both mineral and vegetable oils
Design of new bioplastics
Design of ready-to-use lipid emulsion-based products for dysphagia management
New/alternative processes for emulsion technology
Since 2011, he is Vice-President of Fresenius Kabi Deutschland, a pharmaceutical company dealing with, among others, clinical nutrition products, many of them based on lipid emulsions. He is also Full Professor of Chemical Engineering (on leave) at the University of Huelva (Spain) and Professor of Chemical Engineering (on leave) at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Visiting Professor at different Universities, he is, since 2006, “Associated Member” (by invitation) of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (UK).
He was the President of both the Spanish Group of Rheology (1993-2006) and the European Society of Rheology (2009-2013).
Since 2011, he is a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and, since 2012, fellow of the International Academy of Engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany