Rene Banares-Alcantara
Rene Banares-Alcantara is a Reader at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Senior Engineering Tutor in New College. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in the field of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Facultad de Química (UNAM), and the University of Edinburgh. He has been a principal grant holder and/or participated as coinvestigator in projects funded by the European Union, EPSRC, DURSI, MCYT, SERC, Siemens, and the ECOSSE industrial consortium (Air Products, Aspen Tech, BP, BNFL, DuPont, ICI, QuantiSci, KBC, Mitsubishi, Chemicals, Norsk Hydro, Simon Carves, SimSci, and Zeneca). His research interests are in the area of Process Systems Engineering and the development of decision support tools. Since 2014, he has been involved in projects related to long-term (chemical) storage of renewable energy, the production of “green” ammonia, and its role in decarbonizing the electricity sector.
Affiliations and expertise
Rene Banares-Alcantara is a Reader at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Senior Engineering Tutor in New College.