Patricia Andreu

Experience

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  ITC - Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica

  Jul 2012 - Sept 2012

  Internship in a tecnical laboratory
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  Universitat Jaume I

  Nov 2012 - Jun 2013

  Research Assistant

  Research scholarship from the Department for Education. Collaboration with the Polymers and Advanced materials research group in the University Jaume I. • Formulation and characterization of polymers, such as the study of transition temperature (DMA).

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  Universitat Jaume I

  Oct 2013 - Sept 2014

  Researcher Assistant

  Participation in the research project “Efficiency improvement of Steam Generation processes by Solar Radition using Nanofluids - NanoSteam ”.• Study of thermal properties (LFA, DSC, and TGA) of thermal energy storage materials, such as solar salt.• Study of the enhancement of thermal properties such as conductivity, latent heat or specific capacity with the addition of nanoparticles.

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  University of Birmingham

  Nov 2014 - Sept 2019

  The project sponsored by Procter & Gamble, has the aim of developing a modular cleaning/deposition model that can be fully/partially reapplied across many different product applications. The work is divided in three sections:- Building new cleaning capability to correlate stain properties with cleanability.- Developing new methods to quickly translate mechanistic insights to new formulations.- Accelerating seed projects, mentoring PhD students and cross-fertilization of ideas from one project to another. Show less The project entitled “Modelling of dissolution kinetics of structured particles” is aiming to understand and predict dissolution kinetics based on the structural characteristics of particulate systems. The main objectives were a) material formulation and characterization - establishing methods to analyse the structure of detergent powders in order to determine structural descriptor such as porosity, particle size and location of domains within the granule (including: SEM, Mercury porosimetry, FTIR, IR microscope and 3D image processing of X-ray microtomography analyses) b) dissolution performance – evaluating the mass transfer performance of the structured powders (Electrical conductivity and UV-Vis absorbance) and c) analyses – establishing correlations between the structural factors and the dissolution profiles (MATLAB). Show less

  • Research Fellow

    Feb 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chemical Engineering

    Nov 2014 - Jan 2018
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  Procter & Gamble

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2016

  Doctoral Intern
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  Procter & Gamble

  Oct 2019 - now

  Scientist