Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain.

María González Alriols, Doctor in Environmental Engineering (special PhD award), Basque Country University UPV-EHU, Spain is associate professor and researcher at the Basque Country University, UPV-EHU, in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Her research field is based on biorefinery technologies from an engineer perspective, focusing on the process design, flowsheets simulation and optimization, solvents recovery, energy consumption evaluation, etc.