Dr. Héctor A. Ruiz

Dr. Héctor Arturo Ruiz Leza

E-mail: hector_ruiz_leza@uadec.edu.mx

Phone: (+52) 844 416 12 38

Biorefinery lab

Dr. Héctor A. Ruiz is a Full Professor in the School of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Coahuila since 2013

Education

Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, 2011

B.S., Chemical Engineering (with Honours), Autonomous University  of Coahuila, Mexico, 2004

Postdoc, University of Minho (Portugal) and University of Vigo (Spain), 2012

Honors and Awards

-Member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNII), Conacyt (SNII-3 distinction), 2024

-Research Award for Young Scientist in Engineering and Technology from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021
https://n9.cl/1fwxu                          https://amc.mx/Premios_folletos/FolletoPremiosAMC2021.pdf

-Researcher of the Year Award at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, 2022 

-Member of the Academy of Engineering, Mexico, 2023.                                                   https://ai.org.mx/cei-ambiental/

-Young Scientist Award at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, 2019

-Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2019. https://amc.mx/amc/membresia/INGENIERIA2024.pdf

-Editor-in-Chief of BioEnergy Research Journal, Springer, 2018 https://www.springer.com/journal/12155

-Prize “Dr. Carlos Casas Campillo” of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2016
https://smbb.mx/premios/premio-carlos-casas-campillo/

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36618033800

Scholar Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aPtCZMoAAAAJ&hl=en

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0917-0324

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hector_Ruiz20

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectoraruiz/

Loop: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/470585/overview

Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/J-4056-2014 

Biography:

Dr. Héctor A. Ruiz obtained his B.S in Chemical Engineering with honours from the Autonomous University of Coahuila (2004, Mexico) and his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Centre of Biological Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2011, and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Minho (Portugal) and University of Vigo (Spain). Dr. Ruiz worked as lead operating engineer in the chemical industry at Magnelec Industries (Subsidiary of Peñoles Group, Mexico, Feb 2005- Sep 2007). He is currently Full Professor in the School of Chemistry, founder of Biorefinery Group (www.biorefinerygroup.com) and head of the Biorefinery Pilot Plant for Biomass Fractionation at the Autonomous University of Coahuila in Mexico. Dr. Ruiz was the coordinator of the biomass pretreatment stage in the Cluster of Bioalcoholes in the Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (Cemie-Bio) from the Secretary of Energy in Mexico.

Dr. Ruiz is Editor-in-Chief of BioEnergy Research Journal (Springer), Associate Editor of Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts (Springer) and Editorial board member of Industrial Crops and Products Journal (Elsevier), Bioresource Technology (Elsevier) and Biofuel Research Journal (Alpha Creation Enterprise), ION Journal (Industrial University of Santander), Revista Internacional de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica -RIIIT (Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila). Book Editor of Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries by Springer, and Editor of 2 more international books. Guest editor of of 6 special issues in Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), Bioresource Technology Reports (Elsevier), Cleaner Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), Bioethanol Journal (De Gruyter Open Access) and Editor of the special issue “BioEnergy in Mexico” in 2016, BioEnergy Research Journal (Springer).

Dr. Ruiz has been awarded several prizes such as the Research Award for Young Scientist in the Engineering and Technology field of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; Mexican Prize “Dr. Carlos Casas Campillo” of the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Dr. Ruiz was a highly cited researcher (Top 2% in the world) within the report of Stanford University and Elsevier BV, 2021,2022 and 2023. He is author or co-author of more than 140 publications, including peer-reviewed articles and chapters with > 7,000 and 5,000 citations and h-index of 48 and 41 (Google Scholar Citations and Scopus), respectively. He is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the engineering section, and member of the Academy of Engineering, Mexico, also Dr. Ruiz is member of the national system of researchers level 3.

Dr. Ruiz works to advance lignocellulose and algal (micro-macro) biomass biorefining science and technology for the production of high added-value compounds and biofuels (bioethanol), biomass fractionation using hydrothermal and high-pressure processing (steam explosion, liquid hot water, CO2), Biochemical Engineering, sugar platform approaches to biomass conversion and bioreactor design.

Dr. Ruiz has conducted several research stays and technical visits: at University of North Texas (USA), Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil), Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory-CTBE (Brazil), in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (Canada), CIEMAT- Renewable Energy Division, Biofuels Unit (Spain), University of Jaén (Spain), Sadar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (India), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Univeristy of Concepción (Chile), Umeå University (Sweden), National Laboratory of Energy and Geology – LNEG (Portugal), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Stan Mayfield Biorefinery Plant (USA), CSIR- NIIST (India), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza (Italy), University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy),
University of Michigan (USA).

Research Interests

Biorefinery, Biochemical Engineering, Biomass, Microalgae processing, Hydrothermal Pretreatment, Process Engineering, Photobioreactors

Teaching in the School of Chemistry

• Undergraduate Courses in Chemical Engineering: Food Biotechnology, Industrial Instrumentation, Digital Process Control, Process Dynamics and Control, Reactors I, Reactors I, BioEnergy Systems, Catalysis in Biorefining 

• Postgraduate Courses: Food Engineering, Biotechnology of Fermentations, Experimental Design, Seminary III, Seminary IV