students and outstanding graduates
Chemistry school
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graduate
Nelson Moreno Zafra
He has contributed to the development of the fats and oils sector by working in industries in the sector, and currently serves as Director of Research and Development of Ecodiesel.
Graduate
Diego Camilo Durán García
He works in the Bio-Red-CO-CENIVAM Temporary Union, as Technical Coordinator of the productive projects carried out here, including the Bioprospecting Program and development of natural ingredients for the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and toiletries industries based on Colombian biodiversity. His participation has contributed to the development of several patents among these: the process for obtaining geraniol of natural origin, the continuous process for the integral use of Lippia origanoides and the antioxidant photoprotector that have already been granted and others are in the process of application as the antioxidant dye and the repellent air freshener.
Graduate
Jesica Julieth Mejía Medina
She worked in the Bio-Red-CO-CENIVAM Temporary Union and contributed to the development of the patent application process for the antioxidant dye and the patent granted for the continuous process for the integral use of Lippia origanoides.
Graduate
Lady Johanna Sierra Prada
She worked in the Bio-Red-CO-CENIVAM Temporary Union and contributed to the development of the patent application process for the antioxidant dye.
Graduate
Martha Liliana Chacón
She works at the research faculty of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, in Florida, establishing active collaborations with Colombian research groups. Additionally, in her doctoral research she contributed to the development, together with professors Cristian Blanco and Yajaira Combariza, of the patent on Bionanocomposite material useful in the removal of contaminants in liquid matrices and method for its synthesis. Patent Registration No. 12146361.
Graduate
Iván Darío Gómez Robayo
During his PhD studies, he participated in the development of the patents of the Process to obtain a composite material from graphene oxide functionalized with noble metal nanoparticles synthesized “In situ” by laser ablation and composite material thus obtained and the Process to obtain a graphene composite material with magnetic properties by in situ functionalization of graphene oxide with magnetite nanoparticles and composite material thus obtained, together with Professor Rafael Cabanzo and Enrique Mejía from the LEAM Group.
Graduate
Jaime Alberto Castillo León
Chemist graduated from the program in 2000, PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Lund in Sweden in 2005. He is currently a Senior Scientist at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Denmark.
Graduate
Guillermo Restrepo
He is currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at Sciences Leipzig, Germany. He is mainly engaged in mathematical chemistry and its relation to philosophy and history of chemistry. He received the 2020 Gmelin-Beilstein Denkmünze 2020 of the German Chemical Society.
Graduate
Josué Sebastián Bello Forero
Chemist graduated from Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia, 2007), Master (2010) and PhD (2014) in Chemical Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, working in the area of organic photochemistry. He has experience in Chemistry, focusing on Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy, performing in the following subjects: Organic Synthesis, Green Chemistry and Photochemistry. He is an associate professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Graduate
María Camila Blanco Jaimes
Chemist with excellent leadership, organizational, problem solving and management skills. She has accumulated 5 years of experience working in regulatory affairs with chemical regulations, such as REACH and BPR, as well as emerging regulations similar to global REACH.
Head of Global Commercialization – Regulatory Affairs at Merck Life Science. Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
2010 – 2014: Doctor of Science in Organic Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
2007 – 2010: Master of Science (M.Sc.) Thesis in Organic Chemistry- Universidad Industrial de Santander.
2002 – 2007: Undergraduate Degree in Chemistry-Summa Cum Laude-Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Graduate
German Gómez Ríos
German Gomez received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia, under the mentorship of Elena Stashenko. After more than 2 years working at the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses as a chemist, he moved to Canada where he received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Waterloo. Under the supervision of Janusz Pawliszyn, he specialized in sample preparation coupled with mass spectrometry technologies. He is currently working at Restek Corporation on the development of sample preparation and separation technologies coupled to mass spectrometry instrumentation (and other detection systems) that facilitate rapid qualitative and quantitative analysis of complex matrices.
Graduate
Rodolfo Bayona Plata
Brenntag Group Latin America (Jan. 2019 – present, Medellín) Vice president of operations and supply chain for.
Orbis Group:
Chief Executive Officer, Sept. 2016 – Jun. 2018.
CEO, Sept. 2016 – Jun. 2018, Medellín, Colombia
The Dow Chemical Co (Total duration 25 years and 3 months).
Director of Technical Service and Freight Sales Dow Coating Material for North America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Global Head of Industrial Coatings Cargo R&D, Shanghai, China
Asia Pacific Cargo R&D Leader for Polyurethanes and Specialty Chemicals, Shanghai, China
Global Freight Development Leader, Michigan, USA
Freight Technical Service Leader for Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil
Technical Service and Freight Development, Bogota, Colombia
Graduate
Fabio Aguirre Vargas
Dow Inc.
Principal Scientist for the global polyurethanes business.
Lake Jackson, Texas 2015 – present.
Dow Chemical Company
Research and development chemist for the global epoxy powder resins business.
Freeport, Texas 2005 – 2015.
Dow Europe GmbH. Freienbach
Switzerland 2003 – 2005.
Dow Europe GmbH
Research and development chemist for the global polyurethane flexible foams business.
Meyrin, Switzerland, 1999 – 2003.
Dow Colombia
Development and Technical Service Chemist for the polyurethanes business in the Andean area, Central America and the Caribbean.
Bogota 1989 – 1999.
Graduate
Andrés Mauricio Escorcia Cabrera
Research Associate at the University of Bristol (UK), in the group of Dr. Marc van der Kamp (Computational Enzymology and Biochemistry) – https://vanderkampgroup.wordpress.com/. Mainly in charge of the computational work of a combined computational and experimental research project aimed at engineering terpene synthases. This project is funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). In cooperation with experimentalists from Professor Rudolf Allemann’s group at Cardiff University (UK) – https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/allemann/, simulations performed by Andres are used to guide the design of mutant enzymes that can selectively produce high yields of certain complex terpenoids. Given the importance of these compounds for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries, the results of this research will be of great relevance worldwide. In addition to this, Andrés collaborates with other research groups in the UK, Chile and Colombia performing or advising on complex simulations of biological systems such as rhodopsins, mono-terpene synthases and lipases.
Graduate
Ángela Susana Rodríguez Serrano
Graduated from the School of Chemistry of the UIS both from the undergraduate program in chemistry (2008) and the PhD program in Chemistry (Directors: Martha Daza and Markus Doerr, 2014). She works in the area of molecular organic photophysics, studying energy decay processes in photosensitizers using quantum chemistry. She has completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the Max-Planck Institute and the other at the University of Duisburg – Essen in Germany. She is currently finishing her third postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Duesseldorf.
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