Lourdes Magadalena Orejuela Escobar

Professor

lorejuela@usfq.edu.ec

(+593 2) 297-1700

Extension

2074

Maxwell Building, M-221

Faculty

College of Sciences and Engineering

Career

Chemical Engineering

Member

Instituto BIOSFERA

Expertise area

Chemical Engineering

Biomass fractionation

Obtaining high added value products such as sugars and low molecular weight aromatic compounds

Processing of natural products

Characterization and Determination of Antioxidant and Antimi-crobial Properties

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a specialization in Science and Engineering of Macromolecules, subspecialization Biopolymers. Virginia Tech, United States.
M.S. in Wood Sciences and Forest Products, Wood Chemistry subspecialty. Virginia Tech, United States.
M.S in Chemical Engineering, Guayaquil State University, Ecuador.
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, specialization in Organic Chemical Technology. University and Polytechnic of Bucharest, Romania.