Alicia Valero Delgado

Alicia Valero Delgado is head of the group of industrial ecology and resource efficiency at the Research Centre for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE - Institute) and is lecturer at the University of Zaragoza in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Her more than fifteen years research activity has been focused on the identification of resource efficiency measures and the application of thermodynamics in the evaluation of resource depletion, subject from which she has received four international awards. She is the author or co-author of over 50 publications in international journals and book chapters and over 60 international conference papers, all of which relate to the analysis and optimisation of energy and the use of raw materials. She acts as advisor for the European Commission in the EIP on Raw Materials and participates in international round tables for criticality assessments of raw materials.