Affiliation: LNEG-National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, Bioenergy and Biorefineries Unit

Luis C. Duarte is a senior researcher and team leader at LNEG’s Bioenergy & Biorefineries Unit. He has been coordinating and participating in many (inter)national research projects, including direct R&D contracts with the industry aiming to upgrade biomass resources into bioproducts and biofuels. His main scientific interests span from the selective fractionation of diverse types of biomass using innovative methods to the production of high added-value products, preferably using bioconversion, to accomplish full environmental and economic sustainability for the biorefinery concept.

He is Secretary-general for the Ibero-American Society for the Development of Biorefineries and acts as an expert in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance (ESEIA), and the European Commission as a project evaluator