VILLAFAN VIDALES, HEIDI ISABEL

Heidi Isabel Villafán-Vidales was born in Morelia, Michoacan on 15-09-1978. I am a chemical engineer with titles of Master and Ph.D. in Energy Engineering (UNAM, 2002-2009). From 2009 to 2011, I performed a postdoctoral investigation in two institutions: Procédés, Matériaux et Énergie Solaire from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (PROMES-CNRS, France) and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa (Mexico).
Since 2012, I has been a full-time researcher at UNAM in the Instituto de Energías Renovables.
I am member of the Processes with concentrated solar energy research group. The research lines of this group includes the development of solar carbonization processes, heat transfer modelling of solar reactors and optics of solar concentration systems. 
My research interest includes the production of solar fuels or value-added chemicals with concentrated solar energy, an area in which I had published 42 research articles in JCR journal, more than 20 publications in national journals and national/international conferences, and 2 patent. I have been responsible and collaborator in different research projects.

Recent Research Grants:
DGAPA-PAPIIT: IN110110- Bio oil production through microalgae and concentrated solar energy.
DGAPA-PAPIIT: IN107923. Solar hydrothermal liquefaction of residual biomass
CONACYT – SENER- 207450-CeMIE-Sol under project No. P120 “Solar technology for the synthesis of high value products through hydrothermal processes”.