César Pulgarin
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Expertise
- Mechanistic study of Advanced Oxidation Processes AOPs (i.e. electrochemical, TiO2 photo-assisted, ultrasound, photo-Fenton) and their combinations for chemical and biological pollutants treatment in industrial and domestic wastewater
- Action mode of solar light during inactivation of bacteria and virus in water and surfaces.
- Coupling of biological and AOP systems for industrial waste-waters treatment
- Design, preparation, chemical characterization, activity evaluation and mechanistic description of (nano) materials with (photo)catalytic activity pour environmental applications
- Development of supported self-cleaning and self-disinfecting (photo) actives devices with potential use to fight hospital infections
Mission
Research and education on processes for a better water treatment , fighting of nosocomial hospital infection with (photo)active nanomaterials and overall environmental protection
Current Work
- From 2019, advisor on: 1) my research expertise 2) organization and management of research teams and universities 3) scientific projects mounting 4) good practices to do research and publishing in my fields
- Cooperation in research projects with colleagues from Latin America
- Support for supervision of MS and PH D from these countries
Publications illustrating whole research topics:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=pwynQrEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cesar-Pulgarin?ev=hdr_xprf
For the Impact of my research: select Field-Specific Ranking then Chemical Ingineering in :
https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/cesar-pulgarin/1134734
Curriculum vitae
Education
Chemist from Lausanne University, Master in environmental chemistry from Geneva University, PhD in bio-inspired synthesis of natural substances from Neuchâtel University, Two Post PhDs: 1- electrochemistry and 2-biological engineering from EPFL.
Main past professional activity
- Taught and led a research group during 30 years at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) the word 10th institute in chemistry https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/chemistry
Important milestones
Important milestones
Ø Participated in twenty international projects in 4 continents including 8 from European Union
Ø Supervised of 44 PhD & post PhD and 180 Master plus invited Ph D students training
Ø Did 295 peer reviewed publications in Scopus and 21 book chapters
Ø The average IF of journals in which his papers were published between 2018 and 2024 is 15
Ø His H index of 77 and 20'742 citations in Scopus and 88 and 27’600 citations in Scholar Google
Ø Has several seminal papers and is the 1st to 4th world most cited author in his research fields
Ø Did a hundred of plenary and key conferences in congress and other frameworks
Ø Was member of the scientific committee of the most important conferences of AOPs
Ø Was member of of the scientific committee of two European doctoral school in his field
Ø Contributed to the development of two patents and two startups
Ø Led during 25 years a cooperation between EPFL and several Colombian universities
Ø Did 103 papers with Colombian pairs including the 1st - 2th Colombian publications in his field
Ø Is international expert for the evaluation of Ph. D. thesis, projects and research teams
Ø Taught during 10 years and supervised two Ph D and 8 Master students in 2IE Burkina Faso
Ø Represented Switzerland in the European Association of Photocatalysis
Ø Is co-funder of “Asociacion Colombiana de Investigadores en Suiza” (ACIS)
Main awards
Main awards
- Applied Catalysis B (IF: 22.1) the first of 228 journals in his field devoted in 2020 a special issue on his honor as he was at that moment the 4th most published author in in this 1rst ranked journal of his domain
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-special-issue-of-applied-catalysis-b-in-honor--2/
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-special-issue-of-applied-catalysis-b-in-honor--2/
- Emeritus Professor from EPFL
- Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
- Most important Colombian National Awards in Sciences in 2022 (Vida y Obra)
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from Ibero- American Congress of Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Gran Cruz del Valle from Valle University
- Dr Honoris Causa from Caldas University
- Gold Book from Valencia University,
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from European Doctoral School onf Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Honorary Member of the Colombian Congress of AOPs
- For the Impact of my research: select Field-Specific Ranking then Chemical Ingineering in :
- Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
- Most important Colombian National Awards in Sciences in 2022 (Vida y Obra)
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from Ibero- American Congress of Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Gran Cruz del Valle from Valle University
- Dr Honoris Causa from Caldas University
- Gold Book from Valencia University,
- Awards for his Distinguished Career from European Doctoral School onf Advanced Oxidation Processes
- Honorary Member of the Colombian Congress of AOPs
- For the Impact of my research: select Field-Specific Ranking then Chemical Ingineering in :
https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/cesar-pulgarin/1134734