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- BS in Chemical Engineering, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a PhD at the Universtiy of Barcelona (1999). She's researcher and teacher at the ICTA (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
- Gara holds a Juan de la Cierva postdoc position at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Presently, her research is focused in industrial ecology, renewable energy resources, and education in environmental sciences. Within industrial ecology, she concentrates on the accounting of chemicals in our society, from their extraction to their use and final disposal or dissipation, establishing what-if scenarios and questioning present use in view of policy and future needs.
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Publications
· Using the Recyclability Index as a Tool for Design for Disassembly. Ecological Economics, vol 50(3-4), 2004.
· A Proposal for Emissions Calculations, part I. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, pending publication, 2006.
· Accounting for Fluorine: Production, Use, and Loss. Journal of Industrial Ecology, pending publication, 2006.
· A Proposal for Quantifying the Recyclability of Materials; Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol 37 (1), Dec 2002, 39-53.
· Removal of NH4+ and PO43- from Wastewater Resulting from Cochineals Dye Extract. Water Research Volum: 37, 2003,1601-1607.
• Laura Talens, Gara Villalba, Xavier Gabarrell. Exergy Analysis applied to biodiesel production. Resources, Conservation & Recycling. Accepted 18 October 2006. Available online 21 November (2006).
Talens Peiró, Laura, Villalba Méndez, Gara, Gabarrell, Xavier. Exergy analysis of integrated waste management in the recovery and recycling of used cooking oils. Environmental Science & Technology. (In Press 2008) , 2008
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Biography
Gara holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering (MIT 1998). Before entering the PhD program in 1999 at the Universtiy of Barcelona, she worked in the consulting world, in small business solutions. Her thesis, also in the department of chemical engineering, developed a methodology for quantifying the recyclability of materials. Presently she is a researcher at ICTA and also teaches the Industrial Ecology course of the PhD program in Environmental Sciences.
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