Gabriel Salierno

Expertise

Research and develop safer alternatives to toxic chemicals by applying green chemistry and engineering principles.

Research Interests

• Green chemical engineering.
• Implementation of safer chemicals use in manufacturing.
• 3D printing.
• Circular economy.
• Solventless critical cleaning.

Education

2017-2021: Adjoint Professor of Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations
Faculty of Agronomical Sciences and Engineering - Universidad Católica Argentina

2016: Ph.D Industrial Chemistry - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/tesis/document/tesis_n5951_Salierno

2013 - 2022: Docent of Industrial Chemistry
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences – University of Buenos Aires

2011: Master type II - Chemical Sciences
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

2009 - 2011: Docent of Industrial and Inorganic Chemistry and Science disclosure
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences – University of Buenos Aires

Biosketch

• Conducted research related to enabling technologies to scale up processes dedicated to pollution prevention and clean energy production.
• Successfully mounted and ran several customized bench and pilot-scale reactors involving slurries and solid suspensions. I also co-developed the process control of custom equipment.
• Facilitated the activities of a research group comprising scientists of diverse backgrounds to meet challenging deadlines.
• I also developed catalysts for performing heterogeneous Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation to mineralize recalcitrant organic pollutants representing textile effluents.
  
• I worked on my Ph.D. at University de Buenos Aires in Industrial Chemistry, oriented to the design and fluid dynamic characterization of reactors.
• I was able to complement my basic science training with the assembly and operation of pilot-scale equipment, adding to my skills in designing non-invasive tomography experiments.
• The application of industrial tomography techniques, such as Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) and gamma densitometry, is valuable for extracting macroscopic information from underlying flow regimes in conditions frequently encountered in many industrial processes difficult to obtain by other means due to complex rheology and opacity.
• I used the tomographic data to validate simulations to describe multiphase flows.
• I tested my data processing skills to verify models aimed at describing key processes for producing clean energy, such as biomass-based hydrogen and second-generation bioethanol.
• As a docent, I was the first to conceive and teach green chemical engineering courses. Some of the classes are uploaded to my YouTube channel (so far, in Spanish only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFFLUYbVrA3MpRJY7_6T7Q
• I also embraced the practical side of 3D-Printing beyond the production of amusing designs. My role in this context was as a supplier of a crucial part that otherwise would have been prohibitively expensive for a laboratory located in a developing country with scarce access to resources for research.

Selected Awards and Honors

34th International Chemistry Olympiad: Bronze medal (2002)

Selected Publications

Selected Presentations

Sustentabilidad y quimica industrial (Spanish)

Industrial tomography techniques based on the use of gamma radiation and their impact on chemical engineering development

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow I Åbo Akademi University, Finland (2020 - 2021)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow I Universidad Católica Argentina (2018 - 2020)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow I Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016 - 2018)

Research Currently in Progress

• Safer alternatives to hard to replace PFAS
• Assessment of new generation flame retardants
• Drive to zero use of halogenated solvents in Massachusetts