Francisco José Valdés-Parada

Francisco José Valdés-Parada Personal data Date of birth: April 26 th, 1980 Place of birth: Xalapa, Ver., Mexico Contact data Postal address: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Izt Edif. T-203, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina C.P. 09340, Iztapalapa, D.F., Mexico Tel. +52(55) 58044648 ext. 283 e-mail: iqfv@xanum.uam.mx EDUCATION (2004-2007) Philosophy Doctor, Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico city. Thesis: Boundary conditions for transport between multiphase media (available in Spanish and English). Exam date: May 9 th, 2007. (2002-2004) Master in Science, Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico city. Thesis: Dynamics of two phase reactors with approximate kinetics (in Spanish). Exam date: April 28 th, 2004. (1997-2002) Bachelor degree, Chemical Engineering. Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Graduate with honors. POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS (2008-2009) Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, USA School of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineering. Collaboration with Dr. Brian D. Wood. (2007-2008) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico city Department of Process Engineering and Hydraulics. Collaboration with Dr. J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Current working position Visiting professor of the department of Engineering in Energy Resources of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa (Sep 2009-Aug 2010).

Teaching experience Asociación Pedagógica de Xalapa A.C., participation in the preparation course for the admission exam to Universidad Veracruzana. Assignments imparted: Mathematics, physics and Chemistry, 2001. Pre-college mathematics, UAM-Iztapalapa, (Sep-Dec 2005, Sep-Dec 2006, Sep-Dec 2007). Transport phenomena I, UAM-Iztapalapa, (Sep-Dec 2009). Transport phenomena II, UAM-Iztapalapa, (Sep-Dec 2005, Jan-Jun 2008, Apr-Jul, 2010). Partial differential equations, UAM-Iztapalapa, (Jan-Apr 2006). Fluid Mechanics, UAM-Iztapalapa, (Apr-Jul 2006). Selected topics: Integral methods for the solution of transport and reaction problems, UAM- Iztapalapa, (Apr-Jul 2010). Simulation Laboratory, UAM-Iztapalapa (Jan-Apr 2007, May-Jul, 2007). Elaboration of class notes and educational material (2007) Elaboration of class notes for the assignment Simulation Laboratory. (2005). Participation in the group of professors of UAM-Iztapalapa in charge of the elaboration of didactic material for the assignment Pre-college mathematics. Administrative academic positions (2005) Part of the committee of the following of complimentary courses for the assignment Pre-college mathematics, UAM-Iztapalapa. (2003-2004) Titular representative of the mathematics and graduate students, Basic Sciences and Engineering Division, UAM-Iztapalapa. Advisor experience Eliseo Hernández Martínez, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis: Simulation of transportreaction systems using integral formulations, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa. In process. Luis Guillermo Virués Delgadillo, Chemical Engineering bachelor degree thesis, Analysis of the transient response of a stirred tank reactor by means of a hybrid approximate method, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver. Exam date: July 9 th, 2007. Carolina Conde Mejía, Chemical Engineering bachelor degree thesis, Mathematical simulation of a reactive flash in a two-phase system, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver. Exam date: November 17 th, 2006. Verónica Freyre Fonseca, Environmental Engineering bachelor degree thesis, Kinetic simplification of a dynamic enzymatic model type Briggs-Haldane, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver. Exam date: May 9 th, 2003. 2

Participation as jury of professional exams Bachelor degree exam of Luis Guillermo Virués Delgadillo, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver., July 9 th, 2007. Bachelor degree exam of Carolina Conde Mejía, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Ver., November 17 th, 2006. Collaboration as reviewer of scientific journals Advances in Water Resources (2) Acta Mechanica (1) Chemical Engineering Communications (1) Chemical Product and Process Modeling (1) Computers and Fluids (2) International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (1) Meccanica (1) Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (1) Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química (3) Superficies y Vacío (1) Transport in Porous Media (7) Editor experience in scientific journals Member of the editorial board of Journal of porous media since january, 2010 Member of the editorial board of Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media since january, 2010 Technical editor of Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química since august 2006. COURSES, INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED Advanced scheduling and planning. Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, 12 hours, January, 2005. Thermodynamics and applications (in Spanish). Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, 12 hours, January, 2005. Process and product design through ICAS. AMIDIQ, 12 hours, May, 2004. Applications of new separation technologies in chemical engineering (in Spanish). Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, 12 hours, January, 2004. 3

Modeling and polymerization reactor engineering (in Spanish). Celaya, 20 hours, January, 2004. Instituto Tecnológico de Chemical process modeling via neural networks (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana, 20 hours, November, 2001. XI Summer of scientific research. Internship with Dr. J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia, UAM- Iztapalapa, June-August, 2001. Applied Mathematics to Chemical and Environmental Engineering (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana, November, 2000. NMR and JEOL talk (in Spanish). CINVESTAV, 9 hours, October, 1999. IX Summer of scientific research. Internship with Dr. Rosalinda Contreras-Theurel, CIN- VESTAV, June-August, 1999. Selected topics of organic chemistry (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana and Asociación Farmacéutica Mexicana, A.C., 52 hours, May-June, 1999. ISO 9000 certification for industry (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana, 20 hours, October, 1997. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS National Researcher Level-I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, September, 2008. Weizmann-Kahn award in engineering and technology. Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, May, 2008. Medal to the college merit for doctoral accomplishments. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa, December, 2007. First place in the transport phenomena poster session. AMIDIQ, May, 2004. Medal to the college merit for masters accomplishments. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa, December, 2004. High performance recognition in the graduate chemical engineering exam. CENEVAL, March, 2003. Best grades recognition in the chemical engineering class of 2002. Universidad Veracruzana, March, 2002. First place in the national research contest. IMIQ, August, 2001. 4

SCHOLARSHIPS Graduate studies, CONACYT (2002-2007). Telmex foundation (1999-2006). Undergraduate studies, Universidad Veracruzana (1998-2001). INVITED COURSES Transport phenomena an understandable approach, imparted to Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, School of Chemical Engineering, August-December, 2007. SEMINARS Upscaling of multiphase processes for CO 2 sequestration. Seminar of the academic body of process engineering and complex fluids. UAM-Iztapalapa, january 20, 2010. Prediction of Effective Coefficients in Upscaling Problems. Directed to students and faculty of the engineering and basic sciences division of UAM-I, October-December, 2009. Separation of time scales in Upscaling. Environmental Engineering graduate seminar series of Oregon State University. Corvallis, Or., USA, May, 2009. Mathematical modeling on Engineering at the departmental seminar of the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of Universidad Veracruzana, October, 2008. About the one and two-domain approaches to describe transport in porous media. Applied and Computational Mathematics seminar of the Department of Mathematics of UAM-Iztapalapa. Mexico city, Mexico, June, 2008. Statement and solution of transport problems in multiphase systems. Departmental seminar of Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya. Celaya, Gto., Mexico, February, 2008. PUBLICATIONS Book Valdés-Parada F.J.; Roldán Rico M.A.; Thermal Engineering (in Spanish), colección Textos universitarios, editorial UV, 2004, ISBN 968-834-635-7, 317 pp. Published papers 1. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2010). On the effective diffusivity under chemical reaction in porous media. Chemical Engineering Science, 65, 4100-4104. 2. Valdés-Parada F.J. (2010). Formulación integral para la solución de problemas de cerradura en procesos de escalamiento. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química, 9(1), 53-66. 5

3. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Narayanaswamy K., Ford R., Wood B.D. (2009). Upscaling microbial chemotaxis in porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 32, 1413-1428. 4. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2009). Computation of Jump Coefficients for Momentum Transfer Between a Porous Medium and a Fluid Using a Closed Generalized Transfer Equation. Transport in Porous Media, 78, 439-457. 5. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2009). Jump Condition for Diffusive and Convective Mass Transfer Between a Porous Medium and a Fluid Involving Adsorption and Chemical Reaction. Transport in Porous Media, 78, 459-476. 6. Valdés-Parada F.J., Soria A., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2009). On the Effective Density for Compressible Flow in Porous Media. Physica A, 388, 3288-3296. 7. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J. (2009). Non-standard finite-differences schemes for generalized reaction-diffusion equations. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 228, 334-343. 8. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2009). Validity of the permeability Carman-Kozeny equation: A volume averaging approach. Physica A, 388, 789-798. 9. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2009). Non-standard finite-differences schemes for reaction-diffusion equations in curvilinear coordinates. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 33, 277-286. 10. Valdés-Parada F.J., Sales-Cruz A.M., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2008). An Integral Equation Formulation for Solving Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Boundary-Value Problems. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, 6, A61. 11. Morales-Zárate E., Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2008). Diffusion and reaction in three-phase systems: Average transport equations and jump boundary conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 138, 307-332. 12. Alvarez-Ramirez, J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2008). A Lattice-Boltzmann scheme for Cattaneo s diffusion equation. Physica A, 387, 1475-1484. 13. Valdés-Parada F.J., Sales-Cruz M., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2008). On Green s function methods to solve nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 32, 503-511. 14. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2007). Analysis of mass transport and reaction problems using Green s functions (in Spanish). RMIQ, 6, 283-294. 15. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2007). Diffusive mass transport in fluid-porous medium inter-region: Closure problem solution for the one-domain approach. Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 6054-6068. 16. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2007). On the effective viscosity for the Darcy-Brinkman equation. Physica A, 385, 69-79. 6

17. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2007). Jump momentum boundary condition at a fluid-porous inter-region: Derivation of the closure problem. Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 4025-4039. 18. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2007). A Green s function formulation for finite-differences schemes. Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 3083-3091. 19. Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2007). A fractional-order Darcy s law. Physica A, 374, 1-14. 20. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2007). Effective medium equations for fractional Fick s law in porous media. Physica A, 373, 339-353. 21. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Alvarez-Ramirez J. (2006). Effective medium equation for fractional Cattaneo s diffusion and heterogeneous reaction in disordered porous media. Physica A, 369, 318-328. 22. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Fernandez-Anaya G., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2006). A high-order extension for the Cattaneo s diffusion equation. Physica A, 368, 345-354. 23. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Marroquín de la Rosa J.O., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2006). An Improved Short-Cut Method for Effectiveness Factor Estimation. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 1542-1547. 24. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2006). Diffusive mass transfer between a microporous medium and an homogeneous fluid: Jump boundary conditions. Chemical Engineering Science, 61, 1692-1704. 25. Valdés-Parada F.J., Espinoza-Paredes G. (2005). Darcy s Law for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow: A Theoretical Development. Journal of Porous Media, 8, 557-567. 26. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2005). Low-order models for catalyst particles: A dynamic effectiveness factor approach. AIChE Journal, 51, 3219-3230. 27. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2005). An Approximate Solution for a Transient Two-Phase Stirred Tank Bioreactor with Nonlinear Kinetics. Biotechnology Progress, 21, 1420-1428. 28. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (2005). Some Remarks on nonextensive specific heat properties. Physics Letters A, 345, 231-236. 29. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Fernandez-Anaya G., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia, J.A. (2005). Physical consistency of generalized linear driving force models for adsorption in a particle. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 44, 6776-6783. 30. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Valdés-Parada F.J. (2005) Dynamic effectiveness factor for catalyst particles. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 11058-11064. 31. Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J.J. (2005). Short-Cut Method for the estimation of isothermal effectiveness factors. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 44, 3947-3953. 7

Accepted manuscripts 1. Bolster D., Valdés-Parada F.J., LeBorgne T., Dentz M., Carrera J. (2010). Mixing in confined stratified aquifers. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Wood B.D. (2010).The Role of Tortuosity in Upscaling. Transport in Porous Media. Works presented in congress meetings 1. Freyre-Fonseca V., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Poster). Análisis de la transferencia de calor en azoteas verdes. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 2. Lugo-Méndez H.D., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Modelo aproximado del coeficiente de dispersión en medios porosos. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 3. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Escalamiento de ecuaciones de transporte de energía en un tanque agitado. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 4. Romero-Paredes H., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Talk). Modelado de un reactor solar para el cracking de metano. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 5. Flores-Romero E.K., Hernandez-Luna G., Aguilera-Romero E.A., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Poster). Sobre la suposición de estado cuasiestacionario en el transporte de calor de una ventana doble. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 6. Castillo-Jimenez V., Gabino-Zamora A., Astudillo-Velázquez A.J., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Poster). Diseño de una parrilla para la reducción de pérdidas de energía en estufas convencionales. XXXI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Huatulco, Oaxaca, May, 2010. 7. Bolster D., Valdés-Parada F.J., Le Borgne T., Dentz M., Carrera-Ramirez J. (Talk). Quantifying Mixing in Confined Stratified Aquifer Flows. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco Ca., December 14-18, 2009. 8. Porter M.L., Valdés-Parada F.J., Wood B.D. (Talk). Modeling Transverse Chemotaxis in Porous Media. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco Ca., December 14-18, 2009. 9. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Wood B.D. (Talk). Should tortuosity still be used in upscaling? AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco Ca., December 14-18, 2009. 10. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). A Semianalytical Expression for the Computation of the Stress Jump Coefficient. XXX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May, 2009. 11. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Wood B. (Talk). Physical Interpretation of Closure Variables in Volume Averaging. XXX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May, 2009. 8

12. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Wood B. (Talk). Upscaling of Microbial Chemotaxis in Porous Media. XXX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May, 2009. 13. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Wood B. (Talk). Separation of Time Scales in Upscaling. XXX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May, 2009. 14. Valdés-Parada F.J., Porter M.L., Narayanaswamy K., Ford R., Wood B. (Poster). Effective Medium Equations for Chemotaxis in Porous Media. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, Ca., USA, December, 2008. 15. Porter M.L., Valdés-Parada F.J., Wood B. (Poster). Separation of Time Scales for transient dispersion. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, Ca., USA, December, 2008. 16. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Determination of the effective diffusion coefficient using the method of separation of variables (in Spanish). XXIX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2008. 17. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). Analysis of mass transport between multiphase systems using an equation valid in the entire domain (in Spanish). XXIX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2008. 18. Valdés-Parada F.J., Sales-Cruz M., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). Prediction of retardation coefficients through numerical experiments (in Spanish). XXIX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2008. 19. Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Talk). About the relation of the transport and design equations in unit operations (in Spanish). XXIX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2008. 20. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Heat conduction with chemical reaction in three-phase systems: Effective medium equations and jump boundary conditions. Eurotherm 81. École des Mines d Albi, France, June, 2007. 21. Virués-Delgadillo L.G., del Real-Olvera J., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Poster). Analysis of the transient response of a CSTR using a hybrid approximate method (in Spanish). XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Col., Mexico, May, 2007. 22. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Mass transfer jump condition in three-phase systems (in Spanish). XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Col., Mexico, May, 2007. 23. Valdés-Parada F.J., Sales-Cruz M., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). Use of Green s functions in the solution of mass transport problems with chemical reaction (in Spanish). XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Col., Mexico, May, 2007. 24. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). One-domain approach for diffusive mass transport in porous media (in Spanish). XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Col., Mexico, May, 2007. 9

25. Valdés-Parada F.J., Sales-Cruz M., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). Effect of the surface reaction in macroscopic systems (in Spanish). XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Col., Mexico, May, 2007. 26. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Momentum stress jump condition at the fluid-porous boundary: Prediction of the jump coefficient. AIChE annual meeting, San Francisco, Ca., USA, 2006. 27. Virués-Delgadillo L.G., del Real-Olvera J., Valdés-Parada F.J. (Poster). Simulation of an anaerobic CSTR for industrial wastewater treatment (in Spanish). XXVII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2006. 28. Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Anomalous diffusion and reaction in disordered porous media (in Spanish). XXVII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2006. 29. Alvarez-Ramirez J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). The effectiveness factor as a low-order model in catalytic particles (in Spanish). XXVII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2006. 30. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Momentum transfer jump condition at the fluid-porous medium boundary (in Spanish). XXVII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2006. 31. Valdés-Parada F.J., Goyeau B., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Jump condition at the boundary between a porous catalyst and a homogeneous fluid. Fourth International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer. Paris, France, May, 2005. 32. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Jump condition at the fluid-microporous medium boundary (in Spanish). XXVI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2005. 33. Ochoa-Tapia J.A., Valdés-Parada F.J., Alvarez-Ramirez J. Short-cut method for the estimation of effectiveness factors with non-linear kinetics (in Spanish). XXVI Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2005. 34. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). An approximate solution for a transient two phase-cstr with non-linear kinetics. 16 th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering. Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2004. 35. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Talk). Approximate solution of a two-phase continuous stirred-tank bioreactor with Micaelis-Menten kinetics (in Spanish). XXV Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2004. 36. Valdés-Parada F.J., Pérez-Cisneros E.S., Ochoa-Tapia J.A. (Poster). One-step reactive separation with mass transport limitations (in Spanish). XXV Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico, May, 2004. 37. Freyre-Fonseca V., Valdés-Parada F.J., del Real-Olvera J. (poster). Evaluation of the kinetics of a dynamic enzymatic model simple and with inhibition (in Spanish). XXIV Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2003. 10

38. Valdés-Parada F.J., Fuentes-Zurita G. (Talk). Specific heat of nanocrystals (in Spanish). XXIV Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Ixtapa, Gro., Mexico, May, 2003. 39. Valdés-Parada F.J., Ochoa-Tapia J., del Real-Olvera J. (Poster). Analytical solution for dibenzothiophene hydrodesulfurization (in Spanish). XXIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Pátzcuaro, Mich., Mexico, May, 2002. 40. Valdés-Parada F.J., del Real-Olvera J., Freyre-Fonseca V. (Poster). Kinetic simplification of an enzymatic-dynamic model type Briggs-Haldane (in Spanish). XXIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Pátzcuaro, Mich., Mexico, May, 2002. 41. Valdés-Parada F.J., del Real-Olvera J., Freyre-Fonseca V. (Talk). Kinetic simplification of an enzymatic-dynamic model type Briggs-Haldane (in Spanish). XIII Foro Nacional de Ingeniería Química y II Coloquio de Investigación. Orizaba, Ver., Mexico, April, 2002. 42. Valdés-Parada F.J., del Real-Olvera J., Ochoa-Tapia J. (Talk). Analytical solution for dibenzothiophene hydrodesulfurization (in Spanish). XIII Foro Nacional de Ingeniería Química y II Coloquio de Investigación. Orizaba, Ver., Mexico, April, 2002. 43. Valdés-Parada F.J. (Talk). Mathematical formulation of a cyclone for the reduction of industrial emissions (in Spanish). XVII Student National Reunion of IMIQ. Mérida, Yuc., Mexico, August, 2001. 44. del Real-Olvera J., Valdés-Parada F.J., Pérez G. (Talk). Mathematical formulation of a cyclone for the reduction of environmental emissions (in Spanish). VI Encuentro nacional de ciencias ambientales Pachuca, Hid., Mexico, May, 2001. Chairman in congress meetings 1. Transport Phenomena session in the XXX Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May, 2009. 2. Materials session in the XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de la AMIDIQ. Manzanillo, Colima, May, 2007. LANGUAGES Spanish. Mother language. English. Computer-Based TOEFL, 270 points (equivalent to 625 points in the written exam), September, 2003. French. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Diploma of accreditation of French language for doctoral level, January, 2008. 11