About

Education

• Bilbao School of Engineering (University of the Basque Country)	Bilbao, Spain
  Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Supercritical CO2 power cycles)	Sep 2023 – Present
  Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering (Thermodynamics)	Sep 2021 – Jun 2023
  Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering	Sep 2017 – Jun 2021

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Experience

• Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas	Getxo, Spain
  Thermodynamic Process Engineer	Nov 2022 – Present, Full-time

  • Designed, modeled, simulated and optimized thermodynamic cycles for multiple power generation industrial plants, including combined cycle units, cogenerations, simple Rankine cycles and ORC modules, among others.

  • Monitored the performance of multiple thermo-solar power plants (CSP), with parabolic trough collectors (TMO, Spain) and central tower technologies (NOOR3, Morocco).

  • Designed and programmed the backend and thermodynamic calculations of a multipurpose monitoring tool for a CSP plant owning client.

  • Led the digitalization of the tools and methods of the Thermodynamic Process department, transitioning from Microsoft Excel based solutions to automated scripts in Python.

• Ph.D. Student at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)	Bilbao, Spain
  Industrial Engineer, Department of Energy Engineering	Sep 2023 – Present, Part-time

  • Involved in a part-time Ph.D. program in my free time, researching and optimizing supercritical CO₂ cycle configurations for power generation. Giving special importance to exergy and different types of efficiency of the cycle and its components.

  • A first publication has been prepared, contextualizing the state of the art of alternatives to this innovative technology, specifically applied to a real ongoing project in a certain industry, comparing a solution based on a simple Rankine cycle and an ORC module.

  • A second article benchmarking different supercritical CO₂ power cycle configurations is being developed.

  • The third and final article of the thesis will propose an innovative thermodynamic cycle configuration which will allow for heat sources with a wide range of temperatures, to be fully leveraged with a single supercritical CO₂ power cycle.

  • The work done in this program has also been presented at the CNIT14 International Conference, in June 2025 in Zaragoza, Spain.

• Tejados Otazua	Arrieta, Spain
  Industrial Engineer, Modeling and Drafting	Sep 2021 – Present, Part-time

  • Creation, design, and drafting of wooden structures for roofs and coverings.

  • 3D design of joints and machining of beam connections, hip rafters, common rafters, dormers, etc., using CAD software (Fusion 360).

  • Generation, dimensioning and annotating of 2D drawings for the breakdown of structures, preparing the necessary machining for the proper assembly of wooden elements.

• Bisky Team	Bilbao, Spain
  Industrial Engineer, Propulsion Department	Sep 2019 – Jul 2023, Part-time

  • Alongside the university studies, participated in a university rocket team, named Bisky Team.

  • Led the development of N₂O-paraffin combustion based hybrid rocket engines, as the Chief of the Propulsion Department and Project Manager of the M2 hybrid engine.

  • Gained knowledge in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), programming, aerodynamics, avionics, and instrumentation and control, among others.

Programming Projects

• CoolProp Add-in for Excel

  • Implementation and maintenance of an open-source Excel add-in (Excel-DNA/.xll) that exposes CoolProp functions in engineering units (°C, bar, kJ/kg). Supports thermodynamic properties of real fluids and moist air, array range inputs and mixtures; includes diagnostic utilities and is published on GitHub under the MIT license — enables reproducible thermal calculations directly in spreadsheets.

• Embedded meteorology project

  • Embedded IoT project: ESP32 firmware (ESP-IDF), MQTT topology and Orange Pi backend with FastAPI and SQLite. Includes sensor drivers, self-hosted deployment and demo; MIT license.

• Other work-in-progress projects | GitHub

  • Quantitative finance backend: Rust framework (Polars, ScaledInt) for quantitative workflows — WIP; see GitHub for details.

  • Thermodynamic systems solver backend: Rust framework with CoolProp integration for thermodynamic modelling and solvers — WIP; see GitHub for details.

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