Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma
Professor of Chemistry at the Instituto de Quimica, Universidad de Antioquia, Columbia
“Elimination of relevant pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater from Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process”
Event: 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST2019). Rhodes, Greece.
Partner Organisation: Global Network on Environmental Science and Technology (GlobalNEST)
Date: 4-7 September 2019
Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma is head of the Research Centre at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of Universidad de Antioquia, leader of the Research Group on Environmental Remediation and Biocatalysis and Editor of the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). He has dedicated his scientific life to the understanding and development of water treatment systems through electrochemical, photochemical, and sonochemical processes, among others. He acts as an expert evaluator of the National Accreditation Council of the Ministry of National Education. He has been also a Guest Editor for Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Journal of Hazardous Materials and ECS Transactions. He has been part of the scientific committee of renowned international congresses such as European Conference on Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes, Asia Oceania Sonochemical Society Conference, Iberoamerican Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies, and European meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications. He has been awarded as the most outstanding Afro-Colombian of the last decade in the academy. Currently, he is also President of the Electrochemical Society in Colombia and Coordinator for Latin America of the International PhD School on advanced oxidation processes.
