MEng Chemical Engineering, 2006 Master in Experimental Chemical Engineering, 2007 PhD (with Honors) in Chemical Engineering, 2012 2016 – Present: Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science School, Aston University. 2014 – 2016: Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield. 2013 – 2014: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield. 2011 – 2013: Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona. 2007 – 2011: Research and teaching grant/contract for PhD research, Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona.

My research area has largely focused on heterogeneous porous materials to catalyse reactions producing gasoline and diesel fuels, and to incorporate bioethanol in refinery streams. I have expertise in reaction engineering, heterogeneous catalysis, kinetic modelling, porous material characterisation, and the design and start-up of experimental continuous and batch reactor devices. My research area is focused in development of catalysts for industry, from catalyst synthesis to close-to-operational testing in two important areas of chemical engineering: green chemistry and sustainability.

Osastiashtiami, A., Lee, A., Granollers, M., Brown, D., Olivi, L., Morales, G., Melero, J. and Wilson, K. (2015) ‘Hydrothermally Stable, Conformal, Sulfated Zirconia Monolayer Catalysts for Glucose Conversion to 5-HMF’ ACS Catalysis, 5 (7), pp. 4345-4352. Beerthuis, R., Granollers, M., Brown, D., Salavagione, H., Rothenberg, G. and Shiju, N. (2015) ‘Catalytic acetoxylation of lactic acid to 2-acetoxypropionic acid, en route to acrylic acid’ RSC Advances, 5 (6), pp. 4103-4108. ISSN 2046-2069 Morales, G., Osatiashtiani, A., Hernández, B., Iglesias, J., Melero, J., Paniagua, M., Brown, D., Granollers, M., Lee, A. and Wilson, K. (2014) ‘Conformal sulfated zirconia monolayer catalysts for the one-pot synthesis of ethyl levulinate from glucose’ Chemical Communications , 50 (79), pp. 11742-11745. ISSN 1359-7345 Granollers, M., Izquierdo, J., Fité, C. and Cunill, F. (2013) ‘Kinetic study of methyl-butenes dimerization and trimerization in liquid-phase over a macroreticular acid resin’ Chemical Engineering Journal, 234, pp. 266-275. ISSN 1385-8947 Granollers, M., Izquierdo, J. and Cunill, F. (2012) ‘Effect of macroreticular acidic ion-exchange resins on 2-methyl-1-butene and 2-methyl-2-butene mixture oligomerization’ Applied Catalysis A General, 435-43, pp. 163-171. ISSN 0926-860X Granollers, M., Izquierdo, J., Tejero, J., Iborra, M., Fité, C., Bringué, R. and Cunill, F. (2010) ‘Isoamylene Trimerization in Liquid-Phase over Ion Exchange Resins and Zeolites’ Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 49 (8), pp. 3561-3570. ISSN 0888-5885