Hugo Hernandez
Hugo Hernandez is an independent researcher and consultant at ForsChem Research (Medellín, Colombia) since 2015. He studied chemical engineering and graduated with honours at Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia) in 2000. He received a Master degree in chemical engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia) in 2004. Then in 2008, he obtained the degree of Doctor rerum naturalium in the field of Colloid Chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Klaus Tauer, being awarded with the Summa cum laude distinction at Universität Potsdam (Germany) in 2008. He stayed between 2006 and 2010 at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Golm, Germany) doing research at Dr. Tauer’s Heterophase Polymerization Research Group. He also has 15 years of industrial experience working at Andercol S.A. (Medellín, Colombia), a polymers and chemicals company, where he held different positions including process engineer, project leader, research & development scientist, and research & development manager.