Dr. -Ing. Jairo D. Melo P.

• Product Development: Directed the end-to-end development and innovation pipeline for high-efficiency, floatable carbonaceous-polymer sorbents. • Material Optimization: Managed the development of high-performance granular filter media, optimizing porosity and mechanical stability for multi-media pollutant removal. • Scale-Up Management: Orchestrated the technical lifecycle, transitioning novel agglomeration methodologies from lab-scale prototypes to pilot-scale production.

- Evaluated and integrated experimentally different water treatment technologies including membrane systems, chemical precipitation, adsorption and fixed-bed bioreactors for the treatment of- and resource-recovery in- landfill leachate streams

- Research in developing cleaning methodologies either through mechanical and/or chemical means for scale removal formed in multiple-effect evaporators during the production of non-refined cane sugar locally known as “Panela”