García-Kerdan, Iván

Dr. Iván García Kerdan is an Associate Professor and Head of teh School of Engineering and Sciences (Santa Fe Campus). Additionally, he is a visiting researcher from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/i.garcia-kerdan). Dr. García Kerdan holds a degree in Mechatronic Engineering and a Master's in Energy Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He also obtained a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from the Energy Institute at University College London (UCL). Dr. García Kerdan spent three years as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, funded by the Newton Fund scholarship, where he developed new frameworks for simulating and optimizing energy systems. Part of his research focused on the techno-economic aspects of energy systems in various sectors and their potential impact on achieving national and global decarbonization goals. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the UNAM Engineering Institute, working on methods involving machine learning and neural networks for energy system design. Before his current position, Dr. García Kerdan was an Associate Professor and leader of the sustainable building design and engineering program at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom.