BIPV solutions in district renovations towards nearly zero-energy cities

Author's Biography

David Martin is a civil engineer from the University of Madrid and M.Sc in International Trade from ESIC Business & Marketing School. He has worked as a project engineer for several years and has been consistently involved with civil engineering and building sectors. He is based at the R&D department of Onyx Solar where he is responsible for the management of R&D activities and their dissemination activities scientific publications in journals of reference, articles and presentations in national and international events. Furthermore he takes part in technical and administrative management of R&D projects, collaborates in project proposals preparation for national and European progammes and is in charge of the management of other grants related to the internationalization of the company.

Elena Rico holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Salamanca. She worked as a researcher at the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the University of Salamanca. She is author/co-author of many scientific articles in journals of reference and she has contributed with several presentations to national and international congresses. After her Third Cycle Studies at the same university corresponding to the “Chemical Technologies and Reactivity” program, she moved to London. In 2013 she took part in the GESTIDI Programme promoted by Junta Castile-Leon combining theory and practical training for R&D Project Management. Nowadays, she has overall responsibility for ONYX R&D Department, being in charge of the management of all R&D Projects (H2020, FP7, LIFE, CDTI, MINECO and ADE) the preparation of new proposals and the coordination of all activities in the department. She represents ONYX as Secretary of Boards of Directors at CYLSOLAR CLUSTER.

Isabel Sánchez is a project manager at the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage Images and Sounds archive. As part of this role, she is responsible for the acquisition, digitisation and preservation of historical television coverage of the Olympic Games. She also leads several migration and preservation projects of film and video archives. She has previously worked for various production companies and cultural institutions, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, where she was responsible for audiovisual production and content creation..

Cristina Fernández holds a degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, a master’s degree in International Business Administration by CECO (Economical and Commercial Studies Center) and master’s degree in Occupational Risk Prevention from UNIR. She currently works at Onyx Solar Energy developing technical consulting in the design and installation of BIPV solutions and collaborating in R&D projects (7°FrameWork Project called R2CITIES Renovation of Residential urban Spaces: Towards nearly Zero Energy Cities & LIFE 2011 project called Model for a Green Energy Autonomous Office Building). She has wide international work experience as technical advisor for the Spanish Embassy in Vietnam and as an Architect in Poland and Spain.

Teodosio Del Caño holds a PhD in physics from the University of Valladolid, has been visiting scholar at the University of Windsor (Canada) and Post-Doctoral Fellow at ASIC (Advanced Science and Innovation Centre) in Osaka and he was awarded the Young Scientific Award in 2002 by The European Materials Research Society. Dr. Del Caño is author/co-author of more than 25 scientific articles in journals of reference, has contributed with more than 30 oral presentations and invited talks in international conferences and also he has coordinated more than 10 Regional, National and European R&D projects in materials science and application of semiconductors in optoelectronics. Dr. Del Caño collaborates as consultant with a number of investment funds of Reference, green companies and PV companies. He is considered an expert in BIPV, Green Building and Energy Efficient Retrofit. He is currently Chief Technical Officer of ONYX.