Lucía Royo Pascual

Lucía Royo Pascual holds degrees in Industrial Engineering specializing in energy, fluids, and heat transfer from the University of Zaragoza, an MSc in renewable energy and energy resources from CIRCE, an MSc in Internal Combustion Engines from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, PhD in Transport Propulsion Systems at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, an MSc in Big Data and Business Analytics with IMF Business School, and an MSc in Mathematical Engineering and Computer Science (ongoing).

Lucía’s research work, conducted from 2013 to 2017 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in CMT – Motores Térmicos, has made a significant impact in the field. Her R&D projects, both at the national level (AUTORC) and Internationally, with private stakeholders of the automotive industry, focused on improving the energy efficiency in automotive vehicles. This was achieved by utilizing the Organic Rankine Cycle as an efficient method for Waste Heat Recovery. The culmination of these efforts resulted in the publication of 5 scientific articles in indexed international journals and several congresses. Furthermore, she serves as a reviewer for two high-impact journals: Applied Thermal Engineering and Energy.

Additionally, Lucía worked with the automotive company Applus IDIADA in the Thermal Management, HVAC, and engine cooling departments. She was involved in the H2020 project (DOMUS) related to mathematical optimization using GA and machine learning applied to thermal comfort in vehicles. Furthermore, she participated in the prototypes’ final validation and testing (data acquisition).

Afterward, she started at CIRCE as a researcher in the Combustible and Combustion Technology Group, focusing on flame visualization in gaseous combustibles and machine learning algorithms. Then, she became a Technology Project Manager, with her work focused on multiphysics simulation, data analysis, and machine learning in energy projects.

Currently, she works as an Innovation Manager at Electroingenium.