Sergio Bordel Velasco, PhD Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Phone: +46(0)31 772 3854 Fax: +46(0)31 772 3801 E-mail: velasco [at] chalmers.se Office: Room 3056A     Education and degrees 2003 M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Double degree, University of Valladolid (Spain) and ENSCP (Paris, France) 2006 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Valladolid Employments 2003-2007 PhD student, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Spain 2007-2008 Visiting researcher, UAM, Mexico DF, Department of Biotechnology 2008-2010 Post Doc, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers 2010- Assistant professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers Publications, Patents & Presentations Publications 2006 Bordel S, Mato R, Villaverde S. Modeling of the evolution with length of bubble size distributions in bubble columns. Chem. Eng. Sci., 61, 3663-3673.   Bordel Velasco S, Turmine M, Di Caprio D. Letellier, P. Micelle formation in ethyl-ammonium nitrate (an ionic liquid). Colloid. Surface. A, 275, 50-54. 2007 Bordel S, Muñoz R, Diaz LF, Villaverde S. Predicting the accumulation of harmful metabolic by-products during the treatment of VOC emissions in suspended growth bioreactors. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41, 5875-5881.   Bordel S, Muñoz R, Diaz, LF, Villaverde, S. A multi-step model for substrate assimilation and bacterial growth, application to benzene biodegradation by Pseudomonas putida F1. Biotechnol. Bioeng.. 97, 1098-1107.   Muñoz R, Díaz LF, Bordel S, Villaverde S. Inhibitory effects of catechol accumulation on benzene biodegradation in Pseudomonas putida F1 cultures. Chemosphere. 68, 244-252.   Bordel S, Díaz LF, Muñoz R, Villaverde S. New insights on toluene biodegradation by Pseudomonas putida F1: Influence of pollutant concentration and excreted metabolites. Appl. Microbiol. Biot. 74, 857-866. 2008 Muñoz R, Díaz LF, Bordel S, Villaverde S. Response of Pseudomonas putida F1 cultures to fluctuating toluene loads and operational failures in suspended growth bioreactors. Biodegradation. 19, 897-908.   Arranz A, Bordel S, Villaverde S, Zamarreño JM, Guieysse B, Muñoz R, Modeling Photosynthetically Oxygenated Biodegradation Processes using Artificial Neural Networks. J. Haz. Mat. 155, 51-57.   Muñoz R, Chambaud M, Bordel S, Villaverde S. A systematic selection of the non-aqueous phase in a bacterial two liquid phase bioreactor treating α-pinene. Appl. Microbiol. Biot. 79, 33-41.   Díaz LF, Muñoz R, Bordel S, Villaverde S. Toluene biodegradation by Pseudomonas putida F1: Targeting culture stability in long-term operation. Biodegradation. 19, 197-208.   Bordel S, Muñoz R, Diaz LF, Villaverde S. Mechanistic model for evaluating the performance of suspended growth bioreactors for the off-gas treatment of VOCs. Biochem. Eng. J. 38, 395-405. 2009 Bordel S, Muñoz R, Guieysse B. Mechanistic model for the reclamation of waste waters using algal-bacterial photobioreactors. 2009, Env. Sci. Technol. 43, 3200-3207.   Rocha-Rios J, Bordel S, Hernandez S, Revah S. Methane degradation in two-phase partition bioreactors. 2009, Chem. Eng. J. 152, 289-292 2010 Bordel S, Nielsen J. Identification of flux control in metabolic networks using non-equilibrium thermodynamics. 2010. Metab. Eng. 13, 369-377   Liu LM, Agren R, Bordel S, Nielsen J. Use of genome-scale metabolic models for understanding microbial physiology. 2010, FEBS Lett. 584, 2556-2564.   Bordel S, Agren R, Nielsen J. Sampling the Solution Space in Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks Reveals Transcriptional Regulation in Key Enzymes. 2010. PLoS Comput. Biol. 6: e1000859.   Bordel S. Steepest entropy increase is justified by information theory. The relations between Ziegler's principle, Onsager's formalism and Prigogine's principle. 2010. Physica A. 389:4564-4570.   Bordel S, Hernádez M, Villaverde S, Muñoz R. Modelling gas–liquid VOCs transport in two-liquid phase partitioning bioreactors. 2010, J. Heat Mass Transfer 53:1139-1145 2011 Cvijovic M, Bordel S, Nielsen J. Mathematical models of cell factories, moving towards the core of industrial biotechnology. Microbial Biotechnology. 4:572-584   Hernandez M, Quijano G, Muñoz R, Bordel S. Modeling of VOC mass transfer in two-liquid phase stirred tank, biotrickling filter and airlift reactors. 2011. Chemical Engineering Journal. 172: 961-969.   Bordel S. Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: partition functions and steepest entropy increase. Journal of Statistichal mechanics. 5: P05013   Olivares R, Bordel S, Nielsen J. Codon usage variability determines the correlation between proteome and transcriptome fold changes. 2011. BMC Systems Biology. 5:33.   Bordel S. A metabolic network of a phosphate accumulating organism provides new insights into enhanced biological phosphorous removal. 2011. Water Science & Technology. 64:2410-2416 Book Chapters 2007 Bordel S, Colloids and Surfaces Research Trends, Nova Publishers, New York, Chapter 6. Talks 2009 Bioinformatics workshop in Umeå. Thermodynamics for the identification of bottlenecks in metabolic networks. Teaching and Tutoring Experience I followed the CAP (Course for pedagogical adaptation) in Spain, which included teaching at a local high school (2004) Involved in the organization and teaching of the following courses: 2009 “Data Acquisition and Handling in Systems Biology” at Chalmers University 2010 “International FEBS course in Systems Biology of metabolism” at Chalmers University   “Technical biology” at Chalmers University Current Co-supervisor of five PhD students at Chalmers (Rasmus Ågren, Roberto Olivares, Christoph Knuf, Saeed Sheykhshoaie and Amir Feizi). Personal text After having working during my PhD on kinetic modeling of biological degradation of xenobiotic compounds I have moved my area of interest to genome-scale models and the application of thermodynamic principles to elucidate their properties. It is a very promising area and I am enjoying a lot working in this field.