Miguel Herraiz graduated in Mechanical Engineering (2009-2013) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). In 2014, he obtained the Master in Mechanical Engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) and later, after almost 3 years in a private company (Valdemingómez Technology Park, Madrid), he obtained the Master in Industrial Engineering from UCLM in 2018. He then started his PhD studies in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering programme at the Electrochemical and Environmental Engineering Laboratory (E3L) of the TEQUIMA research group at UCLM, which he completed in 2021. His research focused on reducing the environmental and health impact of hospital urine using electrochemical technology. She also completed a pre-doctoral research stay at the University of Porto (Portugal), under the supervision of Dr Vítor Vilar (LSRE-LCM) ).
In 2023 he obtained a Juan de la Cierva grant to join the INPROQUIMA group, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) as a postdoctoral researcher. During this period, his research activity focused on the remediation of soils and groundwater contaminated with different organic pollutants through the application of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) with two main lines, the application of electrochemical processes and the application of chemical and photochemical oxidation processes with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or persulphate (PS) activated by iron).
During his academic career, he has participated in 1 educational innovation project, 3 R&D projects funded by private entities and 6 projects funded by public entities (2 regional and 4 national). In addition, the main results of his research have led to 17 publications in high-impact scientific journals. Finally, he has participated as co-author in 28 congresses (13 national and 15 international), defending scientific results through 18 oral communications, 1 invited talk and 9 posters).