Carlos Almeida Peña
Carlos Almeida Peña is a scientist in Algal Biotechnology at the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change and the Spanish Bank of Algae (BEA). Ph.D. in Marine Sciences (1996), for 18 years he has done research in Biological Oceanography studiyng different aspects of the physiology of zooplankton (growth, respiration,…) by enzimatic methods and since 2006 he has been doing research at the BEA. Lecturer in the Marine Sciences Faculty at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, currently he is in charge of the Cytometry unit, he is co-coordinator of the biotechnology unit and he is Head of Service at the BEA. His main research interests are related to the biotechnology, physiology and cultivation of marine microalgae. He has got a wide experience in laboratory and pilot-scale cultivation of marine microalgae and cyanobacteria. Research objectives include physiological and biochemical characterization, transformation and applications of marine algal biomass, and the development of wastewaters and CO2 biofiltration systems by using algae.
Research interests
- Algal Biotechnology
- Algal Physiology
- Applied Phycology
- Algae and Climate Change
- Cytometry