Samantha Santiago CV

PERSONAL DATA:

Name: Samantha Kathiuska Samaniego Andrade
Position:PhD student
Work:Budapest University of Technology and Economics- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science –Surface Chemistry Group
Website:http://staffpages.uofk.edu/sheren-farah/
CitizenshipEcuadorian

LANGUAGE:

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (Advanced)

EDUCATION

2019/09 – PhD student – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, George A. Olah Doctoral School of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
2010/07 – 2013/06Master of Science thesis program, – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
2002/12-2007/11B.S. in Chemical Engineering РEscuela Superior Polit̩cnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

AWARDS/GRANTS:

  • 2016: “Fulbright Faculty Development” Scholarship
  • 2016: Best graduate honor diploma, ESPOL’s Chemical Engineering program
  • 2016: Financial support awarded by Centro Latinoamericano de Formación Interdisciplinaria, CELFI, to attend “Escuela de Simulación Computacional Avanzada en Química”. Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2015: First place among 52 graduates of Chemical Engineering program of ESPOL
  • 2014-2015: “Walter Valdano Raffo” scholarship, ESPOL
  • 2014: Best poster of session “A” of the XL Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expression, QUITEL, Galapagos, Ecuador
  • 2014: Financial support awarded by Universidad San Francisco de Quito to attend to the XL Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expression, QUITEL, Galapagos, Ecuador
  • 2014: Financial support awarded by CEDIA to attend Second School of Computational Chemistry in the Americas, PREFALC, Quito, Ecuador
  • 2014: First place in E-Project contest, “Centro de Emprendedores de ESPOL” (Entrepreneur Center of ESPOL)
  • 2010-2012: Best student award, Chemical Engineering undergraduate program; Benemérita Sociedad Filantrópica del Guaya
  • 2010-2013: Academic Excellence scholarship, ESPOL

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018/08 – 2018/12 Teaching Assistant – Rice University, Houston, TX
2010/10 Р2011/02Teaching Assistant РEscuela Superior Polit̩cnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2019/09 – Research Assistant/graduate student – Surface Chemistry Group, Prof. Krisztina László’s research group, BME.
Research field: Carbon based porous materials for electrocatalytic applications.
2017/09 – 2019/06Research Assistant/graduate student – Catalysis and Nanomaterials Laboratory, Dr. Michael Wong’s research group, Rice University.
Research field: Gas chromatography study of the adsorptive removal of organosulfur compounds from jet fuel using nano-porous materials and elevated temperatures.
2015/09 – 2017/07Specialized Technician – entro Ecuatoriano para la Investigación y Desarrollo de Nanotecnología, CIDNA, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Research field: Computational modeling of zeolites and catalysts. Use of computational technics such as Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) for studying catalysts applied to the oil hydrodesulfurization process.
2013/09 – 2015/08Research Assistant – Centro Ecuatoriano para la Investigación y Desarrollo de Nanotecnología, CIDNA, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Research field: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the use of saponins Dioscin and Escin as surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery.
2011/03 – 2012/04Research Assistant – Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Departamento de Ciencias Químicas y Ambientales
Project PIN 08 – 000015: Research for the formulation of flour from traditional Ecuadorian seeds and banana, and their use in bakery products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012/05 – 2014/02 Laboratory Analyst – YC-ECUADOR owned by BYCSA, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2008/07 – 2009/01Radio Presenter – Fuego Radio, Zaruma, Ecuador

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

Andrade, S.K.S.; Bakos, I.; Dobos, G.; Farkas, A.; Kiss, G.; Klébert, S.; Madarász, J.; László, K.
Biomass related highly porous metal free carbon for gas storage and electrocatalytic applications. Materials 2021, 14, 3488.

Priscilla Días da Silva, Samantha K. Samaniego Andrade, Kyriacos Zygourakis, and Michael S. Wong.
Adsorptive Desulfurization of Liquid Fuels at Elevated Temperatures Using Metal Exchanged Zeolite Y. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2019, 58 (42), 19623 – 19632.

Ricardo Paredes, Ana Isabel Fariñas-Sánchez, Bryan Medina-Rodríguez, Samantha Samaniego, Yosslen Aray, and Luis Javier Álvarez.
Dynamics of Surfactant Clustering at Interfaces and Its Influence on the Interfacial Tension: Atomistic Simulation of Sodium Hexadecane-Benzene Sulfonate-Tetradecane-Water System. Langmuir 2018, 34 (9), 3146-3157.

Yosslen Aray, José Gregorio Parra, Doris Marianela Jiménez, Mauricio Cornejo, Eduardo V. Ludeña, Ricardo Paredes, Alejandro Martiz, Samantha Samaniego, Cecilia Paredes.
Exploring the Effect of the O-(1-heptylnonyl) Benzene Sulfonate Surfactant on the Nature of the Linear Hydrocarbons/Water Interface by Means of an Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation. J. Comput. Methods Sci. Eng., 2017, 17 (1), 39-53.

Samantha Samaniego, Yosslen Aray, Ricardo Paredes.
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Decane/Saponin/Water Interface. Ciencia, Desarrollo e Innovación, 2016, 2 (2), 5-10. ISSN: 2500-5499

Alejandro Martiz, Samantha Samaniego, Yosslen Aray, Ricardo Paredes.
Synergism between ionic and nonionic surfactants for producing low interfacial tension at oil-water interface. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 2015.