SOFIA BLANCO is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at Universidad de Zaragoza. Her research focuses on the experimental and theoretical thermodynamic study of fluids relevant to industry and the environment. She has contributed to over 28 competitive research projects and 7 industry-funded contracts, with the aim of improving industrial process efficiency, mitigating climate change, and reducing air pollution. She has co-authored more than 70 publications and conference contributions. Since 2010, her work has centered on CO₂-rich systems within the scope of CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) technology. Based on experimental results from volumetric and acoustic measurements, her research evaluates the influence of anthropogenic CO₂ quality on its transport, injection, and storage, supporting the feasibility of co-capturing CO₂ with impurities and thus avoiding the need for stream purification. She is currently co-Principal Investigator of the CAPTICES Project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency.
Main research interests: Thermodynamic properties, Carbon capture and storage, CO2 plus impurities co-capture, Equations of state.
