Brais Vazquez Iglesias

Brais Vazquez Iglesias

• R&D Manager Pollution SRL

As the R&D Manager at Pollution Analytical Equipment, Brais Vázquez Iglesias has been responsible since 2016 for planning and implementing new R&D projects and also for overseeing the entire development process of new products, from the idea to implementation and production. He is also responsible for writing high impact proposals to fund new projects in national and international programs.

After a short period working as a technical sales manager for an Italian company which designs and manufactures agricultural machinery, he started to collaborate with the firm in 2013 being the coordinator of a European project aimed at developing new nanostructured materials for biomedical applications.

In 2009, right after graduating, he started working as a researcher at the University of Bologna focusing on different international cutting-edge projects based on thermal plasma processes, waste treatment and nanotechnology.

He earned a master’s degree in Mining and Energy Resources Engineering from the University of Vigo (Spain) and completed a postgraduate course in Technologies and Processes of the Automotive Industry.