Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López leads the Sustainable Systems Engineering Laboratory at UB CBE. Her research group aims to develop computational tools that provide insights into the design of sustainable products and technologies. The methodological work of the laboratory focuses on four broad topics: (1) multi-scale process design, (2) technology pathway analysis, (3) sustainable supply chains, and (4) environmental and social justice. The Sustainable Systems Engineering Laboratory is interested in applying these methodologies to address problems in plastics recycling, waste management, clean energy technologies, food, pharmaceuticals, and textiles manufacturing.  

Before joining UB CBE, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her postdoctoral training, she worked under the supervision of Prof. Victor M. Zavala, developing holistic computational frameworks to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of plastics recycling as part of the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP) Center funded by the Department of Energy.

Dr. Munguía-López received her BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Technological Institute of Celaya and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michoacan in Mexico. During the second year of her PhD, she was a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• PhD, Chemical Engineering (Process Systems Engineering), University of Michoacan, Michoacan, Mexico, 2021
• MSc, Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2017
• BSc, Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2014