Ignasi Palou-Rivera

Ignasi Palou-Rivera currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Refinity since February 2025, with a focus on technology leadership and process technology scale-up. Alongside this role, Ignasi has been an Adjunct Faculty member at the Illinois Institute of Technology since January 2022 and previously held the positions of Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer at the RAPID Manufacturing Institute from April 2019 to February 2025, emphasizing decarbonization and petrochemicals. Ignasi's earlier experience includes serving as Chief Technology Officer and Technology Platform Director at the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a Senior Process Engineer at LanzaTech, and a Principal Environmental Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. Ignasi holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.