Julie Katerine Rodríguez

Dr. Julie Katerine Rodríguez joined Steeper in 2015, and is currently managing the Advanced Biofuels Centre in Calgary while also assisting in all aspects of Hydrofaction® technology development. She is specialized in novel integrated upgrading pathways for renewable oils to “drop-in” transportation fuels and integration into refinery processes. Further, Dr. Rodríguez possesses deep specialist know-how in catalysis, refinery processes, and properties and analytical techniques for renewable and conventional oils.

Dr. Rodríguez has been Steeper’s lead engineer on two third-party engineering projects related to upgrading technologies and has been managing a number of industrial and academic collaborations. Dr. Rodríguez is listed as an inventor on eight patents and has published six peer-reviewed papers in international journals.