With a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a degree from IQS Barcelona, Arana has been working in Denmark since 2020. He serves as a project manager at NIRAS, a consultancy firm with 3,000 employees focused on industrial water and pharmaceutical environmental solutions.
“"The goal is to find technologies to extract and destroy them; because it is not enough to separate them from the water if they can stay in the environment for thousands of years."
His research focuses on PFAS, synthetic chemicals used since the 1940s in products like non-stick pans and firefighting foams. Following new European Union regulations enacted in January, Arana is developing dual-function materials designed to both capture and destroy these 'forever chemicals'.
