Wilson Alavia Medina is a Chemical Engineer with a mention in Food, graduated with honors from the Universidad Técnica de Oruro (UTO) from Bolivia in 2010. He has a Master in Engineering Sciences with a mention in Mineral Process Engineering (2013) and a Ph.D. in Mineral Process Engineering with specialty in phase equilibrium and crystallization, graduated with distinction (2015) from the Universidad de Antofagasta (UA) from Chile and a Diploma in University Teaching (2018) from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) from Chile.
He has been a Research assistant at the Department of Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Germany (MPI Magdeburg) and at the Laboratorio de Investigación de Procesos and the Centro de Investigación Avanzada del Litio y Minerales Industriales from the UA. Also, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering from USACH and the Department of Chemistry from the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM) in Chile. He has been a part-time Researcher in the Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi) from the last university. Currently, he is the Founder and CEO of Disruptive Sustainable Technologies for Positive Change SpA, an Associate researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Center Program in Telecommunications Technologies (CIMTT) of USACH and an Associate Professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
This page was updated in August 2025.
