Biography

Dr Jose Osorio-Tejada is an Assistant Professor (research focused) at the School of Engineering. He joined the School in 2021 as a research fellow to study the life cycle impacts of fertilisers and other chemicals produced in plasma reactors supplied by renewable energy. This research is part of the ERC Synergy Grant-funded SCOPE projectLink opens in a new window, supported by the European Commission.

He also recently secured a Horizon Europe grant for the OPeraTIC projectLink opens in a new window, which investigates laser-based technologies for green manufacturing. He leads the sustainability assessment, developing a life-cycle-based framework to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of manufacturing processes using ultra-short-pulsed lasers. This work spans four testbed use cases in the sectors of Home Appliances, Aeronautics, Automotive, and Lighting.

Dr Osorio-Tejada earned his BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia) in 2009. After gaining four years of experience in the automotive industry, he was awarded the Fundación Carolina scholarship in 2012 to pursue an MSc in Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). He completed his PhD at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) in 2018, focusing on the environmental, social, and socioeconomic life cycle assessment of road freight transport and alternative fuels. Afterward, he worked for two years as a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira before joining the University of Warwick.

Research Interests

• Environmental and social life cycle assessment (LCA)
• Circular economy
• Techno-economic analysis (TEA)
• Green fertilisers
• Sustainable freight transport
• Alternative fuels, renewable energy, and green hydrogen
• Electrochemical and plasma-assisted chemicals production

Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

• Osorio-Tejada J, Escribà-Gelonch M, Vertongen R, Bogaerts S, Hessel V. (2024) CO₂ conversion to CO via plasma and electrolysis: a techno-economic and energy cost analysis. Energy & Environmental Science.
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera-Sastresa, E, Scarpellini, S. (2024) Environmental assessment of road freight transport services beyond the tank-to-wheels analysis based on LCA. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-31
• Osorio-Tejada J, Ferlin F, Vaccaro L, Hessel V. (2023) The sustainability impact of Nobel Prize Chemistry: life cycle assessment of C-C cross-coupling reactions. Green Chemistry, 9760 - 9778
• Osorio-Tejada J, Rebrov E, Hessel V. (2023) Internalisation of environmental costs of decentralised nitrogen fertilisers production. Int J Life Cycle Assessment.
• Villota-Paz J, Osorio-Tejada J, Morales-Pinzón, T. (2023) Comparative life cycle assessment for the manufacture of bio-detergents. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30 (12), 34243-34254
• Osorio-Tejada J, van't Veer K, Long N, Tran N, Fulcheri L, Pati, B, Bogaerts A, Hessel V. (2022) Sustainability analysis of methane-to-hydrogen-to-ammonia conversion by integration of high-temperature plasma and non-thermal plasma processes. Energy Conversion and Management, 269, 116095
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera E, Scarpellini S, Morales-Pinzon T. (2022) Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of Transport Services: Case Studies in Colombia, Spain, and Malaysia. Sustainability, 14 (16), 10060
• Osorio-Tejada J, Varon-Hoyos M, Morales-Pinzon T. (2022) Comprehensive Water Footprint of a University Campus in Colombia: Impact of Wastewater Treatment Modeling. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 233 (5), 1-25.
• Osorio-Tejada J, Tran N, Hessel V. (2022) Techno-environmental assessment of small-scale Haber-Bosch and plasma-assisted ammonia supply chains. Science of The Total Environment, 826, 154162.
• Osorio-Tejada J, Ferlin F, Vaccaro L, Hessel V. (2022) Life cycle assessment of multistep benzoxazole synthesis: from batch to waste-minimised continuous flow systems. Green Chem.,24, 325-337.
• Tran N, Osorio-Tejada J, Asrami M, Srivastava A, Laad A, Mihailescu M, Costa A, Rebrov E, Tuong-Lai V, Phan P, Butler G, Hessel V. (2021) Economic Optimization of Local Australian Ammonia Production Using Plasma Technologies with Green/Turquoise Hydrogen. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 9, 48, 16304–16315.
• Varon-Hoyos M, Osorio-Tejada J, Morales-Pinzon T. (2021) Carbon footprint of a university campus from Colombia. Carbon Management, 12:1, 93-107.
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera E, Scarpellini S, Hariza A. (2020) An integrated social life cycle assessment of freight transport systems. The Int. Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 25, pp. 1088–1105
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera E, Hariza A. (2018) Well-to-Wheels approach for the environmental impact assessment of road freight services. Sustainability, 10(12)
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera E, Scarpellini S. (2017) Liquefied natural gas: could it be a reliable option for road freight transport in the EU? Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 71, pp. 785-795
• Osorio-Tejada J, Llera E, Scarpellini S. (2017) A multi-criteria sustainability assessment for biodiesel and liquefied natural gas as alternative fuels in transport systems. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 42, pp. 169–186

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