Felipe Campuzano-Diosa, Ph.D.

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Biography

Felipe Campuzano is a Research Scientist at the Clean Energy Research Platform at KAUST. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s in Energy Systems, and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering. His main research interests include hydrogen production and utilization, and thermochemical processes such as combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis

Research Interests

My research bridges advanced thermochemical processes with sustainable process engineering to enable scalable, low-carbon technologies. I focus on alternative energy carriers (hydrogen, ammonia, biomass, end-of-life products, etc.) and waste-to-resource pathways (pyrolysis, gasification), emphasizing pilot-scale systems that translate lab innovation into industrial application. My long-term goal is to advance circular economy practices, sustainable materials engineering, and environmentally responsible manufacturing, accelerating the global transition toward net-zero energy systems.

Selected Publications

Felipe Campuzano, Andrés F Agudelo, Juan Daniel Martínez, William L Roberts.
On the exergoeconomics of the thermochemical recycling of end-of-life tires by pyrolysis. 
Energy, 330, 136930, 2025

Felipe Campuzano, Juan Daniel Martínez, Andrés F Agudelo, S Mani Sarathy, William L. Roberts.
Pursuing the end-of-life tire circularity: an outlook toward the production of secondary raw materials from tire pyrolysis oil
Energy and Fuels, 37, 8836-8866, 2023

Juan D. Martínez, Felipe Campuzano, Andrés F. Agudelo, Natalia Cardona-Uribe, Cindy N. Arenas.
Chemical recycling of end-of-life tires by intermediate pyrolysis using a twin-auger reactor: Validation in a laboratory environment.
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 159, 105298, 2021

Felipe Campuzano, Natalia Cardona-Uribe, Andrés F. Agudelo, S. Mani Sarathy, Juan Daniel Martínez.
Pyrolysis of waste tires in a twin-auger reactor using CaO: Assessing the physicochemical properties of the derived products
Energy and Fuels, 1c00890, 2021

Felipe Campuzano, Abdul G. Abdul Jameel, Weng Zhang, A.-H. Emwas, A andres F. Agudelo, Juan D. Martínez, Mani Sarathy
On the distillation of waste tire pyrolysis oil: A structural characterization of the derived fractions.
Fuel, 290, 120041, 2021

Felipe Campuzano, Abdul G. Abdul Jameel, Weng Zhang, A.-H. Emwas, A andres F. Agudelo, Juan D. Martínez, Mani Sarathy.
Fuel and chemical properties of waste tire pyrolysis oil derived from a continuous twin-auger reactor.
Energy and Fuels, 34, 12688−12702, 2020

Education

  • PhD, Materials Engineering, University of Antioquia, Colombia, 2021
  • MSc, Energy Systems, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Colombia, 2017
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Antioquia, Colombia, 2014

Professional Profile

  • 2021-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2019-2020: PhD Visiting Student, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2017-2021: PhD Student, University of Antioquia, Colombia
  • 2015-2017: Research Assistant, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Colombia

Awards

- Most impactful articles in 2023, Energy & Fuels.

- ACS Editor’s Choice (2023) – Paper highlighted for broad public impact.

- Top 3% most-cited paper in Energy & Fuels (2020).
- Summa Cum Laude doctoral distinction (2021).

- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Antioquia, Colombia 

KAUST Affiliations

  • Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC)

  • Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Renewable Energy Thermochemical Processes Chemical kinetics Lab to Pilot Scale End of life products to resources Catalytic Conversion of Ammonia into Hydrogen Chemical Kinetics