Tel: +34 977 558 458
E-mail: fgiralt@urv.cat

Résumé 

• Distinguished and Emeritus Professor (URV)
  
  
• Distinguished Researcher of the Generalitat de Catalunya
  
  
• Member of the BioCenit Research Lab (URV)
  
  
• Member of the Consolidated Reserach Team of Transport Phenomena (FeT; URV)
  
  
• Member of the Innovation Center Centre ATIC, Network TECNIO of CIDEM (Generalitat de Catalunya)
  
  
• Member of the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN; UCLA)
  
  
• Member of AIChE, ASME, APS and ASEE
  

Education

• Enginyer Químic Diplomat (BEng/MEng), Institut Químic de Sarrià (1970)


• Llicenciat en Ciències Químiques (BChem/MChem), Universitat de Barcelona (1976)


• Master of Applied Science(MASc), Universitat de Toronto (1973)


• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Universitat de Toronto (1976)


• Doctor en Ciències Químiques (ScD), Universitat de Barcelona (1977)


• Diplomat en Direcció i Gestió d'Empreses (MBA), ICT - Barcelona (1991)

• Experimental and computational environmental engineering & chemistry


• Nanoinformatics


• QSARs/QNARs and QSPRs/QNPRs


• Environmental/Ecological risk assessment


• Pattern recognition and classification in complex systems


• Phisics of fluids and turbulent flows

• Mountaineering & MTB


• Photography


• Yoga Iyengar, Yoga in the Iyengar Tradition

•  Cohen Y; Christofides PD; Giralt-Prat F.
  Advanced Monitoring, Optimization and Control of Membrane Desalination Processes
  UC CASE NO. 2009-079. USA.


•  Roberto Coll Frances , Francesc Giralt , José Luis Peña Díez
  Bases lubricantes sintéticas por oligomerización de alfaolefinas con catalizadores metalocenos
  Spain Patent P200700763 • Issued March 22, 2007.

•  Fernández A; Lombardo A; Rallo R; Roncaglioni A; Giralt F; Benfenati E (2012)
  Quantitative consensus of bioaccumulation models for integrated testing strategies
  Environment International. 45: 51-58.


•  Gavalda X; Ferrer-Gener J; Kopp GA; Giralt F (2011)
  Interpolation of Pressure Coefficients for Low-Rise Buildings of Different Plan Dimensions and Roof Slopes using Artificial Neural Networks
  Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics. 99: 658-664.


•  Rallo R; France B; Liu R; Nair S; Bradley K; Damoiseaux R; George S; Nel AE; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2011)
  Analysis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Toxicity-related Cell Signaling Pathways via Self-Organizing Maps
  Environmental Science & Technology. 45: 1695–1702.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simó C; Giralt F (2011)
  From steady solutions to chaotic flows in a Rayleigh–Bénard problem at moderate Rayleigh numbers
  Physica D. 240: 920-934.


•  Martínez I; Grifoll J; Giralt F; Rallo R (2010)
  Multimedia environmental chemical partitioning from molecular information
  Science of the Total Environment. 409: 412–422.


•  Nendza M; Aldenberg T; Benfenati E; Benigni R; Cronin M; Escher S; Fernandez A; Gabbert S; Giralt F; et al. (2010)
  Data quality assessment for in silico methods: A survey of approaches and needs
  In: Cronin M, Madden J (eds): In Silico Toxicology. Principles and Applications, RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2010. [ISBN: 978-1849730044].


•  Sorensen P.B; Giralt F; Rallo R; Espinosa G; Münier B; Gyldenkaerne S; Thomsen M (2010)
  Conscious worst case definition for risk assessment, part II: A methodological case study for pesticide risk assessment
  Science of the Total Environment. 408: 3860-3870.


•  Mandava VSR; Kopp GA; Herrero J; Giralt F (2010)
  Experimental Investigation of the Wake of a Discontinuous Cylinder
  ASME 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ASME Press, Paper No. 30498.


•  Simo C; Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Giralt F (2010)
  Dynamics of particle trajectories in a Rayleigh-Bénard problem
  Communications in Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation. 15: 24-39.


•  Herrero J; Giralt F; Puigjaner D; Simo C (2009)
  Mixing by thermal convection in a biochemical reactor
  In: Botchorishvili R; Davitashvili T; Sirbiladze G; Sikharulidze A. (eds): Finite Differences, Finite Elements, Finite Volumes, Boundary Elements, WSEAS Press, Athens, Greece, pp. 45-50. [SBN: 978-960-474-089-5; INSPEC: 10798736].


•  Fernandez A, Rallo R; Giralt F (2009)
  Uncertainty Reduction in Environmental Data with Conflicting Information Membrane Module
  Environmental Science & Technology. 43(13): 5001-5006.


•  Lyster E; Au J; Rallo R; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2009)
  Coupled 3-D Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer Analysis of Mineral Scaling-Induced Flux Decline in a Laboratory Plate-and-Frame. Reverse Osmosis Membrane Module
  Journal of Membrane Science. 339: 39-48.


•  Gavalda X; Ferrer-Gener J; Kopp GA; Giralt F; Galsworthy J (2009)
  Simulating Pressure Coefficients on a Circular Cylinder at Re = 1,000,000 by Cognitive Classifiers
  Computers and Structures. 87: 838-846.


•  Libotean D; Giralt J; Giralt F. Rallo R; Wolfe T; Cohen Y (2009)
  Neural Network Approach for Modeling the Performance of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Desalting
  Journal of Membrane Science. 326: 408-419.


•  Al-Shannag M; Al-Qodah Z; Herrero J; Humphrey JAC; Giralt F (2008)
  Using a wall-driven flow to reduce the external mass-transfer resistance of a bio-reaction system
  Biochemical Engineering Journal. 39: 554–565.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simo C; Giralt F (2008)
  Bifurcation analysis of steady Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cubical cavity with conducting sidewalls
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 598: 393-427.


•  Libotean D; Giralt J; Rallo R; Cohen Y; Giralt F; Ridgway H.F; Rodriguez G; Phipps D (2008)
  Organic Compounds Passage through RO Membranes
  Journal of Membrane Science. 313: 23-43.


•  Valencia C; Espinosa G, Giralt J; Giralt F (2007)
  Optimization of invertase production in a fed-batch bioreactor using simulation based dynamic programming coupled with a neural classifier
  Computers & Chemical Engineering. 31: 1131-1140.


•  Guimera R; Danon L; Diaz-Guilera A; Giralt F; Arenas A (2006)
  The real communication network behind the formal chart: Community structure in organizations
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 61: 653-657.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Giralt F; Simo C (2006)
  Bifurcation analysis of multiple steady flow patterns for Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cubical cavity at Pr = 130
  Physical Review E. 73(4): 046304/1-16.


•  Witt JH; Alabart JR; Giralt F; Herrero J; Vernis Ll; Medir M (2006)
  A Competency-Based Educational Model in a Chemical Engineering School
  International Journal of Engineering Education. 22(2): 218-235.


•  Alabart JR; Herrero J; Brull E; Giralt F; Mackie AD (2005)
  Work in Progress - Evaluation of the Educational Model and its Deployment by Senior Students
  Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis. F3E, 5-6 (ISBN 0-7803-9077-6).


•  Alabart JR; Godlewska A; Herrero J; Giralt F; Medir M (2005)
  Work in Progress - Assessment of the Development of Personal and Social Competencies by Students
  Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis. F3E, 3-4 (ISBN 0-7803-9077-6).


•  Rallo R; Espinosa G; Giralt F (2005)
  Prediction of Modes of Toxic Action and toxicity of phenols with feature selection algorithms coupled with fuzzy ARTMAP
  Proceedings of the Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, Eds. P. Ettmayer and G. Ecker, Medimont SRL, F620C0176, 27-33 (ISBN 88-7587-163-9).


•  Rallo R; Espinosa G; Giralt F (2005)
  Using an ensemble of neural based QSARs for the prediction of toxicological properties of chemical contaminants
  Trans IChemE Part B. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 83(B4): 387-392.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simo C; Giralt F (2004)
  Stability analysis of the flow in a cubical cavity heated from below
  Physics of Fluids. 16(10): 3639-3655.


•  Espinosa G; Arenas A; Giralt F; Amat L; Girones X; Carbo-Dorca R (2004)
  Fuzzy ARTMAP based QSAR for TD50 of Aromatic Compounds, Proceedings of the V Girona Seminar on Molecular Similarity, Sen, K; Ed.; Nova Science Publishers, Inc; New York, 2004.


•  Giralt F; Espinosa G; Arenas A; Amat L; Girones X; Carbo-Dorca R; Cohen Y (2004)
  Prediction of activity coefficients of diverse aromatic compounds in water at infinite dilution with an integrated SOM-fuzzy ARTMAP neural system
  AIChE Journal. 50(6): 1315-1343.


•  Kopp GA; Ferre-Gine J; Giralt F (2003)
  Simulating pressure and velocity time series with artificial neural networks: Some advantages & pitfalls
  Mecánica Computacional , M. B. Rosales, V. H. Cortínez y D. V. Bambill (Editores), Vol. XXII, 2560- 2574 (2003) (ISSN-1666-6070 ).


•  Guimera R; Arenas A; Díaz-Guilera A; Giralt F (2003)
  Dynamical properties of model communication networks
  Physical Review E. 68: 065103 (R).


•  Spasov Y; Herrero J; Grau F.X; Giralt F (2003)
  Linear stability analysis and numerical calculations of the lid-driven flow in a toroidally shaped cavity
  Physics of Fluids. 15(1): 134-146.


•  Yaffe D; Cohen Y; Espinosa G; Arenas A; Giralt F (2003)
  A fuzzy ARTMAP based Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) for the Henry's Law Constant of Organic Compounds
  Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 43: 85-112.


•  Humphrey JAC; Cushner J; Al-Shannag M; Herrero J; Giralt F (2003)
  Note on the shear-driven flow in a toroid of square cross-section
  Journal of Fluids Engineering. 125: 130-137.


•  Herrera B; Grau FX; Giralt F (2003)
  Orthogonal grids around convex bodies using foliations
  Internationa Journal of Numeriacal Methods in Engineering 56(5): 637-649.

•  Srivastava C; Fernandez A; Cester J; Rallo R; Giralt F. (2011)
  A hybrid GA-MLR algorithm for automated descriptor selection in QSAR modeling
  12th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, November.


•  Pascual X; Gu H; Bartman A; Zhu A; Rahardianto A; Giralt J; Rallo R; Ferrer-Giné J; Giralt F; Cohen Y. (2011)
  Dynamic Data-Driven Models of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Systems
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (MN), October.


•  Nendza M; Kühne R; Lombardo A; Roncaglioni A; Strempel S; Rallo R; Fernandez A; Giralt F; Aldenberg T; Gabbert S. (2011)
  Screening for Low Aquatic Bioaccumulation: Applicability Domain of the BCF Waiving Scheme
  ICCE 2011, ETH Zurich, Zurich, September.


•  Rallo R; Fernandez A; Giralt F. (2011)
  A cost-based classifier for bioaccumulation assay waiving
  SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milan, May.


•  Nendza M; Sheringer M; Strempel S; Lombardo A; Roncaglioni A; Benfenati E; Franco A; Trapp S; McLachlan M; Kühne R; Rallo R; Giralt F; Dimitrov S; Bleeker E; Vermeire T. (2011)
  Integrated testing strategies (ITS) for bioaccumulation; hierarchical scheme of chemistry-driven modules and definition of applicability domains
  SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milan, May.


•  Sidorova J, Fernandez A, Cester J, Rallo R, Giralt F. (2011)
  Predicting biodegradable quality of chemicals with the TGI+.3 classifier
  11th IASTED Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA). Viena, February.


•  Rallo R; Liu R; Nair S; George S; Nel AE; Giralt F; Cohen Y. (2010)
  Data Mining of High Throughput Screening Toxicity of Engineered Nanoparticles
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (UT), November.


•  Pascual X; Gu H; Bartman A; Zhu A; Rahardianto A; Giralt J; Rallo R; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2010)
  Rapid Prototyping of Reverse Osmosis Processes Using Data-Driven Models
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City (UT), November.


•  Mandava VSR; Kopp GA; Herrero J; Giralt F (2010)
  Experimental Investigation of the Wake of a Discontinuous Cylinder
  Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations DSPDEs'10, Barcelona, June.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simo C; Giralt F (2010)
  Lagrangian transport and chaos in the natural convection problem inside a cube
  The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden, May.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simo C; Giralt F (2010)
  Existence of chaotic dynamics in Rayleigh-Bénard at moderate Rayleigh numbers
  The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Dresden, May.


•  Lyster E; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2009)
  Advanced CFD Modeling of Mineral Scaling of RO Membranes
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Nashville (TN), November.


•  Rallo R; Giralt J; Giralt F; Cohen Y; Rodriguez G; Phipps D (2009)
  From Molecular Structure to Organics Passage in RO/NF Processes
  8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.


•  Puigjaner D; Simó C; Herrero J, Giralt F (2009)
  Mixing in Flows Induced by Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
  8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.


•  Lyster E; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2009)
  Concentration Polarization and Scale Formation in a Laboratory RO Cell
  8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.


•  Herrero J; Puigjaner D; Giralt F; Simo C (2009)
  Mixing by Thermal Convection in a Biochemical Reactor
  International Conference on Finite Differences - Finite Elements - Finite Volumes - Boundary Elements, Tbilisi, Georgi, June.


•  Mandava VSR; Kopp GA; HerreroJ; Giralt F (2009)
  Experimental Investigation of the Wake behind a Discontinuous Cylinder
  The Sixth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Seoul, Korea, June.


•  Lyster E; Rallo R; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2008)
  Numerical Modeling of Scale Formation in RO Membrane Desalination. Membranes for Water Treatment
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.


•  Espinosa G; Rallo R; Giralt F (2008)
  Self-Organizing Classification of Ecotoxicological and Molecular Information as a Proxy for Identifying Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic Substances
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.


•  Giralt F; Rallo R; Giralt J; Libotean D; Cohen Y (2008)
  Data Driven Neural Network Based Models of RO Desalination Plant Operation and RO Membrane Performance. Data Analysis: Design, Algorithms & Applications
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simó C; Giralt F (2008)
  Characterization of the mixing properties of natural convection flows in a cubical cavity heated from below
  AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.


•  Giralt F, Rallo R; Libotean D; Giralt J; Cohen Y (2008)
  Artificial Neural Networks Analysis of RO Process Performance: RO Plant Performance and Organic Compound Passage
  ICOM 2008 International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, Honolulu, Hawaii, July.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Simó C; Giralt F (2008)
  Estudio de la dinámica de los flujos de partículas en un problema de convección natural en el interior de un cubo
  NoLineal 2008, Barcelona, June 2008.


•  Strebel K; Espinosa G; Rallo R; Giralt F; Richter M; Schlink U; Herbarth O; Kindler A (2008)
  Spatial and seasonal prediction of outdoor volatile organic compound (VOC) - Identifying optimal model and data set
  SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.


•  Espinosa G; Strebel K; Rallo R; Giralt F; Herbarth O; Richter M; Kindler A; Schlink U (2008)
  Outdoor exposure modeling with CAR and self organizing maps
  SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.


•  Martínez I; Espinosa G; Rallo R, Grifoll J; Cohen Y; Giralt F (2008)
  Clustering the chemical space to estimate environmental multimedia partitioning of pollutants with Kernel methods and molecular descriptors
  SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.


•  Lyster E; Uchymiak M; Giralt F; Cohen Y (2008)
  Comprehensive numerical modeling of concentration polarization and RO module performance for brackish water desalination
  American Water Works Association’s, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Los Angeles, April.


•  Giralt F, Rallo R; Libotean D; Giralt J; Cohen Y (2008)
  Artificial Neural Networks analysis of RO process performance: organic compound passage and RO plant performance
  American Water Works Association’s, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Los Angeles, April.


•  Puigjaner D; Herrero J; Giralt F; Simó C (2007)
  Bifurcations and flow transitions of steady natural convective flow patterns in a cubical cavity with perfectly conducting lateral walls
  Chaos, Complexity and Transport: Theory and Applications (CCT'07), Marseille (France), June.


•  Espinosa G; Rallo R; Vogel T; Cohen Y; Giralt, F (2007)
  Structure biodegradation relationships for organic pollutants in water and soil
  SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.


•  Rallo R; Mujica M; Climent J; Espinosa G; Giralt F (2007)
  Self-Organizing Maps and Gaussian Mixture Models for Environmental Risk Assessment and Mapping
  SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.


•  Martínez I; Espinosa G; Rallo R, Grifoll J; Cohen Y; Giralt F (2007)
  Estimation of Environmental Multimedia Partitioning of Pollutants from Molecular Descriptors using Artificial Neural Networks
  SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.


•  Espinosa G; Rallo R; Giralt F; Thomsen M (2007)
  Self-organizing classification of Ecotoxicological and Molecular Information as a Proxy for Human Toxicity
  SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.


•  Libotean D; Giralt J; Cohen Y; Giralt F (2007)
  RO Membrane Plant Performance Modeling with Neural Networks
  NAMS 2007, Orlando, Florida, May.


•  Libotean D; Giralt J; Rallo R; Cohen Y; Giralt F (2007)
  Neural Network QSAR Analysis of Organic Compounds Rejection and Fouling in RO Membranes
  NAMS 2007, Orlando, Florida, May.


•  Barrera CM; Salvatierra D; Giralt F (2007)
  Integrated Management Process (IMP) for the treatment and recycling of phytosanitary products containers: Application of Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology
  1st International Congress on Green Process Engineering, Toulouse (France), April.


•  Cohen Y; Christofides P; Giralt F; Giralt J; Libotean D; McFall C; Uchymiak M; Rahardianto A; Lyster E (2007)
  High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis Desalination - Process Integration and Control
  International Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II, Tomar (Portugal), February.