Alejandro Goldar Davila

Alejandro received a Chemical Engineering degree and an M.Sc. in Systems Engineering from Simón Bolívar University (Caracas, VE) in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He then obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering and Technology Sciences from Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, BE) in 2021.

From 2012 to 2016, he was an assistant professor at Simón Bolívar University and a visiting researcher at the University of Salamanca (Salamanca, SP), earning the Outstanding Teaching Prize from USB for the academic year 2014-2015.

Since 2021, Alejandro has been a Senior Researcher at the Service d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (SAAS) at Université libre de Bruxelles, where he develops advanced control-based techniques for Battery Management Systems, aiming to extend battery lifespan and reliability. Along with Prof. Emanuele Garone, he designed and manages the new SAAS battery lab, which features more than 100 testing channels and four climatic chambers for experimentally validating new trends and technologies in the battery field.

In 2025, Alejandro joins the Brussels Institute of Advanced Studies as the Industrial Chair of the 1st BrIAS Conference on Battery Management and Future Technologies, working to bridge the cutting-edge research from Brussels’ universities with the needs of the battery industry.

Despite dedicating the past eight years to batteries and energy management systems, Alejandro also maintains research interests in developing and numerically/experimentally validating constrained control techniques for biochemical and chemical processes, notably in water treatment and beer manufacturing.