Alvaro Lagartos is a Chemical Engineer with over 13 years of experience in the water industry and desalination. He started his career as Project Engineer in R&D with reverse osmosis pilot plants in Spain and USA. After a brief episode of few months working as Operation Coordinator in Chile in a desalination project in the mining industry, he continued his career as a Technical Service Engineer for osmosis plants in Western Australia. Following that role, he worked as Project Engineer involved with design and commissioning for reverse osmosis, water treatment and waste water treatment plants also in Western Australia. After this experience, Alvaro worked as Mechanical and Process Engineer for water projects in Melbourne acquiring experience as project manager and consultancy. Finally, in 2017 he joined LG Chem where he currently works as Senior Application Engineer looking after Europe and Africa.