Dr. Simon Guerrero-Cruz is an Assistant Professor at the Environmental Engineering and Management program, Asian Institute of Technology.

Mexican of origin, he graduated with a Bachelor’s in Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Guadalajara in 2011. By winning one of 270 scholarships from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology, cohort 2011, he studied a dual Master in Environmental Sciences Technology and Engineering from UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands, Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze in the Czech Republic, and Ghent Universiteit in Belgium; from which he graduated Cum Laude. He then got his Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology from Radboud University, The Netherlands. To continue with his commitment to research, he won a HORIZON Marie Curie Individual Fellowship to pursue his post-doctoral research on GHG microbiology at the Catalan Institute for Water Research in Girona, Spain. He has a collective track record of 2.4 million euros in funding for individual projects, fellowships, and multi-country collaborations.

His research interests are GHG mitigation from human-made and mismanaged ecosystems such as rice agriculture, wastewater & sewage facilities, and urban water systems i.e., canals and ponds. His work is centered around the microbiology that rules GHG dynamics in these ecosystems and the creation of biotechnologies to abate Climate Change. Next to research and postgraduate education duties, he is also constantly engaged in policy and management development through his engagement with international NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, e.g., UNEP GHG assessments and integration of novel biotechnologies in the policy landscape