He is the Director of the MSc RENE of the InnoEnergy programme, and principal investigator of the Engineering Science and Global Development research group. He has conducted and directed several works on Energy use of biomass and waste by thermo-chemical processes (gasification and pyrolysis), published over 75 scientific papers, authored and co-authored over 10 books, and set-up a small scale biomass gasification pilot plant at UPC. Dr Velo has participated as a consultant in the application of biomass based systems for the provision of energy services.