On the 24th of June 2013, Pedro Haro presented the dissertation for his Doctoral Thesis entitled "Thermochemical Biorefineries based on DME as platform chemical: conceptual design and technoeconomic assessment". The thesis deals with the design of thermochemical biorefineries with multiproduction (fuels and chemicals). The thesis has been carried out within the I+DEA, BIOSOS and BIOTER projects. The members of the comittee were: Prof. Constantino Fernández Pereira and Prof. Alberto Gómez Barea (University of Seville), Prof. Filip Johnsson (Chalmers University of Technology), Prof. Eulogio Castro Galiano (University of Jaen) and Dr. Mercedes Ballesteros Perdices (CIEMAT). The thesis was approved with Cum Laude distinction and with International Mention. The presentation of the thesis is available here