Teresa Andreu is senior lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Physical Chemistry and holds a degree in Chemistry (UB, 1999) and a PhD in Materials Science and Technology (UB, 2004). She has been part-time lecturer at the Dept. of Materials Science of University of Barcelona (2014-17) and Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2017-19). After a period in industry as researcher in MacDermid Inc, she has been deputy group leader at the Catalonia Energy Research Institute (2009-20), and is now a member of the consolidated Materials for Surface Engineering (MES) group, and the principal investigator of the Sustainable Electrochemical Processes group at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTC). Her research focuses on the use of green electricity for the sustainability of the chemical industry, with the development of materials and reactors for hydrogen production, carbon dioxide conversion and waste valorization using (photo)electrochemical or plasma-catalytic technologies. Throughout her career, she has participated in and led several national, European and industrial projects.

She has participated in the definition of the Catalan Hydrogen Roadmap for 2030-2050 and is currently an active member of the Catalan Hydrogen Network H2CAT (Home – Xarxa H2CAT) and of the Executive Committee of the Hub of Global Sustainability of the University of Barcelona. She has been member of EMIRI (the energy materials industrial research initiative), the Spanish Technological Platform of CO2, PTECO2 (CCU group), and is currently member of the Real Sociedad de Quimica-grupo Electroquimica, the International Society of Electrochemistry, European Materials Research Society and Societat Catalana de Química (SCT). From 2024, she is appointed as SCT representative in the Physical Chemistry division of the European Chemical Society (EUCHEMS).

She is professor of Materials for Energy at the Master of Renewable and Sustainable Energies. She has mentored several postdoc researchers, supervised more than 10 TFMs and 11 PhD thesis in renewable energy-related subjects. Among the graduate doctors, most of them continue their scientific or technological career. Now, 4 thesis are in progress at UB. T. Andreu has authored 4 patents and more than 100 scientific articles. Her h-index is 49 (Scopus, march 2026).

Frédéric Chandezon, Dr. Ing. Hab. holds an engineer degree in physics (1991) from the Physics and Chemistry school of Paris (ESPCI) and a Ph.D. degree from Grenoble University (1994). After a postdoctoral stay at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, he joined CEA in Grenoble as research scientist (1996). His research interest covered atomic clusters (during his PhD and postdoc), nanoparticles and (nano)materials for energy, in particular for energy storage. From 2016 until 2020, he co-created and headed the SyMMES laboratory, a CEA-CNRS-Grenoble University joint laboratory that develops basic research related to low-carbon energy and health. From 2013-2020, he was the coordinator of the EERA Joint Program AMPEA (Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications). Since 2019, he is deputy coordinator of the SUNERGY European initiative on fossil-free fuels and chemicals (https://www.sunergy-initiative.eu/) and of the SUNER-C European project (06/2022 à 05/2025). He is and was involved in several European projects related to energy storage (batteries and chemical energy storage). He is currently European policy officer for SUNERGY and renewable energy programmes at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG) at CEA and he is also the deputy head of the CEA Carbon Circular Economy Programme.

James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry and Sustainable Energy in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, following his previous professorial appointments at Imperial College London and the University of Swansea. His research focuses on the use of transient optical spectroscopies to investigate the function of new materials for sustainable energy conversion, including materials for artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysis, solar cells and electrolysis. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017 and appointed a CBE for services to photochemistry and solar energy research in 2022.

Dr. Miguel García Tecedor (MSc. Applied Physics, 2013, PhD. Physics 2017, both at the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM) is a Senior Assistant Researcher at the Photoactivated Processes Unit of IMDEA Energy. Miguel developed his PhD, focused on the growth and characterization of nanostructures and their possible applications, in the Physics of Electronic Nanomaterials group at the UCM. In 2015, he joined the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), located in Kjeller, Norway, where he worked on the synthesis and characterization of organic-inorganic compounds for the passivation of silicon solar cells. In July 2017, Miguel began working at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) of the Universitat Jaume I, where he worked on the development of novel materials and strategies for different (photo)electrochemical applications. In March 2021, Miguel joined IMDEA to continue his research focused on solar fuels generation. In 2023 he was awarded a Junior Leader La Caixa fellowship and the R3 certificate from the Spanish Research Agency. Recently, he was awarded with the Ramón y Cajal contract in the 2023 call. 

Sixto Giménez (M. Sc. Physics 1996, Ph. D. Physics 2002) is Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His professional career has been focused on the study of micro and nanostructured materials for different applications spanning from structural components to optoelectronic devices. During his PhD thesis at the University of Navarra, he studied the relationship between processing of metallic and ceramic powders, their sintering behavior and mechanical properties. He took a Post-Doc position at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven where he focused on the development of non-destructive and in-situ characterization techniques of the sintering behavior of metallic porous materials.  In January 2008, he joined the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices of University Jaume I where he is involved in the development of new concepts for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices based on nanoscaled materials, particularly studying the optoelectronic and electrochemical responses of the devices by electrical impedance spectroscopy. He has co-authored more than 80 scientific papers in international journals and has received more than 5000 citations. His current h-index is 31. 

I am working at the Institute of Advanced Materials of the University Jaume I. My research is focused in the development of advanced hybrid materials for energy conversion and storage based on catalytic transformations. The hybrid materials are developed from well-defined organometallic complexes. The approach for such applications is divided on three different research lines: i) Organometallic chemistry: design, characterisation and properties of new catalysts ii) Catalytic applications in processes related to hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. iii) New materials: study of the properties and applications of organometallic compounds and metal nanoparticles supported in graphene derivatives for energy conversion and storage. Research Lines:

Ad. Mat. for catalysis

Rationale design of catalytic materials derived from organometallic complexes.

Development of stable metal nanoparticles as improved catalytic systems.

Ligand design for the immobilization of metal complexes and nanoparticles.

Fundamental and applied study of catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation processes.

Ad. Mat. for energy storage

Development of systems for the storage of hydrogen in the liquid form using “Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs).

Development of Hydrogen Storage technologies for transport and uses of hydrogen.

Industrial Innovation and Technology Transfer

The group is involved in industrial projects on Hydrogen Storage, depolymerization processes and catalyst development in connection with a regional funding program (AVI).

Professor Adélio Mendes (born 1964) received his PhD degree from the University of Porto in 1993.

Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Coordinates a large research team with research interests mainly in dye sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells including water splitting and solar redox flow batteries, photocatalysis, redox flow batteries, electrochemical membrane reactors (PEMFC, H-SOFC, chemical synthesis), methanol steam reforming, membrane and adsorbent-based gas separations and carbon molecular sieve membranes synthesis and characterization.

Professor Mendes authored or co-authored more than 300 articles in peer-review international journals, filled 23 families of patents and is the author of a textbook; received an Advanced Research Grant from the ERC on dye-sensitized solar cells for building integrated of ca. 2 MEuros and since 2013 he is partner in 4 more EU projects and leads one EU project. Presently he is the leader of a FET Open project, GOTSolar, on perovskite solar cells. He received the Air Products Faculty Excellence 2011 Award (USA) for developments in gas separation and Solvay & Hovione Innovation Challenge 2011 prize, the Prize of Coimbra University of 2016, and the prize of Technology Innovation - 2017 by the University of Porto. Presently, he is the Coordinator of CEner-FEUP, the Competence Center for Energy of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto.

Ifan is a Professor in Electrochemistry at the Department of Materials at Imperial College: he leads the Interfacial Electrochemistry Group there and is also Atoms to Devices Research Area Lead at the Henry Royce Institute.

Ifan joined Imperial College in July 2017. Prior to Imperial, he was at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU); he was first employed as a postdoctoral researcher, then  as assistant professor and finally as associate professor and leader of the Electrocatalysis Group there. In 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appointed Ifan as the Peabody Visiting Associate Professor. He taught and conducted research at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT for a whole semester.

Ifan’s research aims to enable the large-scale electrochemical conversion of renewable energy to fuels and valuable chemicals and vice versa. Such processes will be critical in order to allow the increased uptake of renewable energy. His focus is on the catalyst at the electrode, i.e. the electrocatalyst. It turns out that the electrocatalyst material defines the efficiency of several important electrochemical processes, including:(i) electrolysis for the storage of renewable electricity — which is inherently intermittent — in the form of fuels, such as hydrogen or alcohols.(ii) fuel cells as a potentially zero emission source of power for automotive vehicles. (iii) the green synthesis of valuable chemicals, such as ammonia and H2O2. (iv) batteries, which tend to degrade by gas evolution at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Hence the reactions that need to be accelerated in electrolysers and fuel cells — such as CO2, CO, O2 and H2 evolution — are precisely those that need to be inhibited in batteries.

Ifan has discovered or co-discovered several new catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, which exhibited significant improvements in performance over the prior state-of-the-art. In particular, his research on hydrogen peroxide production led to the establishment of the spinout company, HP Now.

Ifan is the recipient of RSC's Geoffrey Barker Medal (2024), the RSC's John Jeyes Award (2021). He also currently holds an European Resarch Council Consolidator Grant (2021-2025). Since 2022, he has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.