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IMDEA Energy Institute

Víctor A. de la Peña O’Shea

Head of Protoactivated Processes Unit (PAP) at IMDEA Energy. He has more than 15 years of experience in different areas of catalysis for energy and environmental applications. He is co-author of more than 90 papers, 3 book chapters, 3 patents and more than 100 conference communications with 15 invited talks. During the last years he has participated in more than 25 projects funded by Regional, National, European programs and Private sector acting as Principal Investigator in 15 of them with 5 projects focused on artificial photosynthesis under developing. Among these projects area ERC-CoG “HyMAP” and a CSA-FETFLAG H2020 “SUNRISE” in which he is the Spanish contact point. In 2018 he was awarded with the prize to the best ERC project in the Comunidad de Madrid. Currently, he is the chair of the CO2 uses Group in the Spanish technological platform of CO2 (PTECO2) and Chairman of the Spanish excellence network of solar-fuels (FOTOFUEL).

Fernando Fresno

Senior Assistant Researcher at IMDEA Energy. He has more than 10 years of experience in research in light-driven catalytic materials and processes for energy and environmental applications, during which he has published more than 40 articles in high impact journals. He has participated in more than 15 research projects, 4 as PI, and supervised 1 PhD and 8 MD and BSc students.

Dr. Marta Liras

Senior Assistant Researcher at IMDEA Energy. She has more than 15 years of experience in research in the design and synthesis of photoactive polymers and related materials. She has published more than 70 articles in high impact journals (h index = 23). She has participated in more than 15 research projects, and supervised 2 PhD and 9 MD and BSc theses

Dr. Mariam Barawi

Postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Energy. She is experienced in photoelectrochemical devices for solar fuels production and in electrochromic materials for smart window devices. She has authored 24 scientific publications with around 600 citations (h = 13) and participated actively in 5 research projects funded by national and international institutions.

Dr. Miguel Gómez

Postdoctoral Researcher at IMDEA Energy. He has experience on the areas of organic photochemistry and molecular spectroscopy in the nanosecond to millisecond scale. He has authored more than 10 scientific publications and participated in several research projects.

Dr. Teresa Naranjo

Postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Energy. She has more than five years experience in organic synthesis and characterization of a wide variety of organic compounds. She is co-author of 7 papers in peer-reviewed journals.