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in France (IFP Energies Nouvelles - Solaize and IRCE - Villeurbanne) then in Spain (URV - Tarragona), she is now CNRS research Director and head of the Bio-Sourced Materials research group at Institute Jean Lamour. Her present research deals with the preparation, characterization, and applications of porous solids. She is co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers.

Gudrun Reichenauer obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She pursued her career as a Research Associate first at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) and the Physics Department of the University of Würzburg (1993-1998), then at Princeton University and Princeton Materials Institute (NJ, USA, 1999-2000). Since 2000, she has led the Nanomaterials Group at ZAE Bayern. Her scientific interests lie in identification of nanoeffects for use in energy related fields, synthesis of well scalable nanomaterials for applications in energy technology, and development of novel or adjusted methods for fast and artifact-free characterization of nanoporous materials.





Francisco José Maldonado-Hódar obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry with distinction from the University of Granada, Spain in 1993, where he was a member of the Group of Research in Carbon Materials and received an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 2012, he returned to the University as a Full Professor in the Inorganic Chemistry Department. His primary research interest is in the areas of Carbon Materials and Heterogeneous Catalysis for the purpose of developing materials with fitted physicochemical properties to be used as adsorbents, molecular sieves, and heterogeneous catalysts in processes relating to environmental protection, clean energy, and fine chemistry. Maldonado-Hódar is co-author of more than 130 highly cited manuscripts (h=34), as well as book chapters and patents.



Esther Bail¿n-Garcia obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry with distinction in the area of materials design for catalytic and photocatalytic applications from the University of Granada, Spain in 2015. The quality of her work has been recognized through the awarding of the Young Researchers Award from the Spanish Carbon Group and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Granada. After postdoctoral stays at the University of Trieste, Italy and the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, Portugal, she earned a postdoctoral position (Juan de la Cierva fellow) at the University of Alicante, Spain in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, where she currently works on materials design for environmental and clean energy applications.



Nathalie Job received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium in 2006. Her thesis work, dedicated to carbon gels for applications in heterogeneous catalysis, evolved towards carbon-supported electrocatalysts for fuel cells during her post-doctoral fellowship (F.R.S.-FNRS). Since 2014, she has held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering (NCE group) at the University of Liège. Her research now deals with electrochemical devices such as fuel cells, batteries, and supercapacitors from materials synthesis to the building of complete systems.