Serra Alfaro, José Manuel
Prof. José M. Serra (Valencia, 1976) completed his doctoral dissertation at the ITQ under the supervision of Prof. A. Corma, in collaboration with the Institut Français du Pétrole. The dissertation focused on the development of new tools for combinatorial catalysis and their application in the design and optimization of new industrial catalysts. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, working on the development of nanostructured SOFC cathodes as well as ion-conducting membranes. In 2006, he returned to the ITQ, where he currently heads the research line on fuel cells and ion-conducting membranes, leading the ITQ’s Energy Conversion and Storage Group. His scientific work focuses primarily on the application of catalysis and materials science to: a) the development of components for solid oxide fuel cells/electrolyzers, with special attention to the design and characterization of new electrocatalysts; and b) the development of mixed-ion-electron-conducting membranes for the separation of oxygen and hydrogen and for their application in membrane catalytic reactors. As a result of his work, Jose M. Serra is the co-author of more than 190 articles, 18 book chapters, and 27 patents in the field of catalysis and energy. Prof. Serra is the CSIC representative in the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA): Basic Science for Energy Joint Programme (AMPEA). He coordinated the CSIC’s White Paper on “Clean, Safe, and Efficient Energy.”
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