(ITQ (CSIC-UPV))
Sonia is a Tenured Scientist at the Instituto de Tecnología Química, ITQ. PhD in 2013 by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), her work was devoted to gas separation membranes based on mixed ionic conductors and their applications in catalysis. She has co-authored 39 peer-reviewed contributions in international journals, and participated in more than 50 international conferences and national and European research projects, including industry contracts. In 2010, she received the Young Scientist Award by the European Material Research Society. She holds three patents on mixed ionic-electronic conductors based membranes. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Escolástico joined the Institute for Microprocess Engineering (IMVT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. In the present, she works in the Energy Conversion and Storage group of ITQ and her main activities deal with catalytic membrane reactors, microreactors and material science.
(ITQ (CSIC-UPV))
Laura, (female, young postdoctoral researcher) is a Post-Doctoral Scientist at the Instituto de Tecnología Química, ITQ. Her research interests and expertise include material science, electrochemistry and 3D tomography techniques of solid-state ionic devices, particularly fuel cells/electrolyzers, gas separation membranes and catalytic membrane reactors. She received her PhD by the Physics Faculty at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2014 carried out at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC). She performed research stays at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and Georgia Tech, US. From 2015 to 2019, Dr. Laura Almar joined the Department of Advanced Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IAM-WET) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. She has co-authored 20 peer-reviewed contributions in international journals and participated in 30 international conferences in the field. At the present, she combines Research with Project Management, being part of the coordination and dissemination team of the H2020 projects iCAREPLAST and eCOCO2.
(SINTEF AS)
Marie-Laure is research manager of the group Thin Film and Membrane Technologies at SINTEF Industry since 2021. Her research activities focus on the development of electrochemical devices for sustainable technologies aiming at power, chemicals and fuel production with CO2 capture. She received her PhD on Materials Science and Engineering by the CIRIMAT at University of Paul Sabatier in Toulouse in 2005 focusing on solid oxide fuel cells. She has since been working on gas separation membranes for the selective removal of CO2, H2 or O2, as well as proton ceramic based cells and stacks for steam electrolysis and co-electrolysis. She is currently coordinating several European projects (WINNER, SUSTAINCELL) funded by Clean Hydrogen Partnership.
(SHELL)
Arian Nijmeijer holds a PhD in Inorganic Material Science from the University of Twente. He is Principal Science Expert Membrane Technology in Shell with more than 20 years of experience in membrane technology for energy efficient separations in the energy sector. In his role, Arian coordinates membrane research, development and deployment ranging from aqueous and non-aqueous filtrations to gas separation as well as from ceramic and metal membranes and membrane reactors to a large range of polymeric membranes. One of his focus areas is membrane reactors for hydrogen production and chemical conversions.
Since November 2006, Arian is leading the Inorganic Membrane group of the University of Twente as a 0.2 FTE full professor.
(SHELL)
Peters roles over almost 4 decades span across experimentation in the lab and field, develop/design and commissioning of new (reactor, heat transfer, (top, side, in-line, jet) mixing, separation, transport, energy, drilling, hydrogen) technologies, technical services to all Shell businesses, root cause analysis, emergency response, leading pace setting of (maintenance) shut-downs across the globe, and detailed modelling of technologies and processes.
As senior principal science expert, he explores and develops new pathways via collaborations in his vast network with other businesses, academia, institutes, national labs, and venture capital investment. He has a keen interest in the science aspects, developments of technologies and engineering solutions for clean production of performance products, as well as clean / renewable energy. Combinations and interfaces between disciplines has his specific attention, and ….… of course still linked with all aspects of fluid flow and reactor engineering, amongst others as technical authority. Serving in technical advisory boards and councils is another angle to help shape projects and (software) services. Currently he is member of the national science agenda review committee in The Netherlands, selecting new research proposals in all fields of the agenda.
A variety of the breakthrough approaches and innovations were recognized with European Key Innovator Awards, and disseminated via patents, conference presentations and journal papers.
(CoorsTek Membrane Science)
Selene is currently the Research Manager of CoorsTek Membrane Sciences located in Oslo (Norway). She received her PhD in Sustainable Chemistry specialized in Catalysis by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2012, carried out at the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ). From 2012 to 2014, she served as researcher in the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN) at Universitetet i Oslo specializing in catalytic membrane reactors. In 2014, she joined CoorsTek Membrane Sciences. In CoorsTek, she works in the development of protonic ceramic membranes for use in catalytic membrane reactors for chemical upgrading and hydrogen generation. The outcome of this development has been published in Science and Nature branded journals and resulted in patents. Selene is the main coordinator for the project SINGLE (Clean Hydrogen Partnership, GA ID 101112144).
This Autumn School is supported by several European projects. The projects (WINNER, PROTOSTACK, SINGLE, SUSTAINCELL) are supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research. The ECOCO2 project has received European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding under grant agreement N 838077.
