Research Team in EVOMOF subproject
Roberto Fernández de Luis
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Researcher on Materials Science. Roberto’s research is focused on the synthesis of hybrid materials and their local and long-range crystal structure determination when exposed to different external conditions. For these studies, he has specialized on single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction at non-ambient conditions.
Itziar Oyarzabal Epelde
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Ikerbasque Research Fellow with a background on Chemical Science and Applied Chemistry. Itziar’s expertise is based on the synthesis under inert-gas atmospheres (Schlenk technique and glovebox) and solvothermal synthesis.
Gotzone Barandika Argoitia
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Researcher in Materials Science. Gotzone’s research is focused on magnetic compounds, biomaterials, and metal organic frameworks. She is involved in several research projects focused on the development of MOF-type porous materials for the storage and transport of mass and energy.
Guillermo Copello
University of Buenos Aires
Researcher in analytical Chemistry. Synthesis of materials based on natural polymers. Development of polymeric derivatives and nanocomposite materials. Characterization of their chemical behaviour and their applicability in environmental, biotechnological and medical fields.
Elvira Vidal Martín
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Predoctoral researcher. She was experience with different characterization techniques, such as X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy or tandem mass spectrometry. Elvira’s research is focused on the development of advanced MOFs with applications in environmental science and green energy generation.
Harol David Martínez Hernandez
Institut Laue Langevin
Physicist, Master in Materials Science and Engineering, and an expert in semiconductor defects. Knowledge of different characterization techniques such as photoluminescence, UV-Vis, FTIR and Raman spectroscopies, X-Ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Hall effect, photoacoustics, thermal relaxation method, Brookfield viscosity, Shore hardness, and contact angle, among others.
Research Team in CAPSOLVE subproject
Pedro Luis Arias
University of the Basque Country
Professor in Chemical Engineering. Pedro´s profile is focused on the sustainable integration of diverse fields in chemical engineering, involving hydrocracking, hydrodeoxygenation, oxidations, oligomerization, dehydration and separation processes coupled to designing solid-catalysts, reactors and processes as well as modelling tasks.
Iker Aguirrezabal
University of the Basque Country
Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. Iker´s profile is focused into alkene reactions working under capillary condensation conditions in microporous (MOFs) and mesoporous (MCM-41) materials applied to mechanistic and kinetic understanding.
Miryam Gil Calvo
University of the Basque Country
Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering. Miryam’s profile is focused on the design, synthesis, characterization and testing of catalysts for different sustainable catalytic processes, mainly, those related with hydrogen technologies and alkene reactions.
Haritz Etxeberria Altuna
University of the Basque Country
Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. Haritz´s profile is focused into synthesis and characterization of aerogel type catalysts and photocatalysts for carbon dioxide methanation reaction.
Mikel Oregui Bengoechea
University of the Basque Country
Professor in Chemical Engineering. Mikel´s profile is focused on the development of novel thermochemical cycles for green hydrogen production and on the development of novel thermocatalytic processes for lignin valorization.
Pedro Jesús Cantarero Gómez
University of the Basque Country
Predoctoral researcher. Pedro Jesús Cantarero holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and a Master’s Degree in Applied Chemistry, both at the University of Malaga. His research focuses on analyzing sustainable strategies and methods in chemical reaction engineering to use bioalcohols and MOF catalysts for producing aviation-range fuels.
Former members of the research team
Leire Celaya Azcoaga
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Nerea Landaluce Álvarez
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures
Institutions
Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures (BCMaterials)
The Basque Centre on Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCM) is a strategic initiative of Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It belongs to the Basque Excellence Research Centres (BERC) network, and covers all aspects from the study from fundamentals of new materials to their applicability, being the five their research priority areas: (i) Active and smart materials, (ii) Advanced functional materials, (iii) Functional surfaces and coatings, (iv) Micro and nano-devices and (v) Nanostructured materials. BCM is currently composed of 80 members, which have in total more than 1000 publications in indexed journals. The facilities of the BCM are located at the Martina Casiano Building, where the centre has seven fully equipped laboratories devoted to the synthesis of materials and their full characterization. Additionally, the BCM has just expanded its installations and six new laboratories are accessible nowadays. This will open the possibility to the researchers of the BCMaterials to further extend the applicability of the developed materials to the bio-chemistry, biology, smart coatings, or environmental prevention, monitoring and remediation research fields. BCM has an active and well-structured dissemination and communication strategy to reach the society at large. This strategy has contributed to the wider awareness and dissemination of the knowledge of the paramount importance of the materials science in the future transition to a sustainable and green economy.
University of Basque Country (SUPREN research group)
The Sustainable Process Engineering Research Group (SUPREN) is part of the EHU Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Group´s activities are concentrated in biofuel and biobased product formation, H2 production, heterogeneous catalysis applied to sustainable processes and engineering applied to techno-economic studies. 14 tenure researchers plus postdoctoral researchers (3) and PhD students (10) form this Group. Activities are financed by regional, national and European funds and through contracts with industrial partners.
