Albert Tarancon's Group
Meet the team
Albert Tarancón
Group Leader
Albert holds M.Sc. and PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona (2001, 2007) and M. Eng. in Materials Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2007). He worked as research associate at the IMB-CSIC (ES) and as visiting...
Alex Morata
Senior Scientist
Alex Morata received his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2002, where he also carried out his Ph.D. in Physics. He has worked...
Marc Torrell
Senior Scientist
Marc Torrell received his Chemistry degree in 2004 and the PhD in 2008 in Material Science at the University of Barcelona. In 2011 received his...
Marc Nuñez
Lab Technician Manager
Marc received his Nanophysics Master degree in 2002 and his PhD in 2005 in the topic of graphene nanodevices patterning and characterisation by...
Federico Baiutti
Research Scientist
Dr. Federico Baiutti holds a M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the University of Trieste and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of...
Nerea Alayo
Research Scientist
Nerea has focused her career on the development of nano/micro devices. She has participated in several projects related to nanotechnology...
Francesco Chiabrera
Research Scientist
Francesco Chiabrera holds a M.Sc. in energy and nuclear engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and a Ph.D. in nanoscience from the University...
Antonio Gianfranco Sabato
Research Scientist (Ramon y Cajal)
Dr. Sabato successfully obtained a Master degree in Materials Engineer (2013) and a PhD in Materials Science and Technology (2017) at Politecnico...
Juan Carlos González Rosillo
Research Scientist
Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo obtained holds a M.Sc. in Materials Science and Nanotechnology and a PhD in Materials Science from the University...
Lucile Bernadet
Research Scientist
Lucile Bernadet was graduated in 2013 as engineer specialized in storage and conversion of energy from the Graduate School of Chemistry, Physics...
Kosova Kreka
Research Scientist
After finishing her bachelors in Physics, Kosova was part of a European program called master in material science exploring large scale facilities...
Carlota Bozal-Ginesta
Research Scientist
Carlota works on applying machine learning to the design of lanthanum oxide cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie...
Antonio María Asensio
Tenure-track Researcher
Antonio Maria Asensio is a Chemist with a dedicated academic background and expertise in Electrochemistry and Solid Oxide Cells. Holding an M.Sc...
Vladislav Kolotygin
Tenure-track Researcher
Dr. Vladislav Kolotygin obtained his PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015 (University of Aveiro, Portugal) working...
Ana Maria Martos
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ana Mª Martos received her Chemistry degree in 2010 at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the master’s degree (2011) and PhD (2015) in...
Olha Skurikhina
Postdoctoral Researcher
Olha Skurikhina obtained her MSc. from National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” specializing in adsorbents and membranes for various...
Kevin Castelló Lux
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kevin Castelló Lux obtained his Chemistry degree (2014) and the master’s degree (2018) specializing in Chemistry and Materials Science for Energy...
Elif Kabakci
Postdoctoral Researcher
Elif Kabakci obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Eskisehir Technical University in Materials Science and Engineering. Elif...
Vikash Gajraj
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vikash Gajraj is a materials scientist and his primary research is related to the development of nanostructure materials for energy storage...
Natalia Kostretsova
PhD Student
Natalia Kostretsova obtained her Bachelor´s degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2017 and Master´s...
Maritta Lira
PhD Student
Maritta Lira received her bachelor´s and master’s degree at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). During the bachelor, she worked...
Juande Sirvent
PhD Student
Juande Sirvent holds a B.Sc. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2016), and a M.Sc. in Applied...
Carolina Duque Sierra
PhD Student
Carolina received her undergraduate degree in Physics with a minor in Philosophy from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) in 2018. There, she...
Fernanda Monteiro Freitas
PhD Student
Fernanda obtained her Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s (2019) degree in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte...
Philipp Langner
PhD Student
Philipp received his bachelor’s and master’s degree at University of Ulm (Germany) in the course Chemistry & Management. During...
Fjorelo Buzi
PhD Student
Fjorelo Buzi holds a B.Sc degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies (2014-2017) and a M.Sc degree in Chemical Sciences with focus on Solid...
Ismael Babeli
PhD Student
Ismael holds B.Sc in Engineering Physiscs from Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya (2019) and a M.Sc in Nanoscience and nanotechnology from...
Natasha di Benedetto
PhD Student
Natasha holds a Materials Chemist degree (2019) and a Master in Chemistry (2022) from Universidad de la República, UdelaR, Uruguay, where she...
Marlene Anzengruber
PhD Student
Marlene Anzengruber holds a B.Sc degree in Environmental System Sciences (2019) from the University of Graz (Austria) and M.Sc degrees in Advance...
Paul Nizet Ruiz
PhD Student
Paul holds B.Sc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from Univeristat Autònoma de Barcelona (2021) and a M.Sc in Quantum Science and Technology from...
Lisa Laa
PhD Student
Lisa Laa is currently a PhD student at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC, Barcelona). Lisa received her bachelor’s and master’s...
Beatrice Laurenti
PhD Student
Beatrice obtained her BS and MSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Rome La Sapienza. During her BS internship, she studied the role of...
Santiago Márquez
PhD Student
Santiago Márquez received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2021 and a master’s degree in applied materials chemistry in 2022 at the...
Daiana Marcia Ferreira
PhD Student
Daiana holds a BSc in Chemistry (2016), a Materials Chemist degree (2020) and a Master in Chemistry (2019) from Universidad de la República...
Walter Zambelli
PhD Student
Walter received his Bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering in 2021 and his Master’s degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering on the topic of...
Alumni
Aitor Hornés
Post Doc Researcher
Aitor Hornés is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Advanced Materials for Energy at IREC. Attracted by problem analysis and the search...
Miguel Morales
Post Doc Researcher 2016-2018
Working at IREC from 2016 to 2019 in advanced materials for energy as a Post-Doc.
Mercè Pacios
Post Doc Researcher
Mercè Pacios received her PhD degree in chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2011. Her work was based on the study of...
Iñigo Garbayo
Post Doc Researcher
PhD at IREC from 2010 to 2013. PostDoctoral researcher from 2016 to 2019 in the frame of ERC´s ULTRASOFC project. Prof. Links LinkedIn Orcid...
Arianna Pesce
PhD Student
Arianna Pesce received her Material Science Degree in 2014 and Material Science and Engineering degree in 2017 at the University of Genoa, Italy...
Simone Anelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Simone Anelli received his Material Science and Engineering Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of Genoa. He did is bachelor thesis at...
Valerie Siller
Postdoc researcher
Valerie Siller graduated in 2016 from the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany with a M. Sc. in Material Science and started her PhD at...
Marco Bianchini
PhD Student
Marco Bianchini obtained his bachelor’s degree at Politecnico di Milano in Materials and Nanotechnology engineering and a M.Sc. from an Erasmus...
José Sojo
PhD Student
Jose’s career is quite multidisciplinary, although he is been always dealing with the energy field. Jose holds a bachelor’s degree in...
Yunqing Tang
PhD Student
Yunqing Tang received her bachelor´s and master’s degree at University of Seville in Materials Engineering and Science and Technology of New...
Aneta Slodczyk
Post Doc Researcher
Post doctoral researcher at IREC from 2016 to 2017 Expert in Vibrational spectroscopy (Raman, IR) applied for material science
Rahmiye Zerrin Yarbay-Sahin
Post Doc Researcher (Visitor)
Dr. Rahmiye Zerrin Yarbay-Sahin completed her MSc about perovskite-type catalyst development for multi fuel catalytic reformer for hydrogen...
Mª Carmen Monterde
PhD Student
In October 2017 she began a industrial PhD in collaboration with UPC, AMES and IREC on ‘Development and optimization of interconnectors for...
Carlos Moncasi
Master Student
Bachelor (2016) and Master (2018) student. Current PhD student at LMGP, Grenoble
Julián Puszkiel
Post Doc Researcher
Dr Puszkiel completed his doctorate in Engineering Science about experimental investigations on binary and complex hydrides for hydrogen storage...
Gotzon Garcia
Engineer
Gotzon Garcia obtained his bachelor´s degree in Industrial Chemical Engineering at university of the Basque Country (2007), and carried out an...
Gerard Gadea
PhD Student
In IREC from 2013 to 2018 working on Si/Si-Ge based nanostructures for thermoelectric applications – 2013 Master thesis in growth and...
Marina Machado Livinalli
Visitor PhD Student
Marina obtained her chemistry degree in 2014 from the University of St Andrews, UK, where she was part of the Energy and Materials research group...
Pietro Giacomoni
Master Student
Pietro obtained his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and in 2018 he enrolled in the master degree in Energy...
Radostin Pavlov
Postdoctoral Researcher
Radostin holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science (UJI, Castellon, 2002) and a M.Sc. in Photonics (UPC, Barcelona, 2011). His broad experience covers...
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