I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry (2009) and a Master's Degree in Advanced Chemistry specialized in Material Science (2011). I completed my PhD at the end of November 2015 in the DIOPMA research group in the Materials Science and Physical Chemical Department at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) with the mention of international doctorate and an Excellent Cum Laude mark, with the title 'Characterization of polymers and Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage in buildings'. I obtained the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in the academic course 2016-2017. Since 2009, I have been working to research and develop materials for Thermal Energy Storage (TES): improvement of microencapsulating materials, thermal enhancement of Phase Change Materials (PCM), and cost-effective solutions for building applications. In February 2014, I went to the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand for three months as a part of my Pre-doc secondment.
I have expertise in the environmental and sustainable utilization of residues and by-products. I am the principal investigator of five different projects with private companies. I have published 37 papers (June 2021) regarding both fields. Fundació Agustí Pedro i Pons granted me in November 2015 with the recognized Post-Doctoral grant awarded by the prestigious Dipartimento di Ingegneria 'Enzo Ferrari'. I have attended more than 40 Congresses (national and international), and I was involved with the amount of 2,374,125 ¿ in the TES and construction materials fields.
I obtained the Juan de la Cierva‐Incorporación fellowship (2020‐2023) in the IDAEA group in the CSIC institution. The research was about new construction materials through waste. This contract lasts 3 months, as in January 2020, I won the prestigious Serra Húnter competition at the UB, becoming a Part-time Lecturer.
Regarding my teaching activity, I started as a Part-Time Lecturer P3 in 2013 at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy Engineering, Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Afterwards, in 2015 I won a Temporary part-time lecturer P6 (6+6) at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy Engineering. I have the accreditation Associate Professor in the field of Engineering and Architecture by the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia (AQU) from 2016. Besides, I also have the research accreditation by the AQU in 2020. As above-mentioned, since 2020, I am a Part-time Lecturer (Serra Húnter) at the Department of Materials Science and Physical Chemistry (UB), becoming.
I lecture different types of teaching such as Theoretical, Practical problems, Laboratory Practices, Special practices, and Communicative oral practices in the Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Physics Degrees. I supervised a total of 8 EHEA Bachelor's degree final projects and 1 Master's degree final project. I supervised one PhD (Dr Àlex Maldonado 'Formulation and characterization of new geopolymers based on the valorization of Municipal Solid Wastes') and currently, I am co-supervising Ms Anna Alfocea's PhD Thesis 'Formulation and characterization of alkali-activated cements and mortars by using different wastes and by-products as precursors'. I have been 17 times committee member of the EHEA Bachelor's degree final Project and 3 times PhD Committee member of International PhDs. Since 2016 I am a member of the Innovation group for the Improvement of Teaching in Structure, Properties and Processing of Materials (GIMDEPPM), and since 2019 I am the responsible for the teaching innovation project coordinator: Implementation of the reverse classroom methodology - time teaching modality (JITT) - in the subject of Materials Science of the Degree in Chemistry.
