Elena Mas Marzá

Elena Mas Marzá is a chemist (2002, Jaume I University, Spain) contracted as Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Jaume I University. She has a strong multidisciplinary background, combining organometallic chemistry, homogenous catalysis, electrocatalysis and applied physics. Her research has been mainly related to the development of novel catalysts for the production of added value chemicals. In the last years, her expertise has expanded to the design and development of optoelectronic devices for photoelectrochemical applications. Elena completed her PhD degree in Chemistry in 2006, under the supervision of Prof. Eduardo Peris. In 2007, she joined Prof. Antoni Llobet's group at the Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ) as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on the study of ruthenium complexes for water oxidation processes. During 2008-2009, she was a postdoctoral associate at Prof. Mike Whittlesey's group at the University of Bath, working on the coordination and activation of small molecules by ruthenium complexes. In January 2010, she moved to Jaume I University with Prof. Eduardo Peris, as a ‘Juan de la Cierva’ researcher, where she studied catalytic hydrogen-borrowing processes for the activation of CO2 and NH3 to obtain added value products. In June 2012, she joined Prof. Rosario Fernández and Prof. Jose Mª Lassaletta's group at University of Sevilla, as a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ researcher, where she focused on enantioselective catalysis. In November 2013 she moved at the Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group at Jaume I Universitat, as a Ramón y Cajal, and became permanent at the Physics Department in June 2017. Her work has been cited >4300 times with a h-index of 34 (Google Scholar, 12/2022). Elena is the author of more than 55 research articles and two book chapters. In July 2020 she was appointed as the Secretary of INAM and in March 2023 as the Director.