Camilo Arturo Mesa Zamora

Bio and research interests
Camilo graduated as Chemist from the National University of Colombia in 2008, followed by a Masters degree in Materials Science at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) and the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2011. After a teaching position in Colombia Camilo joined the Durrant group at Imperial College London to pursue his PhD in 2014 and graduated in 2019. His research interests focus on photo- and electrocatalytic materials for solar fuels production, especially for water and organic substrates oxidation reactions. Camilo's master thesis focused on understanding the role of cobalt based overlayers on hematite phoroanodes and in his PhD thesis he studied the limiting kinetic and mechanistic parameters of oxidation reactions on metal-oxide photoanodes for solar fuels production. Camilo obtained the first prize for both, best masters and PhD thesis at University of Bologna and Imperial College London, respectively. He has authored 13 papers in research journals, including JACS and Nature Chemistry, and a book chapter, with over 700 citations and h-index 9. Camilo is an active member of the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló from 2020 and is focusing his research on developing and understanding the limiting factors of metal oxide electrocatalysts for organic substrates oxidation reactions.