MAIDER ZARRABEITIA IPIÑA

Presentation

Maider Zarrabeitia received her bachelor degree in Chemistry in 2012 and Master of Science degree (MSc) in New Materials in 2013, both at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). During MSc period she was working as University research assistance at UPV/EHU at the Inorganic Department, headed by Prof. Dr. Teófilo Rojo. The MSc project was carried out at CIC energiGUNE. She obtained her International PhD in 2016 at the UPV/EHU entitled "Low and high voltage stability of Na-ion battery materials: study of structural, transport and interfacial properties" under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Marquez and Dr. Montse Casas-Cabanas at Structure & Surface Analysis group of CIC energiGUNE. The PhD was financially supported by three years pre-doctoral fellowship from the Basque Government. Her PhD project was focused on the relationships between structural, transport and interfacial properties of three different systems of low and high voltage electrode materials for Na-ion batteries. She studied the structural properties by ex-situ & in-situ X-ray and Neutron diffraction, transport properties by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and the electrode/electrolyte interphases by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). During her PhD, she carried out two stays of three months each one at University of Camerino (Italy) where she studied the ionic/electronic conductivity of the electrode by EIS for Na-ion half- and full-cells working with Dr. Francesco Nobili under Prof. Roberto Marassi´s group. After her PhD, she was working as PostDoc researcher at the Inorganic Department of UPV/EHU in 2017. In January of 2018 she was awarded by three years postdoctoral fellowship of Basque Government, where the first two years (2018-2019) she was working at Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) under Stefano Passerini´s group and the third year (2020) she returns to CIC energiGUNE at Advanced Interfacial Analysis group headed by Dr. Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Márquez.

Scientific interests

  • Electrode – electrolyte interphase
  • Interphase studies by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for interphase and transport studies
  • Advanced electrolytes
  • Ionic – liquids
  • Material development for batteries
  • Structural characterization by ex-situ and in-situ techniques
  • Na-ion and Li-ion batteries

Scientific career

  • Inorganic chemistry (synthesis and preparation of materials for batteries)
  • Electrochemistry (In-situ and ex-situ characterisation of battery systems)
  • Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for battery materials, and its analysis by Boukamp software
  • Interphase analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Solid-state chemistry
  • Structural evolution of battery materials by X-ray and Neutron diffraction and its analysis by FullProfSuite software

Awards

  • Postdoctoral fellowship (Basque Government, 29/01/2018 – 28/01/2020)
  • PhD extraordinary prize (UPV/EHU Postgraduate Admission Committee, 02/07/2019)
  • PhD extraordinary prize (Basque Government, 07/11/2016)
  • Cum Laude, International PhD at UPV/EHU (Material Science and Technology, 19/10/2016)
  • Predoctoral fellowship (Basque Government, 01/01/2014 – 31/12/2016)
  • Grant for predoctoral stays EGONLABUR (Basque Government, 10/01/2016 – 10/04/2016)
  • Grant for “Synchrotron Radiation Summer School” course on Diamond Light Source synchrotron (Diamond Light Source, 26/09/2014)
  • Grant for “XII Escuela de Verano sobre el Método Rietveld” course (Jaume I University, 03/07/2013 – 06/07/2013)

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