CIC energiGUNE, a leading Basque research center in electrochemical energy storage and conversion and thermal energy storage and conversion, has incorporated Dr. and Ikerbasque Research Professor Max García-Melchor to its staff to lead the new "Atomistic and Molecular Modeling for Catalysis Group". With this incorporation and the start-up of the new research team, the Basque center takes an important step to deepen in key aspects such as the identification of new catalysts that allow the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels.
"With Max García-Melchor, we now have six Ikerbasque Research Professors at CIC energiGUNE, in addition to two other Ikerbasque Research Associates and one Ikerbasque Research Fellow. This, together with the presence of Michel Armand, recognized as the most important researcher in the State in the field of Energy according to Stanford University, gives a very clear idea of the attractiveness of our project, the scientific dimension of our team and, above all, of our ability to provide knowledge and solutions to our clients, of our capacity to provide knowledge and solutions to face society´s energy challenges", said Nuria Gisbert, Director General of CIC energiGUNE, who added her wish to "thank the Ikerbasque team and the Basque Government for their constant support and their commitment to scientific development in the Basque Country".
In this sense, the arrival of Dr. García-Melchor has led to the launch of the "Atomistic and Molecular Modeling for Catalysis Group", a new research team that will be transversal to the areas of electrochemical energy storage and conversion and thermal energy at CIC energiGUNE. "I am deeply grateful to Ikerbasque and CIC energiGUNE for this valuable opportunity to contribute to the advancement of the Basque Country in the development of sustainable technologies for the production of fuels and chemical compounds. I take on this new challenge with great enthusiasm and ambition, convinced that, together with my research group and my colleagues at CIC energiGUNE, we will be able to respond with scientific excellence. Our goal is to help position the Basque Country as a benchmark in the accelerated design of new catalysts for the conversion and storage of renewable energies," said the new researcher at the Basque center.
