Biography

Cleis holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. She completed her postgraduate studies at Autonoma University of Madrid doing the Master in Renewable Energy and Fuels for the Future. She performed her PhD studies in the Electrochemical Processes Unit at Imdea Energy Institute in collaboration with Autonoma University of Madrid.During the PhD she has specialized in an electrochemical water treatment process named Capacitive Deionization (CDI). She had gained experience in electrode’ materials development and their textural and electrochemical characterization. Complementary, she had standing experience in dealing with cells and filter press designs, construction and the scaling up of the system as well as testing different operational modes applied to deionization and energy storage. She had also spent a period as visiting researcher in Fraunhofer Chile Research Center and Pontificia Catolica University in Santiago de Chile where she studied the Cu2+ removal from real mining drainage by CDI. She got the PhD degree in Electrochemistry from Autonoma University of Madrid in September 2017.Over her career in academia, she has been participating in two R&D projects in collaboration with companies such as ISOLUX and GS INIMA. She has collaborated in the supervision of two master thesis and several undergraduate internships. In the last four years, her work has led to 3 scientific publications (4 more pending the outcome of the evaluation), a national patent as well as three oral and a poster communications in international conferences.Since September 2017, she joins Multifunctional Nanocomposite Group as a postdoctoral research associate at IMDEA Materials Institute working in the development of advanced CNTs materials for electrochemical-based desalination applications.