Chemical Technologies in the Energy Transition

About

Dr. White holds a doctorate from University of York (UK) concerning the development of porous polysaccharide-derived materials carbonaceous derivatives and the associated Spin-off company Starbon Technologies® Ltd. He worked previously at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces the Technische Universität Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. Between 2015 and 2019 Dr. White led the R&D group Sustainable Catalytic Materials at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Freiburg Germany) as financed through a Fraunhofer Attract award. In 2017 he was awarded the Young Researcher Award by the Global Green Chemistry Centres Network. Since 2018 he sits on the advisory board of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. He is currently working at TNO as a senior scientist with R&D focused on catalysis electrons to fuels photons to fuels materials and sustainable chemistry. His R&D interests relate to catalytic material/process design and evaluation synthetic fuels/platform molecules and CO2/biomass conversion with the aim to support the elaboration of renewable energy driven Power-to-X schemes (where X = chemicals intermediates materials etc.). Dr. Figueiredo is an assistant professor in electrochemistry at the TU/e where her research is devoted to electrocatalysis and electro(catalytic)synthesis for sustainable processes and production of high value chemicals like fuels and organic molecules from waste substrates as for example carbon dioxide and biomass. The principle aim of her groups R&D is to understand develop and optimise electrochemical reactions under practical relevant conditions in order to give a step further on the usage of electrochemistry at industrial scale. Dr. Figueiredo studied chemistry at Porto University (Portugal) where she obtained her MSc degree in 2008. From 2009 to 2012 she completed her PhD in electrocatalysis (topic: reduction of nitrogen containing compounds) under the supervision of Prof. J. Feliu. Following postdoctoral positions at different Universities (Kallio Group Aalto University (FIN); Koper Group Leiden University (NL); Rosmeisl and Escribano Groups University of Copenhagen (DK)) Prof. Figueiredo worked as a Jr Scientist at Avantium (Amsterdam NL) on CO2 electrochemical conversion. Since April 2019 she has held the position of assistant professor at the Inorganic Materials Chemistry research group at TU/e.