Decarbonisation of the electricity system has been identified as one of the main objectives to reduce the effects of climate change. In parallel, the latest trends in the industrial sector […]
After three intense years of ground-breaking research, the EU research project NanoBat ends with revolutionary solutions for battery production in Europe and beyond. The consortium of 13 academic and industrial […]
Over the last decade, the process of decarbonisation of the energy system has intensified. Climate change and the need to reduce CO₂ emissions, on the one hand, and the development […]
IMDEA Energy participated in the City and Science Biennial held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid from 22 to 25 February. Researchers from the Biotechnological Processes and Thermochemical […]
The IMDEA Energy Institute held three industrial sessions within the framework of the International Energy and Environment Fair GENERA 2023 on February 21st, with the participation of prominent speakers from […]
Africa has a unique potential to exploit low cost renewable energy to produce Green hydrogen for domestic and external markets. Green Hydrogen could become indeed the booster of a sustainable […]
IMDEA Energy organizes three technical sessions and a visit within the framework of the International Energy and Environment Fair GENERA 2023 that will be held at Ifema in Madrid from […]
IMDEA Energy is one of the host institutions of the #Energy4Future programme, coordinated by the Iberdrola Foundation for the incorporation of postdoctoral researchers over two years. Research projects will be […]
Countries and organisations around the world are looking for new ways to combat climate change. Renewable energy sources could be the answer, but due to their intermittent nature they lack […]
IMDEA Energía is part of the European SHARP-sCO2 consortium, which aims to develop a new generation of highly efficient and flexible solar thermal power plants. SHARP-sCO2 focuses on demonstrating the […]
IMDEA Energy Foundation has obtained €1,523,837 in funding in the final resolution of the call for Strategic Projects Oriented towards Ecological Transition and Digital Transition from the Spanish Ministry of […]
Lithium-ion batteries are known to be very versatile and attractive as an energy storage system in the emerging electric mobility sector. This is mainly due to their ability to store […]
With SFERA-III, benefit from free access to top research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power across Europe! The 5th SFERA-III access campaign has been launched on 1st December 2022. This call for projects provides free […]
Institute IMDEA Energy proposes a paid research internship programme for highly motivated master’s students to get started in research and learn from a multidisciplinary team of internationally renowned researchers. The […]
The call for applications for INPhINIT PhD scholarships from la Caixa in its two modalities (Incoming/Retaining) has been published. For the Incoming modality, IMDEA Energía has published 10 places which […]
More than 120 students from Vocational Training. Secondary and Baccalaureate students took part in IMDEA Energía’s activities on the occasion of Science and Innovation Week 2022. Over four days (15, […]
The debates of the Round Table “New energy models and optimization of key operations: Trends, Opportunities and Innovation” that will be held in the Technology Auditorium of the “Smart Energy […]
Stanford University has published the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022, a global ranking of the world’s most cited scientists in various disciplines. This ranking, considered one of the most prestigious […]
Dr Freddy Oropeza, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow and senior assistant researcher at the photoactivated process unit, has been awarded the highly prestigious Ramón y Cajal (RyC) fellowship by the Spanish Government. […]
Once again, IMDEA Energy Institute is participating in the Madrid Science and Innovation Week, an event for scientific dissemination and citizen participation that aims to attract new audiences, involve new […]
The 4th SFERA-III Training Course for Industry will be organised by ENEA from 7 to 11 November 2022 at ENEA Casaccia Research Center in Italy. This course is designed for engineers, researchers and representatives from European […]
IMDEA Energy is developing new materials for a sustainable future. This is the case of Nanostructured Conjugated Porous Polymers, nanoCPP, protected by two patents, one of which is pending in […]
On the closing day of the SolarPACES 2022 Conference, SolarPACES Chairman Gilles Flamant presented the award to Dr. Christoph Falter, now at Synhelion, on behalf of Bauhaus-Luftfahrt, Dr. Johannes Grobbel, […]
The most relevant patents and technologies outcome of the research work of IMDEA Energy will be presented at Patents for innovation, P4i,event that will be held in La Nave, Madrid, […]
Agrochemicals, mainly fertilizers and pesticides, are fundamental compounds in agriculture, as without them it would be impossible to meet the enormous demand for food in today’s world. Although the use […]
On September 29th, 2022, the IMDEA Energy Institute organized Workshop “Urban grids and microgrids” within the framework of Promint-CM R&D project. Outstanding speakers from both academic and business backgrounds, representing […]
On September 19th, 2022, the IMDEA Energy Institute hold the Session “Relationship between scientists and investors” aimed at facilitating the technological entrepreneurship of researchers and bringing the results of research […]
On 27th September, IMDEA Energy will be holding the 3nd edition of our annual workshop for senior researchers. The event will take place in person in the auditorium. DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE
Five IMDEA institutes are, as of September 1, 2022, collaborating institutions in the Spanish edition of The Conversation. Researchers from five of IMDEA’s centers (Water, Materials, Energy, Software and Food) […]
On November 16th and 17th, the ‘Smart Energy & Expo (SEC) 2022’ will be held at the North Convention Center of IFEMA. Madrid, organized by the enerTIC Platform. The IMDEA Energy Institute […]
The public defense of Ioan-Robert Istrate’s doctoral thesis, developed at IMDEA Energía’s Systems Analysis Unit and directed by Javier Dufour and José Luis Gálvez, will take place on September 5th […]
Once again this year, IMDEA Energía is participating in the European Researchers’ Night, with a series of activities aimed at families and children between 5 and 10 years old, which […]
On September 29th, the IMDEA Energy Auditorium will host the workshop ‘Urban grids and microgrids’, a day in which the main challenges of the development of urban electricity grids and […]
Developing solar technologies for producing carbon-neutral aviation fuels has become a global energy challenge, but their readiness level has largely been limited to laboratory-scale studies. Here we report on the […]
Oleochemicals are chemical compounds derived from lipids that can be used as feedstock and platform molecules in a wide variety of industries. In the transportation sector, for example, biodiesel produced […]
IMDEA Energy has organized in Toledo the 8th International Workshop Layered Materials, from July 10 to 13. The present workshop will focus on the smart design of layered materials including […]
On July 4, 2022 IMDEA Energy hosted the meeting of the “Collaboration with Companies and Technology Transfer” team of the IMDEA Institutes network (Water, Food, Energy, Materials, Nanoscience, Networks and […]
The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has published a ranking of the 5,000 most outstanding women scientists researching in Spanish organisations, classified according to the indicators of their public […]
On Thursday 16 June, the City of Móstoles awards ceremony, organised by the town council, was held at the El Bosque Theatre-Auditorium. David Serrano, Director, Manuel Romero, Deputy Director and […]
IMDEA Energy has participated once again in the Energy and Environment Fair Genera 2022, held at IFEMA (Madrid). On 14 June, the conference ‘Solar heat generation for industrial processes’ was organised, with […]
Institute IMDEA Energía will be present next 14th and 16th of June at the International Energy and Environment Trade Fair GENERA in the pavilion FORO GENERA SOLAR 10B41. GET YOUR PASS 14th June […]
Under the umbrella of the SUNERGY pan-European initiative, the newly funded SUNER-C programme will strengthen the solar fuels and chemicals community within Europe. To mitigate climate change, our society must […]
IMDEA Energy Institute is looking for talented postdoctoral researchers to apply for Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01). Promising candidates will be supported and guided in preparation of his/her application with […]
Imdea Energy hosted the Symposium on Materials for Emerging Energy Technologies on 19 and 20 May. The aim of this meeting was to provide an overview of the design and synthesis of […]
Battery technologies currently considered state-of-the-art suffer from several severe downsides in sustainability, recyclability and energy efficiency. The ambitious MeBattery project strives to lay the foundations of a next-generation battery technology […]
IMDEA Energy launches the second call for proposals to host distinguished Principal Investigators and Senior Researchers that would like to perform a research stay at IMDEA Energy, within the framework of the […]
Dentro de la problemática actual de la gestión de los residuos plásticos, los procedentes de equipos eléctricos y electrónicos se están convirtiendo en uno de los temas candentes de la […]
Institute IMDEA Energy proposes a research internship programme for highly motivated master’s students to get started in research and learn from a multidisciplinary team of internationally renowned researchers. A total […]
Power grids are complex and elaborate physical systems. The ability of maintaining all system variables, like voltages and currents, within their acceptable ranges is usually referred to as power grid […]
Félix Marín and Patricia Pizarro, Head of Technology Transfer and Senior Researcher at IMDEA Energy talk in an interview in the framework of the CS Track Project about citizen participation in […]
The 11th “Madrid is Science” Fair, organised by the Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d, has registered a number of visitors in excess of 20,000 people, thus surpassing the number of […]
The public defense of the doctoral thesis of Mª Teresa Páez Viñas, developed at the Electrochemical Processes Unit of IMDEA Energía, entitled “High energy density flow batteries based on redox […]
Institute IMDEA Energy has reached 1000 publications in the SCOPUS database, with a total of 162 registered authors. Of the total number of publications, 425 belong to the ‘Energy’ branch, 350 to […]
In 2020 Institute IMDEA Energy obtained accreditation as a “María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence” granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the State Research Agency for the period […]
The growing global demand for energy is contributing to a relentless increase in carbon dioxide emissions. Finding economical and fossil-free ways to supply energy has become one of the major […]
The water-energy nexus is one of the topics that has gained prominence in the last decade. Recently, the scope of this term has been extended beyond production to the storage […]
Renewable hydrogen is often regarded as one of the most promising decarbonisation solutions. In fact, the European Union is actively promoting the creation of a hydrogen economy. Within this context, […]
The generation of green fuels such as hydrogen is nowadays a fundamental research topic associated with the growing energy demand. Photocatalysis, a photochemical reaction that converts solar energy into chemical […]
In the transportation sector, biofuels have driven the transition from an oil-dependent model towards a renewable scenario. Among biofuels, there are lipid-derived fuels like biodiesel based on vegetable oils. To […]
The European Commission has awarded IMDEA Energy the Seal of Excellence in Human Resources for Research-HRS4R, an accreditation that distinguishes the centre’s work in adopting good practice in the recruitment […]
Institute IMDEA Energy, together with Bauhaus Luftfahrt e. V. and ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Energy Globe World Award 2021 for its participation in the SUNlight-to-LIQUID project: Integrated solarthermochemical […]
Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of porous materials with fascinating applications in sensing, energy storage and catalysis. In the current work*, the active site of a palladium-loaded […]
