Postdoctoral researcher Jaime S. Sánchez is joining the ECPU
The ECPU would like to welcome Dr. Jaime S. Sánchez to our team.
Dr. Jaime S. Sánchez is a chemical engineering graduate. He holds a PhD degree in the field of Electrochemistry and Materials Science by Autonoma University of Madrid (2019). His Thesis was entirely developed on the lab facilities of the Electrochemical Processes Unit at Imdea Energy, focused on the synthesis and investigation of graphene-based materials and their application in electrochemical energy storage devices. In this period, he enjoyed a research stay at the Fritz-Haber-Institute-Max Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany) studying the charge storage or catalysis mechanism of these materials, performing in-situ and operando experiments (e.g. X-ray absorption spectroscopy and XPS) at BESSY Synchrotron. After his PhD, he joined the 2D-Materials group of Vincenzo Palermo at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where he mainly developed composites for energy storage applications in the frame of one of the most important research initiatives in material science in Europe, the Graphene Flagship. He has been involved in several national and european research projects and he is author of 11 research articles included in SCI journals and more than 20 contributions to national and international scientific conferences. At Chalmers he had been also working on a project called "2D composites research at Chalmers" to bring a clear manufacturing/synthesis perspective into the research to scale solutions into future use in collaboration with companies such as Volvo or ABB, and he could start a new research line together with Prof. Leif Asp developing graphene-based cathodes for structural batteries, in order to increase energy storage capabilities in cars and airplanes, while maintaining a low vehicle weight.
Since January 2022, he is a postdoctoral researcher of the Electrochemical Processes Unit, leading the research line of inorganic materials for energy storage and conversion applications.