María José Valero Romero

María Jose Valero Romero obtained her MsC in Chemical Engineering in 2009 at the University of Malaga and her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the same university in 2015, with the thesis entitled “Carbon-based catalysts for oxidation and alcohol dehydration reactions”. During her Phd studies, she did two short research stays (in 2012 and 2014) at the Catalysis Engineering (CE) group at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), working on the research project of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. In 2015, she joined back at CE group as a postdoctoral researcher, firstly with a private contract financed by Shell Global Solutions (Towards Heterogeneous Hydroformylation Catalysts) and later within an European project (EU Horizon 2020) entitled “Adaptable Reactors for Resource- and Energy-Efficient Methane Valorisation”, ADREM. In May 2018, she came back as a postdoctoral researcher at TERMA group with a research award granted by UMA (I Plan Propio).

María José’s research interests fall at the interphase of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Materials Science, including the development of carbon-based materials and composites (activated carbons, electrospun fibers, MOFs and zeolites). Applications comprise alcohol dehydration-dehydrogenation reactions, partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, Hydroformylation of alkenes, Fischer Tropsch Synthesis, Methane Dehydroaromatization and photo-catalysis.