Dr. Nerea Casado

 

Dr. Nerea Casado
Coordinator

Centro Joxe Mari Korta
Avenida de Tolosa, 72
20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain

email: nerea.casado@ehu.eus
Tel:+34 943 01 88 46

Education

Dr. Nerea Casado earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry (2012) and M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials (2013) from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. She was awarded with the Best Academic Record Award 2012 in Chemistry by Kutxa. In April 2017 she defended her PhD Thesis, entitled "Innovative Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) materials for energy storage" under the supervision of Prof. David Mecerreyes and in close collaboration with CIC EnergiGUNE center and Prof. Michel Armand. During her PhD, she spent 7 months on the group of Maria Forsyth at Deakin University (Australia) studying the electroactivity of polymers in ionic liquids and batteries.

Honors and awards

2020. UPV/EHU Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017. Best Poster Award in Power Our Future Conference
2014. Basque Government Predoctoral Fellowship
2012. Best Academic Record Award

Research

Since 2017, she works as post-doctoral researcher in the Innovative Polymers Group. Her current research is focused on the development of mixed ionic-electronic conducting polymers for energy storage and biomedical applications.


Batteries

Hydrogen Fuel cells and electrolysers

Publications