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 made secondments on the group of Maria Forsyth at Deakin University (Australia) studying the electroactivity of polymers in ionic liquids and batteries.

Honors and awards

2024. ISE Prize in Electrochemical Material Science
2022. Ikerbasque Research Fellow
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 September 2022, she is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at POLYMAT. She has extended experience in the synthesis and characterization of functional polymers including mixed ionic and electronic conducting polymers, redox polymers and ionic compounds for energy storage and bioelectronic applications.
Today, her research line at POLYMAT focuses on the development of new polymeric materials for hydrogen technologies, from green hydrogen production to proton exchange and anion-exchange membrane fuel-cells.

Batteries

Hydrogen Fuel cells and electrolysers

Publications