Bio
Dr. Silvia Villar-Rodil is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR)), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain's largest research institution. She entered the field of nanomaterials when the field of two-dimensional (2D) materials research emerged after graphene was first isolated. In fact, her research team was a pioneer in her country in experimental work with graphene. Her current research focuses on the development of scalable methods for the preparation and processing of graphene and other 2D materials, investigating their potential in environmental and energy storage applications. She is currently the editor-in-chief of 2D and Carbon Nanomaterials section in Nanomaterials journal.

Bio
Dr. Victoria García Rocha is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR-CSIC), in parallel she is Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University (UK) where she spent four years as Lecturer and Researcher in the School of Engineering and she currently supervises 3 PhD students. Dr Rocha has extensive national and international experience and she has worked both in industry and in academia, at different United Kingdom Universities, such as the Universities of Bath and Cardiff and the Imperial College (London). Dr Rocha´s research has been devoted to advance the fields of carbon-based materials, carbon-ceramics composites and ceramic composites, with especial focus on disclosing the relationship between the chemical structure and bulk properties of carbon-based materials, advanced ceramics and composites. She has worked on synthesis, scale up and processing technologies with the aim of finding new composite materials for different applications, primarily energy devices and advanced structural ceramics. She has developed new petroleum binders for magnesia-carbon refractories, sol-gel synthesis, processing and sintering of a wide variety of ceramic nanoparticles and the fabrication of advanced structural composites by spark plasma sintering. Lately, Dr Rocha focuses her materials processing expertise on tailoring carbon and catalyst precursors to enable highly dispersed sustainable electrocatalysts for water splitting or development highly conductive carbon-based electrodes by direct ink writing (3D printing) or freeze casting for redox flow batteries and novel electrolysers.

Bio
Dr. José María Munuera Fernández is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR-CSIC) as part of the MOMENTUM program. He holds a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Oviedo (2019). His research focuses on two-dimensional (2D) materials, particularly those produced by electrochemical exfoliation, with applications in energy storage, catalysis, and printed electronic devices. He carried out postdoctoral fellowships with renowned groups, including Professor Casiraghi at the University of Manchester and Professor Jonathan Coleman at Trinity College Dublin, where he worked on the development of 2D material preparation processes and their applications in biomedical and printed devices, before joining INCAR-CSIC in 2024 to work on the development of aqueous zinc batteries. Dr. Munuera has published 36 high-impact articles and received over 1,500 citations.