Javier Heras-Domingo

Originally from Barcelona, I studied chemistry (Mention in Materials Science) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona before doing my Ph.D. thesis in the Computational BioNanoCat laboratory supervised by Prof. Mariona Sodupe and Prof. Xavier Solans-Monfort. My Ph.D. thesis consisted in a comparison between Ruthenium oxide surfaces and nanoparticles in terms of their catalytic performance for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). During this period, I collaborated with Prof. Christophe Coperet at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), in a project related to a supported Iridium single-site catalyst (SAC) on ITO, in fulfillment of the Ph.D. international mention.

In February 2020, I joined Prof. Zachary Ulissi’s research group at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA) to work on multi-metallic oxides discovery for clean energy production based on Machine Learning and autonomous workflow engineering, in collaboration with FAIR team at Meta AI and Prof. Ted Sargent’s research group at the University of Toronto.

In January 2023, I joined Prof. Núria López’s research group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ).