Professor Carlos Ponce De Leon Albarran

Professor Carlos Ponce De Leon Albarran has industrial experience in

• quality control
• data acquisition systems
• analytical chemistry
• recovery of precious metals
• fuel cell testing

His main areas of expertise are in electrochemical energy conversion and water treatment technology.

He has taught at 3 different universities during the last 25 years and is currently the coordinator of the MSc program in Sustainable Energy Technologies at the University of Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ.

He has developed strong collaborations with partners in electrochemical reactor modelling, decontamination of industrial effluents and metal-air batteries.

He has contributed to redox flow battery technology with full utility-scale mass transport characterization of cell stacks and improvements to several chemistries.

Over the last few years, he has worked on the use of 3D-printing as a fast-prototyping tool for electrochemical flow cells, aluminum -polymer and -oxygen batteries, and has been the principal investigator of projects funded by the European Commission.

Professor Ponce de Le¨®n is member of the RSC Electrochemistry Group and editor of the Electrochemistry newsletter.

He was chairman of Electrochem 2013 conference 2013 with 230 delegates and he has authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications and h-index 44 with 7445 citations according to Scopus.

He has directed over 30 MSc thesis and over 18 PhD thesis.