Dr. Silvia Román currently works as full time professor in the Area of Applied Physics at the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Extremadura. She keeps active collaboration with different institutions such as the University of de Évora (Portugal), Max Plank Institute (Postdam, Alemania), Imperial College (Londres, UK), Buenos Aires University (Argentina), Santiago de Chile University (Chile), and Nevada University (USA). Her research is focused on the use of wastes for energy via thermochemical processes (focus on HTC, but also works on combustion, gasification, or pyrolysis) as well as the production of porous materials for several applications.