Esther Acha-Peña received her chemical engineering degree in 2006 and her Ph.D. degree in advanced materials engineering (international mention) from UPV/EHU in 2013, with a six-month pre-doctoral stay at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), The Netherlands, and two post-doctoral stays at the ECN (two months) and at the Norwegian Science and Technology University (NTNU), Norway (three months). She has been a lecturer with the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environment, UPV/EHU, since 2010, and a permanent lecturer since 2018. Her lines of research are focused on alternative fuels and energy by thermal treatment of biomass and industrial waste, among others.