Prof. Dr. Francisco Montilla is a Full Professor at Universidad de Alicante. He received a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Alicante in 1997. He joined the group in 1999, thanks to a grant assigned to a European research project. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. with a work focused on the synthesis of DSA electrodes for wastewater treatment. In 2004 he moved as a postdoctoral fellow to the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Miguel Hernandez University. In 2007 he reincorporated to the Group of Electrocatalysis and Polymer Electrochemistry as a Ramon y Cajal Fellow. He mainly works in the laboratories of Prof. Comninellis (Lausanne, Switzerland), Prof. De Battisti (Ferrara, Italy) and Prof. Ifor Samuel (St Andrews, UK).