I initiated my research career in 2000 when I was awarded publicly funded Collaboration and Intercampus fellowships from the Spanish Government. I graduated in Chemistry (University of Granada, Spain) in 2001 and earned my PhD in Catalysis and Materials Science (University of Alicante, Spain) in 2006. In 2007, I moved to Madrid for a post-doc position at the Spanish National Council of Research (CSIC, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano). In 2008, I was awarded a 2 years Fulbright-MEC fellowship to conduct studies on catalytic biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals in Professor James Dumesic’s research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). In 2011, I obtained a postdoctoral position at the University of Córdoba to lead the biomass conversion unit within the “Nanoscale Chemistry and Biomass Waste Valorization Group”. In October 2012, I was offered a Senior Researcher position at Abengoa Research, the R&D division of the multinational company Abengoa. During this period, I developed technologies for the production of advanced biofuels via catalytic conversion of biomass, thermochemical energy storage for CSP plants, and hydrogen-related devices for the Bioenergy, Solar and Hydrogen business units (some of them were patented). In 2017, I was awarded a Ramón and Cajal fellowship (ranked number 2 in Chemical Technology) from the Spanish Government to develop my own research at University Loyola