Simona Renda is a postdoctoral researcher, currently under the Juan de la Cierva competitive program (grant no. JDC2023-052947-I funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FSE+). She has been a member of the consolidated Catalysis and Reactor Engineering Group (CREG https://creg.i3a.es/) of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) since 2023, and of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) since 2025. She holds a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Salerno (Italy), awarded with honours. Her research focuses on catalysis and reactor engineering for environmental applications, including but not limited to carbon capture and utilization, Claus tail gas treatment, and water desalination via membrane distillation. She has experience in both experimental work and CFD modelling, and her projects combine academic research with industrial collaboration. She participated in more than 10 research and technological transfer projects, including two European H2020 projects, and has published more than 30 scientific papers in SCI-indexed journals, with more than 800 citations and an h-index of 13 (data according to Scopus, February 2026).