

Vanesa Muñoz-Perales
Ph.D.
I am a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in the Electrochemical Energy Lab (Prof. Yang Shao-Horn) and The Johnson's group (Prof. Jeremiah A. Johnson). My research focuses on the accelerated discovery of new electrolytes for beyond-lithium batteries using AI and high-throughput experimentation. I investigate formulations for higher ion transport in liquid, polymer and gel-based energy materials. During my PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (advisor Prof. Marcos Vera and in collaboration with Antoni Forner-Cuenca (EMS, TUe)), I advanced the field of electrochemical flow reactors through the improvement of charge/mass transport by engineering alternative flow cell architectures and porous electrode microstructures. Right after, I worked on membraneless microfluidic redox flow batteries using new electrolyte concepts under the advise of Dr. Rebeca Marcilla in the Electrochemical Processes Unit, IMDEA Energy.