OUR TEAM  

Team Work
makes
Dreams Work

It all started with a redox reaction and a piece of paper

Multidisciplinary dynamic team with combined expertise in the area of sustainable power sources

Meet the team

Juan Pablo Esquivel

Team Leader | Ikerbasque Research Associate


Juan Pablo is an Ikerbasque Research Associate at BCMaterials. He has been Tenured Scientist at the IMB-CNM (CSIC). He is also co-founder and Scientific Advisor of the spin-offs companies Fuelium & Sweanty. He has a PhD in Electronics Engineering from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, under a Marie Curie Fellowship. He has received several international distinctions for his work, such as the Catalonia Ecodesign Prize and the MIT TR35 Mexico award. He has authored more than 100 scientific contributions and is inventor in 13 patents.

Marina Navarro-Segarra

Post-doctoral researcher


PhD Electrochemistry | BSc Physics 

Carles Tortosa Valdés

Pre-doctoral researcher


MSc Renewable Materials Engineering | BSc Physics 

David Batet Palau

Pre-doctoral researcher


MSc Nanomaterials and Nanophysics |  BSc Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Mikel Undagoita Notario

Pre-doctoral researcher


MSc New Materials | BSc Chemistry

Andrea Ugalde Pallares

Pre-doctoral researcher


MSc Engineering for Environmental  management| BSc Chemical Engineering

Former members

Amaia Gómez Ruiz de Arbulo

Internship Student


BSc Chemistry

Sandra Fernández Garcia

Internship Student


BSc Chemical Engineering

Mikel González Devesa

Internship Student


BSc Chemical Engineering

Where we work

Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures

Edif. Martina Casiano, Pl. 3 Parque Científico UPV/EHU Barrio Sarriena, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia

Tlf: +34 946 12 88 11

Supported by a wide network of collaborators

Join our team!

We are open to host researchers and students in our group. Let us know if you would like to continue your career working with us. We can prepare public funding proposals together.