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White Hydrogen: a goal to achieve?

Interview with Olga Guerrero

This October we continue to explore the pathways to a more sustainable energy future. This time we turn our attention to the capacity of white hydrogen. Helena Peñas, Head of Bioenergy at Norvento, interviews Olga Guerrero, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Malaga, who shares her in-depth knowledge and experience in the field of hydrogen and its impact on the energy transition.

Throughout the interview, Olga will highlight the latest research and developments in this area, its advantages in comparison to other renewable sources, and how this technology can play a key role to reduce carbon emissions. In addition, together they will explore the role that the existence of natural hydrogen deposits can play in climate change mitigation and the evolution of the energy industry.

Don’t lose this conversation between two experts working to transform the future of energy through sustainable and innovative solutions.

María Olga Guerrero Pérez

María Olga Guerrero Pérez began her scientific career in 1998, after completing her undergraduate studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She obtained a grant to carry out her doctoral thesis jointly at the company Repsol and at the Catalysis Institute, which was defended in June 2003, obtaining Cum Laude by Unanimity and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Afterwards, she enjoyed several competitive contracts/scholarships in different national and foreign centres. Finally, she joined the University of Malaga as Assistant Professor in 2008 and since 2020 she has been University Professor. Guerrero-Pérez held the position of Director of the International Projection Secretariat of the University of Malaga from 2016 to 2020, and from March 2020 to January 2024, she has served as Deputy Vice-Rector for Institutional Projects at the UMA.  She is the author of more than 100 publications in the most prestigious journals in environmental engineering, catalysis and materials (index h 31) and is in the World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists (U. Standford, October 2023), Physical Chemistry.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Catalysis Today’ of Elsevier, of the International Advisory Board of the ‘Group V symposia series’, was editor-in-chief of the Spanish Carbon Group Newsletter and has also participated as guest editor in nine volumes of the journal Catalysis Today. In addition, she has participated in numerous doctoral thesis tribunals both in Spain and abroad, as well as in competitions for access to the TU and CU corps of University and Scientists of OPIs. She has also participated in research project evaluation commissions for national (ANEP), regional (ACSUCyL), European (ERC Advanced Grants) and foreign agencies (governments of France, Belgium and Mexico), and in several ANECA expert panels involved in the renewal of accreditation of official university degrees.

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