My name is Lluís Soler and I was born in Terrassa, Catalonia (Spain) in 1979. I am a PhD in chemistry and I have worked as a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) since October 2014, and as an adjunct lecturer of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) since September 2017. I am currently serving as Deputy Director of the Specific Center for Hydrogen Research (CER-H2) and one of the group leaders at the Center for Research in Multiscale Science and Engineering (CCEM)
In July 2019 I was granted as a Principal Investigator in the “Retos investigación 2018” call of the Spanish Ministry with 166.980€ (PHOXSOL project), and in September 2020 I was granted with a prestigious “Ramón y Cajal” research fellow in the field of Energy and Transport. I am currently co-PI of the project "Hydrogen energy technologies boosted by interface engineering of amorphous/crystalline catalysts (HYNTERCAT)" funded with 302,500€, and member of the consortium of the Doctoral Network Unite!Energy. I am currently group leader of the photocatalysis team in the ENCORE research group. I holded a “Beatriu de Pinós” (Marie Curie COFUND) postdoctoral grant from October 2014-September 2016 at the INTE-UPC. From June 2012-August 2013, I joined the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at the IFW Dresden, in Germany, in a postdoc position. In September 2013, our research group moved to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, where I continued my postdoctoral stay till September 2014. Previously, I was a postdoc researcher (2010-2012) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). I received my degree in Chemistry in 2002, my Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in 2004 and my PhD degree in 2010 from the UAB.