Directrice de Recherche CNRS since January 2017
Head of the "Nanoporous Materials for Energy and Environment" research group at CEMHTI CNRS UPR3079
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
(i) main fields: Energy and Environmental chemistry, materials science, adsorption
(ii) other fields: Chemical engineering, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry
HONOURS, AWARDS
2016 ERC-Consolidator Grant (H2020)
2008 L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowship Award in the programme, "For women in Science"
2008 Excellence Scientific Research Award University of Granada.
1997 Erasmus-Socrates Fellowship.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2013: Invited Researcher (Salvador de Madariaga), City College of New York, USA (3 months)
2010: Invited Researcher (Poste Rouge), Dpt. Carbone Ceramique, IS2M-CNRS, France (6 months)
2008-2009: Ramon y Cajal Researcher, Instituto Nacional del Carbón (INCAR-CSIC), Oviedo, Spain
2006-2007: Assistant Researcher, Instituto Nacional del Carbon INCAR-CSIC, Oviedo, Spain
2005-2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dpt. Energie Environnement, CRMD-CNRS, Orléans, France.
2004-2005: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dpt. Chemistry, City College of New York (CCNY), New York, USA.
2003-2004: Assistant Researcher, Instituto Nacional del Carbon INCAR-CSIC, Oviedo, Spain
Summary
Dr. Conchi Ania is Research Scientist of CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) in Oviedo (Spain) and Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Orléans (France). She received her PhD degree in Chemistry by Univ. of Oviedo (Spain) in 2003. After 3 years postdoctoral stays in France and USA, in 2007 she incorporated at CSIC (2009-2017 Tenured Scientist, 2018 Research Scientist). In 2017 she also joined CNRS as Research Director.
In 2008 she got the L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowship Award in the Programme "For women in Science" (Spain) and the Excellence Scientific Research Award by Univ. Granada (Spain). In 2016 she got an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council, funded with 2M to develop research activities towards "Integrating photochemistry in nanoconfined carbon-based porous materials in technological processes".
She has a long-standing interest and a widely recognized experience on research activities related to nanoporous materials with tailored surface chemistry and architectures as structural and functional solids for high-tech applications, covering energy storage and environmental protection. Current research interests focus on the use of carbon materials as catalysts, adsorbents and electrodes, and particularly on photochemistry of carbon materials in various fields (synthesis, catalysis, sensing, electrochemistry).
As for scientific contributions, she has a large experience on coordinating (20) and participating (14) in R&D projects and industrial contracts (10). She has authored 7 book chapters, supervised 6 PhD thesis, published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 3500 citations and an H-index of 34. She is also coinventor of a patent filed for 2 years by SIAD (Italy), on the preparation of porous materials for the separation of gases of strategic impact.
Publication list (not only @CEMHTI)
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Debmalya Banerjee, Gadamsetty Jeevana Lakshmi Kumar, Deblu Sahu, Souvadra Das, Sarada Prasanna Mallick, Gujjala Lohit Kumar Srinivas, Bala Chakravarthy Neelapu, Conchi O.Ania, Arfat Anis, Kunal Pal
"Activated carbon as a novel crystal habit modifier for oleogels: A study on curcumin encapsulation and diffusion"
Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
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F.Olivier, S.Schaefer, K.Maiga, M.Roulet, I.Laidin, C.O.Ania, B.Cagnon
"Understanding the role of pollutant confinement during the thermal regeneration of activated carbons"
Carbon
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Andrea S.Gonzalez-Vera, Carlos A.Pineda-Arellano, Armando Ramírez-Monroy, J.Matos, Luis F.Chazaro-Ruiz, J.Rene Rangel-Mendez, Conchi O.Ania
"Influence of the sequential purification of biomass-derived carbon dots on their colloidal and optical properties"
Carbon Trends
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Corneliu S.Stan, Adina Coroaba, Conchi O.Ania, Cristina Albu, Marcel Popa
"Markedly Enhanced Photoluminescence of Carbon Dots Dispersed in Deuterium Oxide"
Journal of Carbon Research
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Diana M.Fernandes, Victor K.Abdelkader-Fernandez, Ali Fayad, Conchi O.Ania, Fabiano R.Praxedes, Silvania Lanfredi, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Elena Rodríguez-Aguado, Juan C.Hernández-Garrido, Juan J.Quintana-González, Po S.Poon, Juan Matos
"Ni and Co-based bifunctional electrocatalysts supported on TiO2@C for oxygen evolution and reduction reactions"
Electrochimica Acta
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Wisly Fidel, Guido Perrin, Ikram Anefnaf, Richard K Koech, Dieuseul Prédélus, Nicole Doumit, Jacques Botsoa, Conchi O.Ania, Esidor Ntsoenzok
"Numerical Analysis on the Use of Carbon Nanostructures as Interlayers to Perovskite Solar Cells Using SCAPS-1D"
Advanced Theory and Simulation
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Corneliu S.Stan, Noumane Elouakassi, Cristina Albu, Conchi O.Ania, Adina Coroaba, Laura E.Ursu, Marcel Popa, Hamid Kaddami, Abdemaji Almaggoussi
"Photoluminescence of Argan-Waste-Derived Carbon Nanodots Embedded in Polymer Matrices"
Nanomaterials
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Paula Muñoz-Flores, Po S.Poon, Catherine Sepulveda, Conchi O.Ania, Juan Matos
"Photocatalytic Performance of Carbon-Containing CuMo-Based Catalysts under Sunlight Illumination"
Catalysts
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Paula Muñoz-Flores, Po S.Poon, Conchi O.Ania, Juan Matos
"Performance of a C-containing Cu-based photocatalyst for the degradation of tartrazine: Comparison of performance in a slurry and CPC photoreactor under artificial and natural solar light"
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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Verónica Poza-Nogueiras, Alicia Gomis-Berenguer, Marta Pazos, Angeles Sanroman, Conchi O.Ania
"Exploring the use of carbon materials as cathodes in electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of antibiotics"
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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