Anna did her Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering at Universitat de Barcelona (UB), with the final year as Erasmus at Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), and her M.Sc. in Chemical and Process Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona. She did her Ph.D. on Materials Science and Technology back at UB, with three stays abroad at Yokohama National University (Japan), Université de Lorraine (France) and University of California, Santa Barbara (US).
During her Ph.D. she strarted teaching at University level (Chemical Engineering, Laboratory, Process Control...) and continued for one more year, while she also started working at Cetaqua (Water Technology Center) in the field of water and sludge treatment.
She then obtained a Juan de la Cierva-Formación fellowship and started her Postdoc at ICMAB, in the Group of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (http://departments.icmab.es/nn/) with Anna Roig. During that time she also did a Postgraduate Course in Science Communication.
Since April 2017 she is the Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB, changing her career path from research to communication, but never leaving science!
She is interested in all fields of science, but especially on nanoscience and materials science. Anna's aim is to bring the science and research from ICMAB to the world, by organizing seminars, outreach activities, workshops, and by taking care of the website, social networks and press.
Her last field of research was on the synthesis and characterization of inorganic nanoparticles (TiO2, Au, Ag...) and integration of these nanoparticles in bacterial cellulose. Hybrid nanocomposites, especially for energy and biomedical applications. Her last project was in collaboration with INTE-UPC about photocatalysis for water splitting and hydrogen production.
