SUSANA TRASOBARES
| Name | SUSANA TRASOBARES |
| Work Groups |
Work Group 1 - Synthesis Work Group 2 - Characterisation |
| Laboratory | Material Science Metallurgical Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry |
| Organisation | Universidad de Cadiz |
| Website | http://www.uca.es/tem-uca |
| Areas of Research | Nanoparticle containing materials, mainly in applications related to Heterogeneous Environmental Catalysis, semiconducting materials and devices and metallic materials. |
| Research Keywords | Transmission Electron Microscopy, Catalyst, Electron Energy Loss, Characterization, Nanoparticles |
| Areas of Future Interest | Nanomaterials with biochemical applications |
Brief CV
Researcher in Materials Science "Materials Characterization at the atomic and nanometer Scale" at Cadiz University, Spain. She holds a PhD in Material Science (Université Paris Sud, 2001). The experience acquired on the different international laboratories (H.W. Kroto Group, Sussex University-UK, C.Colliex group at Université Paris Sud-France, P.M. Ajayan Group, Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute and Electron Microscopy Division at Argonne National Lab USA, Electron Microscopy Division @ Minatec at CEA Grenoble) has provided her a strong background on advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques and their application on nanostructures as nanocrystalline diamond, nanotubes, hetereogeneous catalysts etc. She is part of the EQnm Group, which directs its effors to push and exploit Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques as tools in Materials Chemistry. In particular, the HREM expertise, as developed in Cadiz, relies on modern transmission electron microscopy equipment for the acquisition of high resolution images operated in combination with the use of image simulation (EMS) and structural model building softwares (RODHIUS program developed at University of Cadiz) for a quantitative interpretation of the image contrasts. HREM imaging capabilities are combined with HAADF imaging and spectroscopy techniques (EDS, EELS) to follow the morphology, structure and chemistry of catalysts at the atomic scale. The combination of the EM techniques (HREM, HAADF, EDS, EELS) available at the Electron Microscopy Facility (equipped with JEOL 2010F, JEOL 2011 TEM microscopes and SIRION and QUANTA FEI scanning microscopes) with the wide variety of textural, chemical characterization techniques and catalytic activity evaluation setups present in the laboratory has provided the UCA team a strong background on hetereogeneous catalysis. In particular, they have combined chemical and structural characterization with catalytic essays to evaluate the metal-support interaction and redox properties of systems made of noble metal nanoparticles dispersed on variety of mixed oxides.
She is part of the ESTEEM project http://esteem.ua.ac.be/ and coordinates several bilateral projects between Cadiz University and other European Countries as France, Poland and Greece. As part of the EQnm Team she has organized and participates in several Workshops dedicated to Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques; TEM-UCA Workshops. www.uca.es/tem-uca
She is a member of the ES4FUN Innovation Platform. ES4FUN is a science communication project constituted by University Researchers, Lectures and Students as well as Students from different High Schools located at the Andalusia Region in Spain. The main objective of the Innovation Platform is to achieve a perfect environment for a transversal uses of knowledge to create and organise different Science Communication Activities. These activities are based in a methodology which starts from the identification of a relevant universal scientific concept which is further developed in the form of a social game with the aim of achieving knowledge dissemination from the participant experience centred on the concept to be spread. www.uca.es/es4fun