Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is currently the director of the Interface Science
Department as well as interims director of Inorganic Chemistry Department at
the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin (Germany). She began her academic career by
completing her MSc in Physics in Spain in 1998 and a PhD in Physics in Germany in
2001. Her postdoctoral research took her to the Department of Chemical
Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA). In 2004 she
joined the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida as
Assistant Professor becoming a full professor in 2012. In 2013, she moved back
to Germany and became a Chair professor of Solid State Physics at the Ruhr-University
Bochum. She then joined the FHI in 2017.
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya is the
author of 245 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters and 6 patents. She
has been supervising 74 postdoctoral fellows and 36 PhD students. She serves in
the editorial board of the Journal of Catalysis and the Chemical Reviews
journal. She is a member of the Academia Europaea as well as of the Germany
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Recently she received the Manchot
Research Professorship from TU Munich (2023), the 2022 Paul H. Emmet Award of
the North American Catalysis Society, the Röntgen Medal (2022), the Faraday
Medal from The Electrochemistry Division of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry
(2022), the AVS Fellow Award (2021) and the
International Society of Electrochemistry-Elsevier Prize for Experimental
Electrochemistry (2021).