Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Award 2011 Winner

Awarded for her internationally recognised research at the interface between energy and the environment. In particular for her outstanding contributions in carbon capture and storage.   

About the Winner

Professor Maroto-Valer has established an international research reputation at the interface between energy and the environment. Her team is developing novel chemical and engineering solutions to meet the worldwide strive for cost-effective and environmentally-friendly energy, with particular emphasis on carbon dioxide capture, transport, storage and utilization. 

She obtained a BSc with Honours (First Class) in Applied Chemistry in 1993 and then a PhD in 1997 at the University of Strathclyde. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Applied Energy Research (CAER) at the University of Kentucky in US, she moved to the Pennsylvania State University in US, where she worked as Research Fellow and from 2001 as Assistant Professor and became Program Coordinator for Sustainable Energy.  She joined the University of Nottingham as Reader in 2005 and within 3 years she was promoted to Professor in Energy Technologies.

Her outstanding contributions, publication record and service to the chemical sciences and engineering have been recognised with numerous international prizes and awards, including 2009 Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2005 US Department of Energy Award for Innovative Development, 1997 Ritchie Prize, 1996 Glenn Award- Fuel Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society and the 1993 ICI Chemical & Polymers Group Andersonian Centenary Prize.

She has over 250 publications, including editor of 3 books, and 2 patents  and holds leading positions in professional societies and  editorial boards, including FRSC, Chair of the RSC Energy Sector, Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the RCUK Energy Programme and of the UKERC Research Committee and Editor-in-Chief of Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology.

She is the Chief Scientific Officer of the National Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage, a joint partnership between the University of Notitngham and the British Geological Survey.  At the University of Nottingham, she is Director of the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS) and Head of the Energy and Sustainability Research Division at the Faculty of Engineering.