Prof. Núria López obtained her BSC Chemistry (1995) and her Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, Spain (1999). Then she joined the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics led by Prof. Jens K. Nørskov (Denmark) as postdoctoral researcher. In 2005 she started her independent career at ICIQ. Her research group focuses on the study heterogeneous photo-electro-catalysis from a theoretical standpoint. In 2010 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2010) and then a ERC Proof-of-concept (2015) by the European Research Council (ERC). She was awarded a “Prize for Excellence” by the Real Sociedad Española de Química in 2015 and participated in the consortium that won the RSC’s 2022 John Jeyes Award for sustainability. She has collaborated with several industries in Europe to leverage atomistic modelling, participated in more than 10 EU projects, and served in several committees in the European Union, including the most important supercomputing initiatives in Europe (being Chair of PRACE‘s Steering Committee and INFRAG (EuroHPC-JU)).

Prof. López has an h impact of 85, has published over 300 published articles. She is a pioneer in the introduction of open data practices via ioChem-BD, the computational catalysis database developed at ICIQ.