The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is a public, dynamic and innovative academic institution that maintains strong links with the social environment helping students to reach out excellence. This is reflected in the UPV's position in the Shanghai Ranking, listed among the top 400 in the world in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. FOTOHET is a research group that belongs to UPV and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ-CISC), and it is located in Valencia, Spain. FOTOHET group is leaded by Hermenegildo García, full Professor at the Instituto de Tecnología Química of the Technical University of Valencia and has been working in the field of heterogeneous catalysis with porous solids as well as in the photocatalytic production of solar fuels having published over 900 articles (H index 129 GS). Prof. Garcia is Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Bucharest, Spanish National Research award (2021), Janssen-Cilag award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2011), Jaume I prize for Novel Technologies (2016) and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Natural Sciences. The research group has participated in more than 50 R&D projects related to catalysis and photocatalysis; and it is formed by national and international researchers specialized in the preparation of new catalysts based on metal oxides, MOFs, COFs and graphitic type materials among others and applied in several photocatalytic, thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic reactions.
Emanuela Accardo obtained her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies in 2022, conducting a brief research on colloidal CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles. Additionally, from 2020 Emanuela is also a student of IANUA High School of University of Genoa in Sciences and Technologies of sustainability receiving a first-level diploma in 2023. At the present, she is finishing her Master degree at the University of Genoa in Solid-state chemistry applied to materials and energy. Since 2024, thanks to Erasmus fellowship, she is carrying out her Master's project on photocatalysts for N₂ fixation in the Hermenegildo Garcia's group at the Technical University of Valencia. Finally, expected starting date of Emanuela’s contract related to DAM4CO₂ project will be June.
Arturo Sanz Marco was born in Valencia in 1993. After completing his Bachelor's degree in Energy Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 2015, he continued his scientific training by earning a Master's degree in Materials Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Following a brief collaboration at the Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de los Materiales de la Universidad de Valencia, he pursued his PhD studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, developing photocatalytic materials for CO₂ hydrogenation within the Nanofilms And Particles (NFP) group, part of the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA). After defending his thesis in early 2024, he took part for a year in the BONIFACE project, developing solutions to integrate perovskite-based solar cells into ceramic materials for construction. He has recently joined the team at the Instituto de Tecnología Química as part of the DAM4CO2 project. His research focuses on environmental photocatalysis, electronic physics, and the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials.