Carlos Sotelo-Vázquez
Dr. Carlos Sotelo-Vazquez is an ITPS member since january 27, 2025. He is a materials scientist with over a decade of experience in the development of metal oxide-based photocatalysts for environmental applications. He currently holds a "César Nombela" Talent Attraction Fellowship at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), where his research is focused on the development of advanced photocatalytic materials for water and air purification.
He earned his PhD from University College London (UCL) through the European Commision FP7 project PCATDES, focusing on photocatalytic systems for water treatment in Southeast Asia. He continued at UCL as a postdoctoral researcher, contributing to high-impact projects funded by EPSRC and Innovative UK in collaboration with industrial partners such as Honda R&D, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Ilika plc, etc. His work during this period spanned energy materials, thin-film deposition, and environmental remediation technologies. Since joining URJC in 2020, he has pioneered the use of aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) for the scalable synthesis of photocatalytic coatings.
His research has been supported by different competitive grants, including the Got Energy Talent MSCA-COFUND, and two Talent Attraction fellowships from Comunidad de Madrid. His current project, funded under the "César Nombela" Program, explores bio-inspired photocatalysis for water and air purification.
He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communications, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, accumulating over 1,700 citations and an h-index of 19. He has presented his work in more than 50 international conferences, including two as invited speaker. In addition, he is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Solar Fuels Network, and regularly reviews for journals published by Elsevier, ACS, and RSC.
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