MARÍA SÁNCHEZ

Dr. María Sánchez has been a member of ITPS since its creation. She is a Full Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), where she obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science. She is co-leader of the High-Performance Research Group "Nano and Multifunctional Composites for Advanced Technologies" (AdvNanoComp), recognized as a high-output research group at URJC.

Her research focuses on the development of multifunctional polymer-matrix composite materials, with applications in human motion and biopotential sensing, structural health monitoring, and flexible and structural supercapacitors and batteries. She also conducts research on brazed joints for components of the future DEMO fusion reactor.
She has authored more than 125 publications in high-impact international journals in the fields of Materials Science, Composite Materials, and Fusion Energy, accumulating over 4,000 citations and an h-index of 32 (Scopus). She has participated in more than 100 international scientific conferences, with numerous oral presentations, and is the holder of four patents.

She has served as Principal Investigator of national and international research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union through the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. Notable projects include MULTIFUNC-EVs (PID2019-107874RB-I00), MULTISENS (PID2022-136636OB-I00), and the international EUROfusion projects (Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No. 633053; Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101052200).