Prof. Dr. Jesús Santamaría, is the Vice-Director of the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), Samca Professor of Nanotechnology and Editor of the Materials Synthesis section of the Chemical Engineering Journal (I.F. 6.3). His group Nanostructured Films and Particles (NFP) is now among the leading European groups in advanced Reactor Engineering and has made pioneering contributions in the fields of membrane reactors, zeolite membranes, microreactors, microwave and light-assisted catalytic reactors and process safety, including nano-safety aspects. His group is currently involved in the development of novel reactor-catalyst configurations taking advantage of the selective and direct heating of different catalytic beds that are susceptible to different electromagnetic sources such as lasers or microwaves.

Prof. Santamaría has been acknowledged by a number of awards and other forms of recognition. Also, he is a frequently invited speaker in international conferences (Plenary or Keynote speaker in 68 scientific meetings).  He has taken part in 91 research projects, in most of them as P.I. Of these projects 18 (20%) have been EU-funded, including two ERC Advanced Grants (HECTOR, 2011-16 and CADENCE, 2017-22). From the results of these projects he has published 302 peer-reviewed manuscripts, filed 24 patents and delivered over 400 presentations at scientific meetings. His current Hirsch index number is h=45 (ISI-WOK) or 54 (Google Scholar).