Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF (Norway), has a PhD (1999) in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her main research interest and expertise (more than 20 years) is electrochemistry in high temperature molten salts and ionic liquids, including electrowinning, electrorefining and electrodeposition of critical materials from both primary and secondary resources. She is the co-author of more than 50 peer reviewed papers in international journals, 1 Patent, and has co-supervised 7 PhD Theses and several MSc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).