Ph.D. in Ingegneria Chimica , 21st cycle (2006-2008)
Ph.D. obtained in 2009
Dissertation:
Desulfurization Processes for Fuel Cell Systems
Tutors:
Guido SaraccoProfile
Research interests
Biography
Simelys Hernández got the degree in Chemical Engineering, with highest honors (Lode) at both Politecnico di Torino (Polito, Turin, Italy) and at Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) in 2004 and completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Polito in November 2009. She has been Assistant Professor (RTD-B) of the courses of Catalysis for the Energy and the Environment, Industrial Chemistry, Green Chemistry Products and Processes, and Photo-Electro-Catalytic Technologies for a Sustainable Chemical Industry at the DISAT department (Polito) and, from February 2021, she will Associated Professor leading a course on Oil & Gas Processing. She is responsible of the research team: CO2 reduction for a low-carbon economy (CREST group). She is collaborator at the CSFT of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT@Polito), member of the RSC, MRS, ISE and SCI (Electrochemical Division). She is technical coordinator of the EU H2020 project SunCoChem (https://suncochem.eu/), principal investigator of the H2020 project OCEAN (https://www.spire2030.eu/ocean), vice-coordinator of the EU H2020 project RECODE (https://www.recodeh2020.eu/) and has worked in the coordination and scientific teams of other EU Projects (CELBICON, SOLHYDROMICS, MCWAP, ArtipHyction, ECO2CO2 and TERRA) related to the development of Novel Sustainable Photo-Electro-Chemical Processes for the capture and conversion of the CO2 from lab-scale (TRL2/3) to Pilot scale (TRL5/6). She is Associate Editor of the Journals Frontier in Chemistry (section Catalysis and Photocatalysis) and Nanomaterials (mdpi). She is reviewer of high-level international scientific journals such as Nature Catalysis, Appl. Cat. B: Environm., Adv. Energy Mat., ChemSusChem and Green Chemistry, among others.
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INGEGNERIA CHIMICA, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CHIMICA, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CHIMICA, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CHIMICA, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA CHIMICA, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Chimica e dei Materiali. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria Energetica. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente
Teachings
Bachelor of Science
- Chimica. A.A. 2008/9, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Institute
Research groups/teams
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- SuPERCO2 - Surface Polarization, Evolution, and Reconstruction for CO2 Reduction , (2024-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - HE - Excellent Science - MSCA - interface - AtomIc scale eNgineering of metal halide perovskiTEs suRFace towards exceptionally stAble and highly seleCtive photoElectrodes for CO2 conversion into fuels , (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - CO2Synthesis - CO2-based electro-synthesis of high added-value products by smart designed electrocatalysts , (2022-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Corporate-funded and donor-funded research - SunCoChem - CE-NMBP-25-2019 , (2020-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - NANOTECHNOLOGIES - OCEAN - SPIRE-10-2017 , (2017-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Cross-cutting activities - IND
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Feasibility studies on CO2 capture solvents as electrolytes for CO2 reduction , (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Stable Noble-Metal-Free Oxygen Evolution Electrodes for PEM Electrolysis , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Validazione di un assemblaggio membrana-elettrodo con una membrana anionica per la produzione di H2 , (2022-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Riduzione della CO2 a metanolo , (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Studio relativo al sistema foto-elettro-catalitico per la conversione dell’acqua e la CO2 a H2 e altri prodotti sostenibili , (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting - Riduzione della CO2 e Metanolo per vie Elettrocatalitica e Termocatalitica: Ottimizzazione di Catalizzatori e Confronto Energetico e di Performance fra i due Processi , (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - CO2 Meta , (2019-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Luqman Hakeem. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 39, 2024-in progress)
- Giulia Cuatto. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 38, 2022-in progress)
- Mario Gallone. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 37, 2021-in progress)
- Noemi Pirrone. Programme in Scienza E Tecnologia Dei Materiali (cycle 37, 2021-in progress)
- Francesco Vanzetti. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 37, 2022-in progress)
- Federica Zammillo. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 37, 2021-in progress)
- Alessia Fortunati. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 35, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Electrochemical CO2 reduction in ionic and poly-ionic liquids-based systems - Maddalena Zoli. Programme in Ingegneria Chimica (cycle 35, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Development and advanced characterization of Cu-based catalysts for the electro and photo-electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
Publications
Publications by type
PoliTO co-authors
Last years publications
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- Mezzapesa, Marco Pietro; Salomone, Fabio; Guzmán, Hilmar; Zammillo, Federica; Millini, ... (2024)
Development of In–Cu binary oxide catalysts for hydrogenating CO2 via thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic routes. In: INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS, vol. 11, pp. 2319-2338. ISSN 2052-1553
Contributo su Rivista - Zammillo, Federica; Guzman, Hilmar; Iliev, Boyan; Narbey, Stephanie; Parisi, Emmanuele; ... (2023)
Addressing the stability challenges of Gas Diffusion Electrodes in the presence of ILs-based solutions for the continuous Electrochemical Reduction of CO2. In: 2023 MRS Spring Meeting&Exhibit, Virtual, 25-27 Aprile, 2023
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Zammillo, Federica; Guzman, Hilmar; Polino, Daniela; Miro, Roger; Lopera, Alberto; ... (2023)
Addressing the stability challenges of Gas Diffusion Electrodes in the presence of ILs-based solutions for the continuous Electrochemical Conversion of CO2.
Altro - Dattila, Federico; Fortunati, Alessia; Zammillo, Federica; GUZMAN MEDINA, HILMAR DEL ... (2023)
Identifying Promising Ionic Liquids for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction.
Altro - Zoli, Maddalena; Guzman, Hilmar; Sacco, Adriano; Russo, Nunzio; Hernández, Simelys (2023)
Cu2O/SnO2 Heterostructures: Role of the Synthesis Procedure on PEC CO2 Conversion. In: MATERIALS, vol. 16, pp. 1-19. ISSN 1996-1944
Contributo su Rivista - Fortunati, Alessia; Risplendi, Francesca; RE FIORENTIN, Michele; Cicero, Giancarlo; ... (2023)
Understanding the role of imidazolium-based ionic liquids in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction. In: COMMUNICATIONS CHEMISTRY, vol. 6. ISSN 2399-3669
Contributo su Rivista - Pietricola, G.; Chamorro, L.; Castellino, M.; Maureira, D.; Tommasi, T.; Hernandez, S.; ... (2022)
Covalent Immobilization of Dehydrogenases on Carbon Felt for Reusable Anodes with Effective Electrochemical Cofactor Regeneration. In: CHEMISTRYOPEN, vol. 11. ISSN 2191-1363
Contributo su Rivista - Pirrone, N.; Garcia Ballesteros, S.; Hernandez, S.; Bella, F. (2022)
Preliminary tests of electrochemical nitrogen conversion into ammonia in aqueous electrolyte. In: Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2022 (MYCS 2022), Rimini (Italy), 21st - 23rd November 2022, pp. 112-112. ISBN: 978-88-94952-32-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Zammillo, Federica; Guzman, Hilmar; Hernandez, Simelys (2022)
Insight into the practical challenges of membrane-electrode assembly for the CO2 electrochemical reduction and its advantages.
Altro - Dattila, Federico; Garci´a-Muelas, Rodrigo; Hernández, Simelys; López, Núria (2022)
Modeling Surface Reconstruction of Cu-based catalysts under Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Conditions.
Altro
Society and Enterprise
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Poly-ionic liquids for CO2 electrochemical conversion. international Patent
Inventors: Simelys Pris Hernandez Ribullen