Daniel Martín-Yerga joined the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science at Aalto University (Finland) as an Assistant Professor in January 2025, where he leads the Electrochemical Materials and Applications research group. Before, he was a Group Leader and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) since September 2023. He completed his PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2016, focusing on the design of nanomaterials for electrochemical sensing. After a period in industry (Metrohm Dropsens), Daniel transitioned back to academia by embarking on a postdoctoral period at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He made notable contributions to the development of electrocatalytic materials for the valorisation of biomass-based chemicals and green hydrogen production. Daniel undertook a second postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick (UK). Initially funded by a Faraday Institution project and later supported by a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission, he pioneered high-throughput electrochemical microscopy approaches to study materials for batteries and energy conversion technologies.
Daniel’s significant contributions to the field of electrochemical materials science have been recognised through several awards. For instance, he has received the two most prestigious awards for Spanish young researchers in Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, from the Electrochemical Division of the Spanish Society of Chemistry and the Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry, respectively.
