Sofia Mediavilla Madrigal

Sofia graduated in 2020 with a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. During her studies she spent a year abroad at the National University of Singapore, where she first became interested in chemical catalysis. She is now a member of Beale group pursuing her PhD in Chemistry with Cardiff University under the supervision of Prof. Andy Beale, Prof. Stuart Taylor and Prof. Graham Hutchings. Her project mainly focuses on the characterisation of novel trimetallic catalysts for CO2 activation using spectroscopy and X-ray methods under in-situ and operando conditions. This project is in collaboration with experts from internationally leading research centres for catalysis including the UK (CIC and UK Catalysis Hub at Harwell), the Netherlands (MCEC, Utrecht) and Germany (FHI, Berlin).