Maria Pilar de Lara Castells

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Title: Stability, oxidation, and CO2 photo-reduction on sub-nanometic metal clusters: the paradigmatic Cu5 case

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Biography

Dr. María Pilar de Lara-Castells is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Fundamental Physics (IFF) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Head of the IFF-CSIC Group “Ab initio simulations of confined molecular systems and photodissociation dynamics” (ABINITFOT). She obtained her PhD in Physical-Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Bologna, Italy, and at the University of Florida, USA. She also held Invited Professor fellowships at the University Paris-Est in France. Her current research activities include the first-principles modelling of the stability, optical properties, and (photo-)reactivity of surface-supported metal clusters interacting with the environment. She has co-authored about 100 articles in a number of frontier areas 

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