Prof M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer is the first Robert Buchan Chair in Sustainable Energy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. This is a joint appointment between the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Institute of Petroleum Engineering. At Heriot-Watt she is the Head of the Institute for Mechanical, Processing and Energy Engineering (School of Engineering and Physical Sciences) and leads the pan-University Energy Academy. She is also Director of the EPSRC funded Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS). She is a member of the Directorate of the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS). She obtained a BSc with Honours (First Class) in Applied Chemistry in 1993 and then a PhD in 1997 at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland). Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Applied Energy Research (CAER) at the University of Kentucky in US, she moved to the Pennsylvania State University in US, where she worked as Research Fellow and from 2001 as Assistant Professor and became Program Coordinator for Sustainable Energy. She joined the University of Nottingham as Reader in 2005 and within 3 years she was promoted to Professor in Energy Technologies. During her time at Nottingham she was the Head of the Energy and Sustainability Research Division at the Faculty of Engineering.

Liou, P-Y. , Chen, S-C. , Wu, J. C. S. , Liu, D. , Mackintosh, S. , Maroto-Valer, M. and Linforth, R., Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using an internally illuminated monolith photoreactor, Energy and Environmental Science. 2011, 4, 4, p. 1487-1494. [Link] Olivares-Marin, M. , Drage, T. C. and Maroto-Valer, M. M. Novel lithium-based sorbents from fly ashes for CO2 capture at high temperatures, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 2010, 4, 4, p. 623-629. [Link] Wang, X. and Maroto-Valer, M. Integration of CO2 capture and mineral carbonation by using recyclable ammonium salts, ChemSusChem. 2011, 4, 9, 1177–1323. [Link] Rallo, M. , Lopez-Anton, M. A. , Meij, R. , Perry, R. and Maroto-Valer, M. M. Study of mercury in by-products from a Dutch co-combustion power station, Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2010, 174, 1-3, 28-33. [Link] Sanz-Perez, E. S., Olivares-Marin, M., Arencibia, A. Sanz, R.; Calleja, G., Maroto-Valer, M.M., CO2 adsorption performance of amino-functionalized SBA-15 under post-combustion conditions, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2013, 17, 366-375. [Link] Liu, Qi; Maroto-Valer, M. M., Investigation of the pH effect of a typical host rock and buffer solution on CO2 sequestration in synthetic brines, Fuel Processing Technology, 2010, 91, 10, 1321-1329. [Link]