Professor Ana Sobrido's contributions to chemical sciences have been recognised this year by her admission as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Prof Sobrido's research targets the design and optimisation of sustainable alternatives to materials for energy conversion and storage.

Her UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship develops new strategies to tailor 3D porous structures for efficient electrodes using biomass waste resources. Her group's work has led to new understanding of structure-property relationships in these systems and the chemical and structural factors affecting mass transport and charge transfer mechanisms in redox flow batteries.

Her research activities also span to the areas of electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis, where Prof Sobrido's group has pioneered work on unraveling the role of single atom co-catalyst for photoassisted water oxidation and has developed electron spin selective systems for enhanced electrocatalytic performance.

This is the latest recognition of her work, following her 2023 shortlisting for the Journal Materials Chemistry Lectureship.