Cristina Tapia

Cristina Tapia

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cristina Tapia was born in Barcelona in 1986. She finished her BSc in Biotechnology in 2009 and her MSc in Applied Chemistry in 2015. She received the Ph.D degree in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Pita and Dr. López de Lacey at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Madrid. During her doctorate she worked with metalloenzymes and their combination with light harvesting semiconductors for bioelectrochemical water photo-splitting.
She joined the SolHyCat group in December 2018. Her postdoc project aims at designing hydrogen production photocathode by combining bioinspired catalysts with Earth-abundant semiconducting materials, and it is cofounded by DRF-Impulsion from CEA and the MOPGA program.

Selected Publications

1. Laccase-Catalyzed Bioelectrochemical Oxidation of Water Assisted with Visible Light

C. Tapia, et al. ACS Catalysis. 7, 4881–4889 (2017).

2. Wiring of Photosystem I and Hydrogenase on an Electrode for Photoelectrochemical H2 Production by using Redox Polymers for Relatively Positive onset potential

C. Tapia, et al. ChemElectroChem., 4, 90-95 (2017).

3. Synthesis and Characterization of V-doped β-In2S3 Thin Films on FTO substrates

C. Tapia, et al. J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 28753–28761 (2016).

4. In situ determination of photobioproduction of H2 by In2S3-[NiFeSe] Hydrogenase from D. vulgaris Hildenborough using only visible light

C. Tapia, et al. ACS Catalysis, 6, 5691-5698 (2016).

Selected Presentations

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Hydrid system for solar energy conversion into hydrogen

C.Tapia, L. Cagnon, A. Morozan, V. Artero

47th World Chemistry Congress of IUPAC, Paris, France, July 2019

4th National Solar Fuels Conference (GDR, Solar Fuels), Paris-Saclay, France, May 2019

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Hydrid system for solar energy conversion into hydrogen

C.Tapia, L. Cagnon, A. Morozan, V. Artero

`La Chimie a Grenoble´, Grenoble, France, March 2019