Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya

Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is currently the director of the Interface Science Department at the FHI in Berlin (Germany). In addition, she became interim director of the Inorganic Chemistry Department in April 2023.

She began her academic career by completing her MSc in Physics in Spain in 1998 and a PhD in Physics in Germany in 2001. Her postdoctoral research took her to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA). In 2004, she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida (UCF) as Assistant Professor becoming a full professor in 2012. In 2013, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya became a chair professor of Solid State Physics at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She then moved to the FHI in 2017.

Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is the author of 245 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, and 6 patents. Her H-factor is 85 (Google Scholar) and her work has received more than 30,000 citations. She is among the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science (2021, 2022, 2023) recognized by Clarivate. She serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Catalysis  and the Chemical Reviews journal. Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya has received a number of awards including the Margarita Salas Award (2024), the Manchot Research Professorship from TU Munich (2023), the Faraday Medal from The Electrochemistry Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), the Paul H. Emmett Award from the North American Catalysis Society (2022), the Röntgen Medal of the City of Remscheid (2022), the International Society of Electrochemistry-Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry (2021), and the Peter Mark Memorial Award of the American Vacuum Society (2009). She is also a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (2021), a member of the Academia Europaea (2020) and of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (2024).