SPEAKERS

Paz Vaqueiro received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and is currently a lecturer in Materials Chemistry at the University of Reading (UK). She was previously (2008-13) a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), where she also held (2004-09) an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship for the investigation of high-performance thermoelectric materials. Her current research interests are focused on the solid-state chemistry and physics of thermoelectric materials, and since 2004, she has investigated the structure and properties of a wide range of materials, including skutterudites, transition-metal sulfides and oxychalcogenides. She is also involved in collaborative projects with engineering groups and industrial partners in the thermoelectric field.