Javier Rubio Garcia

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
University of Cambridge,
27 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge, CB3 0FS

Education:

Université Paul Sabatier (France), Nanotechnology, PhD, 2010, Title of thesis: Strategies to yield water dispersible ZnO NPs synthesized by an organometallic approach
Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Organometallic Chemistry, Honours Degree Thesis 2005
Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Inorganic Chemistry, Licenciatura en Química, 2004

From Feb 2016 to currently: co-founder and director at SweetGen Ltd (spin out from Imperial College London)
From Jun 2014 to March 2020: Research Associate at Imperial College London
From Jun 2017 to Jan 2019: co-founder and director at RFC Power Ltd (spin out from Imperial College London)

2018 to April 2022 - BEIS Energy Entrepreneur Fund round 6. Scale up and pilot scale trials of abiotic device that cleans wastewater while generating electricity. Total budget: £776k
Sep 2017 to Ago 2018 - Innovate UK Materials and manufacturing round. Electrochemical harvesting of energy from industrial wastewater. Total budget: £97k
2016 to 2018 - European Institute of Technology – Climate KIC. Total budget: £120k
2016 to 2017 - Fondo de Emprendedores Repsol accelerator program Total budget: £48k

2016 - Entrepreneurial Award - 1st Prize Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition.
2016 – Imperial College President Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship – Along with Dr Daniel Malko and Prof Anthony Kucernak.
2014 - Juan de la Cierva Fellowship Individual from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (declined to join Imperial College London).
2012 – Inspiraciencia Award – Science-based literature competition organized by the Spanish Council for Scientific Research.
2007 - Early-Stage Research Training Marie Curie Fellowship – Nanotool, FP7 Host Fellowships Training.

Interfacial reactions in batteries, fuel cells, electrolysers, and heterogeneous catalysis
Electrosynthesis of oxidants, liquid fuels, and ammonia
Materials science including synthesis, characterization, and implementation in electrochemical devices
Engineering of electrochemical reactors

“Modelling of redox flow battery electrode processes at a range of length scales: a review” BK Chakrabarti, E Kalamaras, AK Singh, A Bertei, J Rubio-Garcia, V Yufit, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 4 (11), 5433-5468.
“High energy density Hydrogen/Vanadium hybrid redox flow battery utilising HCl as a supporting electrolyte” J. Rubio-Garcia, J. Cui, A. Parra-Puerto, A. Kucernak. Energy Storage Materials Volume 31, October 2020, Pages 1-10.
“Hydrogen/functionalized benzoquinone for a high-performance regenerative fuel cell as a potential large-scale energy storage solution” J. Rubio-Garcia, A. Kucernak, R. Liu and B. Chakrabarti. Journal of Material Chemistry A8 (7), 3933-3941.
“Uncovering the mechanisms of electrolyte permeation in porous electrodes for redox flow batteries through real time in situ 3D imaging” F. Tariq, J. Rubio-Garcia, V. Yufit, A. Bertei, B. Chakrabarti, A. Kucernak and N. Brandon. Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2 (9), 2068-2080.
“Hydrogen/manganese hybrid redox flow battery” J. Rubio-Garcia, A. Kucernak, D. Zhao, V. Yufit, M. Gomez-Gonzalez, K. Fahy and N. Brandon. Journal of Physics: Energy 1 (1), 015006.
“Direct visualization of reactant transport in forced convection electrochemical cells and its application to redox flow batteries” J Rubio-Garcia, A Kucernak, A Charleson, Electrochemistry Communications 93, 128-132.