Group Leader: Dr. Daniel Martín Yerga
Assistant Professor in Applied Electrochemistry
Department of Chemistry and Materials Science
School of Chemical Engineering
Aalto University (Finland)
Daniel Martín-Yerga joined the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science at Aalto University (Finland) as an Assistant Professor in January 2025, where he leads the Electrochemical Materials and Applications research group. Before, he was a Group Leader and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) since September 2023. He completed his PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2016, focusing on the design of nanomaterials for electrochemical sensing. After a period in industry (Metrohm Dropsens), Daniel transitioned back to academia by embarking on a postdoctoral period at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He made notable contributions to the development of electrocatalytic materials for the valorisation of biomass-based chemicals and green hydrogen production. Daniel undertook a second postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick (UK). Initially funded by the Faraday Institution and later supported by a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission, he pioneered high-throughput electrochemical microscopy approaches to study materials for batteries and energy conversion technologies.
Daniel’s significant contributions to the field of electrochemical materials science have been recognised through several awards. For instance, he has received two of Spain’s most prestigious awards for young researchers in Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, from the Electrochemical Division of the Spanish Society of Chemistry and the Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry, respectively.
Daniel’s research profiles:
Current team members
Sayani Biswas
Doctoral Researcher
Development of electrocatalysts for valorization of biomass-based chemicals
Team pictures
Previous team members
Nawaz Shah
Visiting researcher – Erasmus Master Student at University of Poitiers (France)
Pd-based electrocatalysts for lactic acid oxidation
Danish Surattee
Visiting researcher – Bachelor student at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
AuCu Bimetallic electrocatalysts for glucose oxidation
Joan Arnandis Calatayud
Visiting researcher – Erasmus Bachelor student at the University of Valencia (Spain)
Synthesis of AuCu electrocatalysts by galvanic exchange for glucose valorization