She is working on her doctoral thesis within the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology program, entitled "Chemical and electrochemical energy storage" registered at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, whose development is being carried out at CIEMAT under the supervision of Maria Belén Gómez Mancebo and Isabel Rucandio Sáez. Her thesis research is based on the optimization of the synthesis of graphene hydrogels and their subsequent functionalization for different applications such as water decontamination, supercapacitors and hydrogen storage.

She is working on her doctoral thesis within the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology program, entitled "Development and evaluation of a hydrogen production and storage system as a renewable energy vector" registered at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, whose development is being carried out at CIEMAT under the supervision of Isabel Rucandio Sáez. Her thesis research is based on the optimization of a system for the production and storage of hydrogen.

Andrés Velasco Santiago is a PhD student at the Instituto de Sistemas Optoelectrónicos y Microtecnología, working within the Graphene & 2D crystals group on his thesis, titled "Graphene devices for the improvement of renewable energy" under the supervision of Dr. Javier Martínez Rodrigo and Dr. Fernando Calle Gómez. His thesis research is focused on fabrication and characterization of graphenic materials and devices for energy generation (in solar cells) and energy storage (electrochemical supercapacitors). He was granted an FPU contract from the Government of Spain.

Assia Hamada is a PhD student at the Instituto de Sistemas Optoelectrónicos y Microtecnología, working within the Graphene & 2D crystals group on her thesis, titled "Applications of Graphene and 2D materials in supercapacitors: from large area to nano and from rigid to flexible devices " under the supervision of Prof. Javier Martínez Rodrigo and Dr. Yu Kyoung Ryu. Her thesis research is focused on the fabrication and characterization of laser induced graphene based microsupercapacitors and other graphene and 2D materials based energy storage devices. She was granted a prestigious PhD fellowship from the Algerian government.

Hana Bourahla is a PhD student at the Instituto de Sistemas Optoelectrónicos y Microtecnología, working within the Graphene & 2D crystals group on her thesis, titled "Application of Graphene to Diodes and Solar Cells" under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Calle Gómez and Dr. Yu Kyoung Ryu. Her thesis research is focused on the fabrication and characterization of solar cells that has graphene based materials as components and the study of the improvement of graphene based devices characteristics through doping and surface cleaning strategies. She was granted a prestigious PhD fellowship from the Algerian government.