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in books related to coal and carbon science and technology, and more than 200 papers
in conference volumes. She has been vice-director of INCAR-CSIC and head of the
Science and Technology of Coal and Coal Products Department and a member of
R&D Committees on a National and European level (European Coke Committee,
Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the CSIC Commission, Coal Advisory Group
of Research Fund for Coal and SteeldRFCSdof the European Commission).

M. Victoria Gil received her PhD in Environmental Sciences, specializing in technol-
ogy, from the University of Le on (Spain) in 2007. During her predoctoral stage, she
completed a short research stay at the University of Essex (UK). At the University
of Le on, she worked on the biomass valorization by means of the composting process.
In February 2009, she joined the Energy Processes and Emission Reduction (PrEM)
Group at INCAR-CSIC with a postdoctoral position, where she worked until August
2015. Her postdoctoral research was focused on the study of the thermal behavior and
kinetic analysis of the combustion of coal and biomass/coal blends, the hydrogen
production by means of the gasification of coal and biomass, as well as the CO 2
capture by oxy-combustion and CO 2 capture by adsorption processes with carbon
biomassederived materials. She has been a postdoc fellow at the NTNU in Trondheim
(Norway) between September 2015 and August 2017, where her research topic was the
production of hydrogen by the catalytic sorptioneenhanced steam reforming of
biomass-derived compounds. Currently, she is a postdoc fellow at INCAR-CSIC,
where she is investigating the valorization of biogas. During her scientific career,
she has participated in about 30 research projects and contracts with private companies
and published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Marta G. Plaza carried out her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the
Universities of Oviedo and Strathclyde and received her PhD from the University of
Oviedo in 2009. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Porto,
she joined the Department of Coal, Energy and Environment at INCAR-CSIC, where
she continues to develop her activity. Her main research interests are emissions reduc-
tion and adsorption-based separation processes with special focus on CO 2 capture.

Merete Tangstad finished her MSc in 1989 and PhD in 1996 at the Norwegian Uni-
versity of Science and Technology within coke beds in FeMn production. From 1990
to 2000 she worked in Elkem, a manganese and silicon ferroalloy producer in Norway,
mainly in research. In the period 1996e97 she also operated the 40 MW FeMn furnace
at one of the Elkem plants. From 2000 to 2004 she continued to work in research
within manganese furnace operation in Eramet. From 2004 she has been a professor
at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where her main interests
have been furnace operation of the production of manganese and silicon ferroalloy,
as well as silicon production. She has also worked with the production of solar-
grade silicon by metallurgical routes. She has been the main supervisor of 24 PhD
students, been the author or coauthor of 4 books, and have more than 100 internation-
ally published papers.