Rate My Professor Marta Costa Figueiredo

Figueiredo's research is centered on electrocatalysis and electro(catalytic)synthesis aimed at sustainable processes for producing high-value chemicals, such as fuels and organic molecules, from waste substrates including carbon dioxide and biomass. Her work emphasizes understanding, developing, and optimizing electrochemical reactions under practical, industrially relevant conditions to facilitate the industrial-scale application of electrochemistry. She received the ISE Travel Award for Young Electrochemists in 2015 and was a ROW Fellow at the Technical University of Munich in 2014. Key publications include "Elucidating the influence of secondary nitrogen precursors on the performance of Fe–N–C catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells" in Energy Advances (2026), "Restructuring of shape-controlled Cu₂O catalysts during CO₂ electroreduction" in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (2026), "A comparative study of electrochemical CO₂ reduction on hydrothermally synthesized carbon nanosphere-supported Ni-, Cu-, and NiCu-hydroxide catalysts" in Catalysis Science and Technology (2026), "Cu-Ag interactions in bimetallic Cu-Ag catalysts enhance C₂+ product formation during electrochemical CO reduction" in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2025), and "Editorial overview: Electrochemical energy conversion" in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering (2025), where she served as a corresponding author. Through her contributions, Figueiredo advances sustainable chemical production and the transition to environmentally friendly industrial processes.