TERESA PUIG MOLINA

TERESA PUIG MOLINA

ERC Project (STG): “ULRASUPERTAPE: ULTRAfast growth of ultrahigh performance SUPERconducting TAPEs”

Teresa Puig works on developing high temperature superconductor materials with zero resistance and no loss of current. These are materials that help make the electrical network more effective and achieve magnetic fields that cannot be generated otherwise. Right now, the electrical networks lose 10% of the energy being transported. These materials will make it more efficient and therefore cheaper.

The project proposes a new approach to manufacturing high-temperature superconductor tapes with low-cost, high-performance and high service provision for the new energy challenge. The project aims to reach growth speeds 100 times greater than current speeds in thick layers and service provisions never reached before thanks to manipulation of local voltages and electronic densities of the superconductor state. An additive manufacturing platform will be implemented with continuous digital printing techniques for chemical solutions that will guarantee a competitive manufacturing process.

Bio

Teresa Puig, researcher in superconductor materials, was born in Terrassa and graduated in Physical Sciences at the Barcelona Autonomous University in 1989. In her third year at university, she came across the high temperature superconductor materials that won the Nobel prize in 1987. This was when Prof. Juan S. Muñoz offered her the chance to form part of his research team. Her first job was to synthesise one of these materials and right during the Midsummer’s Eve celebrations, among fireworks and bonfires, they achieved the first Catalan high temperature superconductor. Ever since, she has known that her passion was for research and she is still studying Superconductivity to this day. She has carried out research in 5 different countries and in 1997, she joined the group run by Prof. Xavier Obradores at the Barcelona Institute of Material Sciences, ICMAB-CSIC.

She currently has a consolidated research group on superconductor materials at the ICMAB and runs a European Research Council project, ERC Advanced, on this topic. She dreams of being able to bring Superconductivity to society.

Prof. Teresa Puig took her PhD in Physical Sciences in 1994 at the Barcelona Autonomous University. She took research positions abroad over 46 months and returned to Spain where she secured a position as a CSIC Tenured Scientist in 2000. In 2010, she became a CSIC Research Professor and since 2008 she has been the director of the Department of Superconductor Materials and large-scale nanostructuring for the ICMAB-CSIC. She has supervised 17 doctoral dissertations, published 300 articles, given 30 guest speeches and plenaries at international conferences, she has organised a variety of international conferences and run a significant number of national, European and international research projects.

She is co-founder of a spin-off, OXOLUTIA S.L. and the inventor of 11 patents. For the last 10 years she has been on the editorial committee of the “Superconducting Science and Technology” journal and she is a member of the executive committee of the European Applied Superconductivity Society.

In 2002, she was awarded the Duran Farell Prize for technological research and in 2015 she won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona for Experimental Science and Technology.

Bio

Teresa Puig, researcher in superconductor materials, was born in Terrassa and graduated in Physical Sciences at the Barcelona Autonomous University in 1989. In her third year at university, she came across the high temperature superconductor materials that won the Nobel prize in 1987. This was when Prof. Juan S. Muñoz offered her the chance to form part of his research team. Her first job was to synthesise one of these materials and right during the Midsummer’s Eve celebrations, among fireworks and bonfires, they achieved the first Catalan high temperature superconductor. Ever since, she has known that her passion was for research and she is still studying Superconductivity to this day. She has carried out research in 5 different countries and in 1997, she joined the group run by Prof. Xavier Obradores at the Barcelona Institute of Material Sciences, ICMAB-CSIC.

She currently has a consolidated research group on superconductor materials at the ICMAB and runs a European Research Council project, ERC Advanced, on this topic. She dreams of being able to bring Superconductivity to society.

Prof. Teresa Puig took her PhD in Physical Sciences in 1994 at the Barcelona Autonomous University. She took research positions abroad over 46 months and returned to Spain where she secured a position as a CSIC Tenured Scientist in 2000. In 2010, she became a CSIC Research Professor and since 2008 she has been the director of the Department of Superconductor Materials and large-scale nanostructuring for the ICMAB-CSIC. She has supervised 17 doctoral dissertations, published 300 articles, given 30 guest speeches and plenaries at international conferences, she has organised a variety of international conferences and run a significant number of national, European and international research projects.

She is co-founder of a spin-off, OXOLUTIA S.L. and the inventor of 11 patents. For the last 10 years she has been on the editorial committee of the “Superconducting Science and Technology” journal and she is a member of the executive committee of the European Applied Superconductivity Society.

In 2002, she was awarded the Duran Farell Prize for technological research and in 2015 she won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona for Experimental Science and Technology.

ERC Project (STG): “ULRASUPERTAPE: ULTRAfast growth of ultrahigh performance SUPERconducting TAPEs”

Teresa Puig works on developing high temperature superconductor materials with zero resistance and no loss of current. These are materials that help make the electrical network more effective and achieve magnetic fields that cannot be generated otherwise. Right now, the electrical networks lose 10% of the energy being transported. These materials will make it more efficient and therefore cheaper.

The project proposes a new approach to manufacturing high-temperature superconductor tapes with low-cost, high-performance and high service provision for the new energy challenge. The project aims to reach growth speeds 100 times greater than current speeds in thick layers and service provisions never reached before thanks to manipulation of local voltages and electronic densities of the superconductor state. An additive manufacturing platform will be implemented with continuous digital printing techniques for chemical solutions that will guarantee a competitive manufacturing process.