Williane Freitas
Williane Freitas is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the MaDE@UTV research group at the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies of the University of Rome Tor Vergata (UTV), Italy. She received her Degree in Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) and her Master’s Degree in Engineering and Materials Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at UTV, focusing her research on developing Platinum Group Metal-free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Electrochemical Devices.
She was awarded the 2022 “Fondazione Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora” Doctoral Prize by the Executive Board of the Division of Electrochemistry of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI).
She has actively collaborated with several research institutes and academic institutions, including Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Milano-Bicocca, CNR ITAE in Messina, the Institute of Carboquímica in Zaragoza (Spain), the Tokyo university of Marine Science and Technology (Japan), Chongqing University, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an (China), and the University of California Irvine (USA).
Her research interests are related to the electrochemistry of energy conversion and storage devices, structure and transport properties in polymer electrolytes, oxygen electrocatalysis, and bioelectrochemistry, with focused attention on the synthesis, characterization, and application of noble metal-free nanostructured materials for the oxygen electrocatalysis in polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers. She is the author and co-author of > 15 research papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and 1 book chapter (Scopus ID: 57218542383).
