Clara Blanco is a Scientific Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono (INCAR-CSIC). She graduated in Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (1994) where she also received her PhD (1998).

During her doctorate, she made stays at the University of Bath (UK) and Clemson (South Carolina, USA). Between 1999-2001 she worked in the Department of Materials at the University of Leeds (UK) with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2002 she returned to INCAR-CSIC with a Ramón y Cajal fellowship where she works since then. Her expertise is related to the development of carbon materials such as fibers, composite materials, activated carbons and graphene, for different applications, both structural and for electrochemical energy storage devices, especially supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. She has participated in nearly 100 research projects and contracts with companies, as IP of many of them. She has published 130 articles in international journals and has participated in more than 100 papers presented at international conferences. She has supervised 7 doctoral theses. She was Coordinator of the Area of Materials Science and Technology of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and currently she is coordinating the CSIC Interdisciplinary Thematic for Sustainable Energy Transition (PTI-TransEner+).