Victoria García Rocha graduated from University of Oviedo, Spain, where received her MEng in Chemical Engineering and PhD in Materials Science in 2001 and 2008, respectively. She is Tenured Scientist and has held a Ramón y Cajal fellowship at INCAR-CSIC from 2020-2023, earlier she had been a Lecturer in Composites working in the area of carbon-ceramic composites. She has over six years postdoctoral experience including an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College London. Her expertise lies in the field of materials science, chemistry and engineering of carbon-based composite materials and ceramics. Her research interests are in the relationship between chemical structure and bulk properties of carbon materials, carbon-ceramic and ceramic composites, which enable the development of synthesis, scale up and processing technologies with the aim of finding new composite materials for different applications, primarily energy devices and advanced structural materials.