Personal Chair
- Email Address
- angel.cuestaciscar@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
I obtained my PhD in Chemistry in 1996 and moved then on for three years (two of them with the support of a Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers Fellowship) as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of the late Prof. D.M. Kolb at the University of Ulm (Germany).
In July 2001 I was selected as Provisional Staff Scientist at the Institute of Physical Chemistry “Rocasolano” (CSIC) in Madrid, where I promoted to Staff Scientist in December 2002 and then to the Senior Scientist scale of CSIC in March 2010.
I was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen (UK) in July 2013, where I promoted to Reader in August 2016 and to Personal Chair in August 2018. I served as the Director of Research of the School of Natural and Computing Sciences from 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2021 and as the Interim Head of the School between 1 October 2021 and 31 August 2022.
I was awarded the CIDETEC prize for scientific research [1] 2006, and a Visiting Professorship at the Catalysis Research Centre of Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) in 2007.
Between January 2017 and December 2018 I served as Chair-Elect of Division 7 (Physical Electrochemistry) of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), as Chair of the Division between January 2019 and December 2020 and I am currently the Immediate Past-chair until December 2022.
I was member of the Editorial Board of Electrocatalysis (Springer) between 2010 and 2014. I belong to the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (Elsevier) since January 2016 and of Electrochemical Science Advances (Wiley) since 2020. I am a member of the Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (Elsevier) between 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023.
[1] The CIDETEC prize for scientific research is awarded yearly by the Electrochemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), and is funded with €6,000 by CIDETEC.
External Memberships
Immediate past-Chair Division 7 ISE, 2021 - 2022
Chair Division 7, ISE, 2019 - 2020
Chair-Elect Division 7, International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), 2017 - 2018
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (Elsevier)
Member of the Editorial Board of Electrochemical Science Advances
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Real Sociedad Española de Química
Latest Publications
Double-layer structure and cation-dependent solvent decomposition in acetonitrile-based electrolytes
Gunasekaran, P., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Journal of Solid State ElectrochemistryContributions to Journals: ArticlesElectrochemical Fundamentals | Mixed Potential
Cuesta Ciscar, A., Gibson, A. J.Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. Garche, J. (ed.). 2nd edition. Elsevier, pp. 110-120, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96022-9.00187-0
Water at electrode-electrolyte interfaces: combining HOD vibrational spectra with ab initio-molecular dynamics simulations
Gunasekaran, P., Du, X., Burley, A., Le, J., Cheng, J., Cuesta, A.Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 42, pp. 17469-17480Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAlkaline-metal cations affect Pt deactivation for the electrooxidation of small organic molecules by affecting the formation of inactive Pt oxide
Yukuhiro, V., Vicente, R., Fernández, P. S., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 40, pp. 27745-27754Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInhibition of Photocatalyst-assisted Electron Transference at ITIES under Simulated Solar Irradiation - the Role of Supporting Electrolyte
Avella Fernandez, E. I., Folli, A., Cuesta Ciscar, A.ChemElectroChem, vol. 11, no. 19, e202400333Contributions to Journals: Articles
Prizes and Awards
CIDETEC Prize for Scientific Research 2006
Visiting Professor at the Catalysis Research Centre of Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan), 2007
Special Visiting Professor at UFSCAR (São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil), 2013 - 2016
Research Overview
The work in my group is focused on the combination of classical electrochemical techniques with in situ optical spectroscopies and scanning probe microscopies, in order to obtain an as detailed as possible description of the electrode surface and the electrochemical double layer at the atomic and molecular level. I am mainly interested in problems dealing with Electrocatalysis (reaction mechanisms, reaction and surface dynamics, atomic ensemble effects) and surface nanostructuring.Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Chemistry.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Chemical Physics
- Physical Chemistry
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Funding and Grants
EP/X000931/1, Electrocatalysis in non-thermal plasmas for energy storage
PI: Angel Cuesta
Co-I: Panagiotis Kechagiopoulos
Funding Agency: EPSRC
RPG-2021-342, Time-resolved dynamics of the electrode-electrolyte interface
PI: Angel Cuesta
Funding Agency: The Leverhulme Trust
RPG-015-040, Electroreduction of carbon dioxide in room temperature ionic liquids
PI: Angel Cuesta
Co-PI: Jun Cheng
Funding Agency: The Leverhulme Trust
RF-2018-79, Sustainable materials for energy conversion and storage
PI: Angel Cuesta
Co-PI: Claudia Fernandez-Martin
Funding Agency: BEIS - UUKi
Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
I teach both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in courses covering different aspects of Physical Chemistry, Electrochemistry and topics related to energy conversion and storage. I coordinate the third year Physical Chemistry Teaching Lab within CM3536.
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Double-layer structure and cation-dependent solvent decomposition in acetonitrile-based electrolytes
Gunasekaran, P., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Journal of Solid State ElectrochemistryContributions to Journals: ArticlesElectrochemical Fundamentals | Mixed Potential
Cuesta Ciscar, A., Gibson, A. J.Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. Garche, J. (ed.). 2nd edition. Elsevier, pp. 110-120, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96022-9.00187-0
Water at electrode-electrolyte interfaces: combining HOD vibrational spectra with ab initio-molecular dynamics simulations
Gunasekaran, P., Du, X., Burley, A., Le, J., Cheng, J., Cuesta, A.Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 42, pp. 17469-17480Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAlkaline-metal cations affect Pt deactivation for the electrooxidation of small organic molecules by affecting the formation of inactive Pt oxide
Yukuhiro, V., Vicente, R., Fernández, P. S., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 40, pp. 27745-27754Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInhibition of Photocatalyst-assisted Electron Transference at ITIES under Simulated Solar Irradiation - the Role of Supporting Electrolyte
Avella Fernandez, E. I., Folli, A., Cuesta Ciscar, A.ChemElectroChem, vol. 11, no. 19, e202400333Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPutting stored hydrogen to work without consuming it: a flexible system for energy conversion and water desalination
Shibuya, J., MacPhee, D., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Journal of Power Sources, vol. 613, 234906Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe dermacozines and light: a novel phenazine semiquinone radical based photocatalytic system from the deepest oceanic trench of the Earth
Juhasz, B., Cuesta, A., Howe, R. F., Jaspars, M.Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 2024, no. 30, pp. 6156-6165Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnderstanding Electrochemical Interfaces through Comparing Experimental and Computational Charge Density-Potential Curves
Mohandas, N., Bawari, S., Shibuya, J., Ghosh, S., Mondal, J., Narayanan, T., Cuesta Ciscar, A.Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 18, pp. 6643-6660Contributions to Journals: ArticlesElectrochemistry in non-conventional electrolytes
Cuesta, A., Cheng, J., Herrero, E.Electrochemical Science Advances, vol. 3, no. 4, e2300020Contributions to Journals: EditorialsTailoring the Interfacial Water Structure by Electrolyte Engineering for Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Mohandas, N., Narayanan, T., Cuesta Ciscar, A.ACS Catalysis, vol. 13, pp. 8384−8393Contributions to Journals: Articles
