Sara Barja

Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor at UPV/EHU.

Research line:

Electrocatalysis at the atomic scale.

Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (2013); PhD. Special Award from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (2012); ERC StG; In 2023, she received the Women Researchers Award from Ikerbasque.

Previous research experience at IMDEA nanociencia (Spain), Molecular Foundry - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany), Donostia International Physics Center (Spain), and Centro de Fisica de Materiales (Spain). Guest researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and University of Basel (Switzerland).

Doctor in Physics 2012 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

2025

Article / Continuous-Flow Synthesis of BiVO4 Nanoparticles: From Laboratory Scale to Practical Systems

ChemSusChem

Robles, C.; Montañés, L.; Mesa, C.A.; Iglesias, D.; Rabelo, H.; Spadaro, M.C.; Arbiol, J.; Redondo, J.; Schiller, F.; Barja, S.; Julián-López, B.; Gutiérrez-Blanco, A.; Sans, V.; Giménez, S.

2024

Review / Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface

Nature Reviews Chemistry

Pastor, E.; Lian, Z.; Xia, L.; Ecija, D.; Galán-Mascarós, J.R.; Barja, S.; Giménez, S.; Arbiol, J.; López, N.; García de Arquer, F.P.

2023

Article / A survey of Earth-abundant metal oxides as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic media (pH < 1)

EES Catalysis

Jiahao Yu, Stefano Giancola, Bahareh Khezri, David Nieto-Castro, Jesús Redondo, Frederik Schiller, Sara Barja, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Jordi Arbiol, Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós

Article / Highly Durable Nanoporous Cu2-xS Films for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis under Mild pH Conditions

ACS Catalysis

Fernández-Climent, R.; Redondo, J.; García-Tecedor, M.; Spadaro, M.C.; Li, J.; Chartrand, D.; Schiller, F.; Pazos, J.; Hurtado, M.F.; de la Peña O’Shea, V.; Kornienko, N.; Arbiol, J.; Barja, S.; Mesa, C.A.; Giménez, S.

Article / A survey of Earth-abundant metal oxides as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic media (pH o 1)

EES Catalysis

Yu, J.; Giancola, S.; Khezri, B.; Nieto-Castro, D.; Redondo, J.; Schiller, F.; Barja, S.; Spadaro, M.C.; Arbiol, J.; Garcés-Pineda, F.A.; Galán-Mascarós, J.R.

2020

Article / Electrochemical Stability of the Reconstructed Fe3O4(001) Surface

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Grumelli, D.; Wiegmann, T.; Barja, S.; Reikowski, F.; Maroun, F.; Allongue, P.; Balajka, J.; Parkinson, G.S.; Diebold, U.; Kern, K.; Magnussen, O.M.

2019

Article / Identifying substitutional oxygen as a prolific point defect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature Communications

Barja, S.; Refaely-Abramson, S.; Schuler, B.; Qiu, D.Y.; Pulkin, A.; Wickenburg, S.; Ryu, H.; Ugeda, M.M.; Kastl, C.; Chen, C.; Hwang, C.; Schwartzberg, A.; Aloni, S.; Mo, S.K.; Frank Ogletree, D.; Crommie, M.F.; Yazyev, O.V.; Louie, S.G.; Neaton, J.B.; Weber-Bargioni, A.

Article / Large Spin-Orbit Splitting of Deep In-Gap Defect States of Engineered Sulfur Vacancies in Monolayer WS2

Physical Review Letters

Schuler, B.; Qiu, D.Y.; Refaely-Abramson, S.; Kastl, C.; Chen, C.T.; Barja, S.; Koch, R.J.; Ogletree, D.F.; Aloni, S.; Schwartzberg, A.M.; Neaton, J.B.; Louie, S.G.; Weber-Bargioni, A.

2016

Article / Charge density wave order in 1D mirror twin boundaries of single-layer MoSe 2

Nature Physics

Barja, S.; Wickenburg, S.; Liu, Z.F.; Zhang, Y.; Ryu, H.; Ugeda, M.M.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.X.; Mo, S.K.; Wong, E.; Salmeron, M.B.; Wang, F.; Crommie, M.F.; Ogletree, D.F.; Neaton, J.B.; Weber-Bargioni, A.

2024

Premio “Jóvenes Talentos” (Grupo de Electroquímica RSEQ, 2024)

Young corresponding member of JAKIUNDE

2023

Departamento del Departamento de Educación e Ikerbasque 2023

2019

Hypatia award “Jovenes talentos” (“Outstanting Women Junior Reasearcher”) by elEconomista

2024

Conference organization | DIPC School and Workshop on Photo and ElectroCatalysis at the Atomic Scale (PECAS 2024)

DIPC School and Workshop on Photo and ElectroCatalysis at the Atomic Scale (PECAS 2024) - Conference organization

Sara Barja (Chair), Nuria López, José Ramón Galán, Sixto Gimenez, Irene Palacio, David Écija, Jordi Arbiol, Pelayo Gracía de Arquer, Maria Escudero-Escribano, María Giménez

Invited talk | Mimicking the Electrolyte-Electrode Interface: A Surface Science Approach

Advanced Spectroscopy for Energy Storage & Conversion Workshop - Invited talk

Sara Barja

Invited talk | An Atomic-Scale Perspective on the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface

XXXIX Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Física RSEF - Invited talk

Sara Barja