Marcelo Carmo completed his B. A. (2001) and Ph. D. (2008) at Sao Paulo University, Brazil. He was post-doctoral fellow at the Technological Research Institute of Sao Paulo from 2008 to 2009, post-doctoral associate at Yale University from 2009 to 2011, and at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 2011 to 2014. In Jülich he also worked as a group leader on the development of MEAs for PEM water electrolysis, and as head of the Electrochemistry Electrolysis Department. He has served as visiting scholar at many institutions such as IPEN (Brazil), HIAT and TU Darmstadt (Germany), Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), and National Renewable National Lab – NREL in the U.S.A. In 2019 he was appointed acting director of the Electrochemical Process Engineering Institute (IEK-14) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. His current research interests include fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical devices, mainly water electrolysis and fuel cells. Among other areas, it includes the development of novel nanostructures and components development of advanced characterisation and fabrications methods, and scaling-up of electrochemical cell components.