Jelena Radjenovic

Jelena Radjenovic graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2004. She obtained a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2009. From 2009 to 2014 she was working at the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2014, Jelena relocated to the Catalan Institute for Water Research in Girona, Spain, with a Marie-Curie fellowship.

Since 2018, she is an ICREA Research Professor. She was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant ELECTRON4WATER in 2016 to develop new nanostructured electrode materials for electrochemical water treatment. In 2023, she was awarded with ERC Proof of Concept grant GRAPHEC to upscale the technology developed and patented within the ELECTRON4WATER project, focused on electrochemical destruction of PFAS using graphene sponge electrodes. This technology is now forging a path towards commercialization through a European Innovation Council (EIC) grant FOREVER WATER. In the ERC Consolidator grant ELECTROmonoLITH, Jelena´s group is working on the development of new electrode materials for selective electrochemical separation and recovery of lithium and other metals from industrial wastewaters and brines. Jelena´s research interests are at the interface of electrochemistry, nanotechnology, (waste)water treatment and chemistry, focused on the development of advanced treatment systems for energy-efficient removal of persistent and toxic pollutants from water and resource recovery.