Antoni studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante (Spain), where he graduated as class Valedictorian in 2013. During his undergraduate studies, Toni performed research at the University of Kentucky, Centre for Applied Energy Research, and SABIC Innovative Plastics. Tone pursued his PhD at the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich, where he initiated the development of novel gas diffusion layers with patterned wettability for polymer electrolyte fuel cells under the supervision of Dr Pierre Boillat and Prof. Thomas J. Schmidt. Toni obtained his PhD in November 2016, and his work was recognized with the ETH Zurich Medal 2017 for outstanding PhD thesis and the Electrochemical Society Energy Technology Graduate Student Award 2017. In 2017, Toni joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. At MIT, Toni worked on the development of advanced electrodes for redox flow batteries. The focus on his work was two-fold. First, Toni elucidated the role of electrode microstructure on the performance of the device. The elucidated structure-function relationships are leveraged to design tailored electrodes. Second, Toni explored the role of surface treatments on electrodes to enhance electrochemical kinetics, increase hydrophilicity, and extend durability. Since 2019 he is an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. As a scientific advisor, Toni will closely collaborate with Francisco (see above) in Phase 2 of the project. Both scientists will be working on extracting carbon / electrodes from chitin and will conduct ongoing research and commercial support during the scale-up phases.