Juan Pablo Esquivel is an Ikerbasque Research Associate at BCMaterials, Basque center for materials, applications & nanostructures. He is also co-founder and Scientific Advisor of the spin-off companies Fuelium & Sweanty. He has been Tenured Scientist at the IMB-CNM (CSIC). He has a PhD in Electronics Engineering from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and was a Senior Fellow at the U. of Washington, under a Marie Curie Fellowship. His work is focused on the development of sustainable power sources, combining engineering, electrochemistry and material science with sustainability principles and a strong product oriented approach. He has received several international prizes and distinctions for his work, such as the Catalonia Ecodesign Prize and the TR35 Mexico award from MIT Technology Review. He has authored more than 100 scientific contributions and is inventor in 13 patents.