Victoria Flexer

Victoria Flexer is a principal research fellow from CONICET, the National Scientific and Technical Council of Argentina and a Professor of Electrochemical Engineering at the National University of Jujuy. Victoria holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She established her own research group in Jujuy, Argentina, where she has helped create a new research centre right next to the Lithium Triangle, where the largest lithium deposits in brines are found. Currently, her research focuses on two topics. Firstly, she works in the development of new brine processing technologies for the sustainable recovery of lithium salts from high salinity and complex brines. These direct lithium extraction technologies (DLE) are based on electro-membrane processes, adsorption processes and thermal processes. The aim is to develop processing technologies that are able to recover several products and freshwater from brines, in addition to critical lithium salts. Her research group also works on the study of electrochemical processes on lithium batteries. She conducted post-doctoral work in CNRS (Bordeaux, France) and the University of Queensland (Australia), and was a Marie Curie Fellow at Ghent University (Belgium).