Mercedes Maroto-Valer is a Spanish engineer who is Champion and Director of the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC).
Maroto-Valer is Deputy Principal (Global Sustainability) at Heriot-Watt University.
She is also director[1] of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) [2] at Heriot-Watt University, where she holds the Robert Buchan Chair in Sustainable Energy Engineering.
[3] RCCS that is a multidisciplinary centre delivering innovation for the wider deployment of low-carbon energy systems required for meeting net-zero targets.
[citation needed] She received the 2009 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering [5]