Júlia Machado

Júlia Terra is a Marie-Curie PhD researcher at the National University of Ireland in Galway (NUIGalway) developing her PhD in Political Sciences. She holds an Erasmus Mundus MSc. in Water and Coastal Management from the University of Bologna, University of Cádiz, and University of Algarve (2020) and an Environmental Management degree from the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (2018). She has an international and multidisciplinary research background in environmental chemistry, education and management, and in renewable energy-related socio-economic analyses obtained from the research groups she worked in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland. Her current research focuses on the analysis of Green Hydrogen and Green industries development under the European new Green Deal, Covid Recovery Plans, and other EU measures and incentives connected to the cleaner industries-energy transition nexus at a political science angle. Solar2Chem seeks to fill the existing gap in the European industrial landscape in the area of solar chemicals production and usage in technical, economic, and policy aspects.