Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya is Director of the Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin since 2017. She received her PhD in solid state physics from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in 2001. Her postdoctoral research took her to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA). In 2004 she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida (UCF) as Assistant Professor becoming a full professor in 2012. From 2013-2017 she worked as Professor of Physics at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany).

She is the author of 286 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, and 8 patents and serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Catalysis and the Chemical Reviews journal. She has been supervising 87 postdoctoral fellows and 39 PhD students.