Alicia M. Manjon Sanz

Alicia Manjon Sanz is a materials chemist and joined ORNL in 2020 as Neutron Scattering Scientist working at the powder neutron diffractometer POWGEN at the Spallation Neutron Source.

Her research interests lie on synthesis and elucidating the structure-property relationships of technologically important materials as well as nanocrystalline Metal Organic Frameworks using scattering techniques.

Alicia Manjon Sanz is the recipient of the 2024 ORNL Early Career Competition Award for her proposal on “Designing Sustainable Materials for Energy Applications”. The goal of this project is to synthesize, and process sustainable piezoelectric materials and investigate their structure-property relationships using neutron powder diffraction techniques guided by computational approaches.