Joselyn Del Pilar Albaladejo is a Puerto Rican scientist that focus design, fabrication and understanding of solid state functional materials for energy and environmental applications. Del Pilar completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) and moved to Columbus, OH to complete a masters and doctorate degree in chemistry. Her graduate work focused on the synthesis of cobalt oxyhydroxides photocatalysts supported on zeolite surfaces for artificial photosynthetic systems. She later completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Iowa State University where she studied inorganic nanocrystal synthesis, surface modification and single-source precursors focusing primarily on copper chalcogenide. After a time a year as an Assistant Professor in Texas A&M University-San Antonio, she returned to her native Puerto Rico. In 2019 she returned to UPR-RP where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M). This experience allowed her to become a PREM-CIE2M Co-PI and research thrust leader. Del Pilar joined the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez as an assistant professor of materials chemistry in Fall 2021. Her research group aims to contribute to the understanding of nanoscale material structure-property relationships for energy and environmental applications and apply this knowledge to nano-synthetic methods for material functionality modulation. In her off time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and two puppies. She strongly believes education is critical to society and advocates for an accessible and high-quality public education system. Del Pilar is a special education advocate passionate about helping neurodivergent students get the right education.