Dr. Susana García received her MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2004, and then her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham (UK) in 2010. Her PhD research focus was on injection of CO2-SO2 mixtures in geological formations for CO2 storage; she designed and assembled the experimental rig to conduct that work and also acquired computational skills to theoretically model that work. These computational skills were developed by collaborations and stays at international and recognized research centres: the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Oregon. The quality of her PhD work was reflected by the awards she received, including the 1st year best PhD report, a Business- Engineering and Science and Travel Scholarship (BESTS) to do an internship at USGS and a Graduate School travel bursary. Moreover, she was selected to attend the US Research experience in carbon sequestration summer school in 2008, being one of the only three non-US students sponsored to attend this workshop organized by the US Department of Energy. She also received the E.ON Prize for outstanding students with innovative ideas and research into sustainable energy as well as the Peer Review Prize in the same E.ON Energy Programme and Competition.

Upon completion of her PhD, she was involved in a collaborative academic-industrial research project for six months, which aimed at investigating and developing innovative CO2 compression system technologies for commercial utility scale CCS, improving on weaknesses in current CO2 compression approaches. After that, she moved to the Spanish National Coal Research Institute (INCAR-CSIC), located in Oviedo (Spain), as a Post-doctoral Research Member. Her research work there was mainly focused on CO2 capture by solid sorbents.