Carolina Fernández González defended her doctoral thesis “Novel nanocomposite membranes for a sustainable desalination”, developed in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria under the supervision of Dr. Raquel Ibáñez and Dr. Antonio Domínguez, last June 30th, 2017. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Arturo Romero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Prof. Ane Urtiaga (Universidad de Cantabria) and Prof. Nalan Kabay (Ege University).