Mario Martín Gamboa is part of the teaching and research staff of the Rey Juan Carlos University, holds a 'Cesar Nombela' senior research grant of the Regional Government of Madrid and the R3 certificate as established researcher. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Technologies (November 2017), an MSc in Renewable Energies, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen from CSIC in collaboration with UIMP (2014), and a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Rey Juan Carlos University (2013). His main research line is the development and application of advanced methodologies with a life-cycle perspective for the evaluation of sustainability, taking into account environmental, economic, social and technical criteria.
To date, he has participated in more than 20 research projects and contracts at both national and international levels. In particular, he is the principal investigator of (i) the SMARTER project for sustainability monitoring and assessment of raw materials within a clean and responsible energy transition in Spain, (ii) the ASSISTANCE project for evaluating the impact of the Spanish electricity mix transition under a perspective of responsibility and social equity; of (iii) a service contract with the Joint Research Centre to evaluate the social life-cycle impacts of hydrogen technologies and value chains in Europe; and (iv) a service contract “Study on Gender Balance in the R&I Field to Improve the Role of Women in the Energy Transition” for the European Commission’s European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA); and (v) of a service contract with IMDEA Energy Institute to assess the sustainability impact of emerging technologies. Furthermore, he is the researcher who leads the Systems Analysis Work Packages in three of the current projects in which he is involved. Mario Martín Gamboa's leadership ability is also proven in the following merits: i) he is currently coordinator of the Spanish Network for Life Cycle Assessment (esLCA), ii) Associate Editor of the international journal “Cleaner Environmental Systems” (Elsevier), iii) member of the Advisory Board of the European projects InsectERA and gEneSys and iv) member of the scientific committee as well as chair session of the 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management.
Mario Martín Gamboa has published 38 scientific publications (35 scientific publications in JCR journals, 33 of them published in Q1 journals), 4 chapter books and more than 40 contributions to national and international conferences. The total number of citations of his work is 1251 (Scopus) and 1646 (Google Scholar) with an h-index = 24. In the ResearchGate network, his works have received more than 12,300 reads and 243 recommendations for a Research Interest Score of 981.6 (May, 2025). Most of the outcomes from these works has been translated to tools and methods useful for decision-making at different levels, allowing for the prioritization of the most sustainable of options, actions, and strategies. One third of researcher Mario Martin Gamboa's articles are available in open access format while results, materials, reports and datasets from five of the current projects in which he participates are also published in the Zenodo and UniversiDATA repositories. Moreover, over a third of Mario Martin's publications have been collaborative scientific works with international research groups, located in countries such as Switzerland, Poland, Norway, and Portugal. This international recognition is also demonstrates in the following Mario Martín Gamboa’s merits: i) national correspondent for Spain in the service contract “Study on Gender Balance in the R&I Field to Improve the Role of Women in the Energy Transition” for the European Commission’s European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), ii) member of the panel of experts evaluating research project grants for the National Science Centre of Poland and iii) Ambassador of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) of Portugal since February 2022.
As for his experience as a teacher, he has taught more than 1000 teaching hours in official studies and non-official degrees, and he has been guest lecture to the "LCA practicum" course at the Graduate School of Energy and Environment of the Korea University. Furthermore, Mario Martin has taken part in various workshops, highlighting those organized by the Spanish LCA Network, as well as seminars and training courses related to Life Cycle Assessment methodology. He has supervised two doctoral theses within the Industrial Technologies Programme of the Rey Juan Carlos University (one of them on course), and he has participated in the supervision of more than 10 B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses as well as internship students.