Environmental Research Institute

• PhD Researcher - Characterization of natural aquatic colloids by optical and electrochemical methods

• Emerging Contaminants & Ecotoxicology
• Biogeochemistry

Qualifications:

• 2006 – Present:
  PhD on multi-method characterization of terrestrial and marine colloids in estuarine systems
• 2006
  First Degree in Environmental Sciences at the University of Barcelona (Spain).
  Degree-Thesis: Textile dye removal from wastewater  using adsorptive ionic exchange membranes

Professional membership:

• Member of the Aquanet and Fluoronet network (NERC)
• Member of the Association of Chemistry and the Environment (ACE)
• Member of the Challenger Society for Marine Sciences (CSMS)
• Member of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB)
• Affiliate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

• Fluorescence, fractionation behavior and iron binding properties of colloidal organic matter from a black water estuary.  10th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium. Xiamen (China). May 2008.
• Optical signatures of marine and terrestrial colloids in the River Thurso Estuary. 8th European Meeting in Environmental Sciences. Inverness, Scotland (UK). December 2007

• Biogeochemistry
• Aquatic chemistry
• Environmental chemistry & toxicology
• Wastewater treatment

• Presentations:
  1. Water Science Forum committee meeting (Royal Society of Chemistry). Oral presentation. London, June 2009
  2. ASLO aquatic meeting sciences. Poster presentation. Nice, January 2009
     *ASLO Student travel award, Challenger Society for Marine Sciences travel award and Alan Tetlow memorial bursary (Water Science Forum, RSC).
  3. UHI Postgraduate conference, Oban, (UK). Poster and oral presentation. November 2008
  4. 1st Scottish Postgraduate Symposium on Analytical Chemistry for the environment. Royal Society of Chemistry, Glasgow, (UK). Poster presentation. August 2008
  5. Fluorescence, fractionation behaviour and iron binding properties of colloidal organic matter from a black water estuary. 10th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium. Xiamen (China). Oral presentation. May 2008
      *Awarded Honorary prize for the best oral presentation
  6. Optical signatures of marine and terrestrial colloids in the river Thurso Estuary. 8th European Meeting in Environmental Sciences. Poster presentation. December 2007
  7. UHI Postgraduate conference, UHI Millenium Institute, Isle of Skye (UK). Poster and oral presentation. June 2007
• Training:
  1. Fluorescence workshop organised inside the AGU Chapman conference on organic matter fluorescence. Birmingham, UK. October 2008
  2. Research effectiveness course. UHI, Inverness (UK). November 2007
  3. Natural aquatic colloids - experimental and modelling training. Organized by AQUANET, University of Loughborough, UK. June 2007
  4. Participation in the ERI internal seminar series.
  5. Participation in the ERI public seminar series.
  6. Participation at ERI team meetings