Carles Hurtado Cervera
Born in Barcelona in 1987. I graduated in 2010 from University of Barcelona with a degree in Chemistry. In the same year, I started a Master in Advanced Chemistry in the Analytical Department at the same university, where I researched sorption of Sulfamethazine in soils amended with Biochar. In 2013, I was awarded a grant from the Spanish Government to work on my Ph.D. thesis at IDAEA. My work is focused on the effects of biochar and nanoparticles on the plant uptake of some pharmaceutical and personal care product (PPCPs). Some of these PPCPs can be translocated by plants into the leaves, our main focus is to study if the large surface of biochar or nanoparticles may reduce this uptake. My last goal is to evaluate the possible metabolism of these compounds in plants. Hence, some instrumental techniques such as GC-MS/MS, GCxGC-ToF and UPLC-MS/MS will be applied.
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Anna Margenat
Born in Sant Cugat, Barcelona (Spain) in 1989. Graduated in 2012 from Institut Químic de Sarrià (Barcelona) with a degree in Chemistry, also graduated in 2015 from University of Barcelona with a Master in Analytical Chemistry, where my research was focused on the development of a method for the extraction and determination of sulfonamides in vegetable matrix by UHPLC-MS/MS.
In 2015, I was awarded a grant from the Spanish Government to work on my Ph.D. thesis at IDAEA -CSIC (Barcelona). The research aims to investigate the impact of chemical pollution due to atmosphere, rain, soil and irrigation water in selected crops (lettuce, artichokes, cabbage, tomato, eggplant and zucchini). This study will be performed in the delta of Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) in a gradient of air pollution and water irrigation of different physico-chemical quality. Persistent organic micropollutants (PAHs, PCBs, DDTs, PFOS, PBDEs, triazine and phenoxy herbicides, pyrethroids), persistent emerging pollutants (carbamazepine, BPA, PFCA, antibiotics), heavy metals (Cu, Ba, Zn, Pb, Hg, Cd) and metalloids (As) will be analyzed.
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In 2015, I was awarded a grant from the Spanish Government to work on my Ph.D. thesis at IDAEA -CSIC (Barcelona). The research aims to investigate the impact of chemical pollution due to atmosphere, rain, soil and irrigation water in selected crops (lettuce, artichokes, cabbage, tomato, eggplant and zucchini). This study will be performed in the delta of Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) in a gradient of air pollution and water irrigation of different physico-chemical quality. Persistent organic micropollutants (PAHs, PCBs, DDTs, PFOS, PBDEs, triazine and phenoxy herbicides, pyrethroids), persistent emerging pollutants (carbamazepine, BPA, PFCA, antibiotics), heavy metals (Cu, Ba, Zn, Pb, Hg, Cd) and metalloids (As) will be analyzed.
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Former PhD Students
Jagos Radovic
I graduated in
2008 from University of Novi Sad (Serbia) with a degree in Chemistry. In 2009 I
was awarded a grant from Spanish National Council of Research (CSIC) to work on
my Ph.D. thesis at IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona. My research interest is focused on
petroleum and its environmental impact. I apply the effect-directed (EDA)
approach, which includes chemical characterization of different oil types and
their fractions, oil weathering studies, and bioassays; aiming to assess the
fate and risks of oil spills in the marine environment. This includes
utilization of different, state of the art instrumental techniques, such as GC-qMS,
GCxGC-ToF, HPLC-ToF, LDI-ToF. The thing I like the most about doing research in
Barcelona, is that this city gives you a great opportunity to relax from the
lab work, and enjoy all the social and cultural events it offers.
Cristal Fernández-Gómez
I was born in Narón, A Coruña (Spain) in 1984. In 2007, I received my
Bachelor Degree on Environmental Sciences from the University of León (Spain).
Then, in 2008, I moved to Barcelona where I am currently enrolled in the
Analytical Chemistry of the Environment and the Pollution doctoral program at
the University of Barcelona. I gained a JAE-predoc fellowship from the CSIC and my research, done at the IDAEA, is focused on the bioavailability
of mercury in fresh water ecosystems. I have recently been working with the Diffusive
Gradients in Thin films (DGT) technique for determining mercury species in
river water. In 2010, during a predoctoral stay at the Chemistry Department of
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (Canada), I broadened my knowledge on
the DGT technique preparing different gels and carrying out several laboratory
and field studies. In 2011 I did another research stay at SLU (University of
Agricultural Sciencies of Sweden) and Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden), to perform
a study about methylmercury photodegradation in the water phase of a boreal
lake-wetland gradient.
