Institute of Environmental
Assessment and Water Research

The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) offers three PhD FPI fellowships within the Severo Ochoa accreditation of excellence. These fellowships are 4-year predoctoral contracts from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation call “Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2022”.

The application period will be open from 12 to 26 January 2023 at 14:00h (CET). Before applying to the call, please contact the supervisors.

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The following list contains the IDAEA projects and their supervisors:

• The role of monoterpenes in the beneficial effects of the forest bathing on human health: characterizing the neuromodulatory and neuroprotective effects of different monoterpene mixtures.
  This project aims to test the neuromodulatory and neuroprotective effects of different mixtures of monoterpenes, representing the most relevant profiles of these chemicals found in the Spanish forests. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) will be used in this project, as this organism is a vertebrate model widely used in neuropharmacology and there are already some reports supporting the use of these model for testing the effect of individual monoterpenes on the vertebrate central nervous system.
  Supervisors: Demetrio Raldúa and Roger Seco
  Code: CEX2018-000794-S-20-3
• Water pollution caused by oil extraction activities in Amazonia: effects on biodiversity and the indigenous communities.
  In this thesis, we will characterize the chemical composition of the injected waters, but also the groundwater and surface waters in nearby rivers and streams in oil extraction areas of the Western Amazon. The aim is to analyze its potential effects on biodiversity through a combination of multiple techniques: exposure and bioaccumulation of pollutants in wildlife, effect biomarkers, environmental DNA, and traditional ecological knowledge obtained from indigenous communities.
  Supervisors: Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles and Ana López
  Code: CEX2018-000794-S-20-2
• Contaminants of Emerging Concern in urban aquifers: Are they hampering the use of groundwater as drinking water?
  The PhD student will evaluate the ecotoxicity of organisms exposed to urban groundwater to identify contaminants of emerging concern that are drivers of toxicity, and he/she will quantify the hydrogeochemical processes that control their fate in UGW. Firstly, the candidate will use Effect-Directed Analysis as a reliable tool to be applied in the quality assessment of water systems.
  Supervisors: Anna Jurado and Victoria Osorio
  Code: CEX2018-000794-S-20-1