Anna Jurado Elices

Anna Jurado holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering with a specialization in Groundwater Hydrology (UPC, 2013). At IDAEA-CSIC, her research focuses on improving urban groundwater quality, paying special attention to the natural attenuation processes undergone by contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the subsurface.

Currently, she is involved in 3 research projects as principal investigator (PI) with a predominant emphasis on (1) the identification and quantification of the processes that control the fate of CECs in urban aquifers and (ATTENUATE) (2) proposing solutions to face water scarcity and mitigate climate change (E-HYDRO and WATERCLIMATE). In the same line, she is also participating in two European projects: URBAN M2O and WATER4MED. She also investigated the degradation of CECs during managed aquifer recharge at a lab scale under suboxic conditions in her postdoctoral stage in TU Dresden Germany). Moreover, she was also PI of 4 research projects (ERASE, INTEGRATE, FANATIC and HYDRO) funded by national and European calls. The outcomes of these research projects contribute to the society by improving the availability of fresh water resources (in terms of quality but also quantity) and contributing to the adaptation of climate change (providing tools for improving water management under the current global change).