Full Research Professor at IDAEA-CSIC, Department of Environmental Chemistry. Previously he devoted 17 years to the public management of water quality aspects in the Catalan Water Agency. His research interests are focused on all quality aspects of the water cycle, including the relationships between chemistry and ecology, ecotoxicology, wastewater treatment and risk assessment and the development of new analytical methods for the characterization of the degradation of organic materials in the environment. He has supervised 2 PhD. He has participated in 22 research projects both European (FP6, FP7 and H2020) and national. He has more than 94 papers published in SCI journals (h-index index 35), edited 4 books, 29 book chapters and 9 patents.