Carmen Bedia Girbés

Carmen Bedia is a tenured researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) in Barcelona, specializing in environmental toxicology and chemometrics. Her research focuses on understanding the health effects of human exposure to environmental pollutants. To this end, she employs physiologically relevant cell culture models under a variety of exposure scenarios and evaluates their biological responses using cell biology techniques, lipidomics, and multivariate data analysis.

One of her main research areas is the study of the impact of air pollution from different sources on lung, brain, and skin health. This work integrates the comprehensive characterization of environmental samples, the application of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to assess chemical hazards while reducing reliance on animal testing, and the development of advanced chemometric approaches for data interpretation and mechanistic understanding.