Miren López de Alda Villaizán
5317
miren.lopezdealda@idaea.csic.es
ORCID:
0000-0002-9347-2765
Research group: Water, Environmental and Food Chemistry (ENFOCHEM)
Miren López de Alda Villaizán is PhD in Pharmacy by the University of Santiago de Compostela and currently works in Barcelona (Spain) as Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) that is part of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Previous to this, she worked for three years as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland, USA. Her main field of expertise is the environmental analysis of emerging contaminants (estrogens, endocrine disrupting compounds, illicit drugs, cytostatics, polar pesticides…), field where she has contributed many novel analytical methods and data in relation to their occurrence, risks for the environment and human health, and ways to eliminate them. Miren López de Alda has participated in 19 national and 22 international I+D projects financed in public calls, being principal investigator (PI) or co-PI in 8 and 7 of them, respectively, and in 37 contracts with companies and/or administrations (22 as IP or co-IP). She has published 205 SCI papers (Hirsch-index 68, > 13.000 citations, 59 citations per article on average) and 30 book chapters, and has presented more than 300 contributions in national and international conferences. She is included in the list of the most relevant Spanish female researchers, where she occupies the first position within the category of environmental sciences (with a Fh of 1.15). Since 2002 she has participated as expert in numerous European (Marie Curie, STREP, EURAMET, twinning, IMI) and Spanish Committees (ANEP, AENOR, AGAUR, etc.) and has been member of various scientific and organizing committees of international conferences. She is also member of various national and international societies (SECYTA, SEEM, SEE), nets (ESAR-NET, The Water Network, NORMAN Network), and scientific journal editorial boards (Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, World Journal of Methodology, Aperito Journal of Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems, International Journal of Pharma Sciences and Scientific Research (IJPSR), Journal of Applied Sciences, Methods & Protocols, Water). She has supervised 9 doctoral Thesis plus various DEA, TFG, and Masters. Her investigations on emerging contaminants (especially those related to the study of estrogenic compounds and drugs of abuse) have appeared in numerous occasions in the public media (press, radio, TV). Internet entries for “miren lopez de alda” related to her work have reached around 95.000. Since 2014, she leads the consolidated research group “Water and Soil Quality Unit” (“2014 SGR 418” and “2017 SGR 01404”) which is integrated by 27 members (14 of them doctors) bound through either permanent or temporal contracts to IDAEA-CSIC, plus a variable number of graduate, MsC and PhD students. Mid-to-long term scientific–technical interests and objectives of her research agenda focus on the study of currently used pesticides, anti-cancer agents, drugs of abuse, and other anthropogenic contaminants, such as those included in the Watch List of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), and their transformation products, as environmental contaminants (including their occurrence, significance for the environment and human health, and ways to eliminate them), and on sewage-based epidemiology, water reuse and management, and contamination of the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions as transversal areas of study and application.
MAGO
The aim of MAGO (Mediterranean wAter management solutions for a sustainable aGriculture supplied by an Online collaborative platform) is to demonstrate novel solutions to enhance integrated water resources management (IWRM) for a sustainable agriculture in the Mediterranean Region. These solutions, which will be demonstrated in Tunisia, Spain, France and Lebanon, will boost water use efficiency in agriculture, the use of alternative water resources, and climate change adaptation (CCA). These solutions will build upon (1) a novel participatory approach with end-users and stakeholders and (2) a new online collaborative platform for researchers and entrepreneurs for delivering web applications.
Funded by EC, PRIMA (Horizon 2020)
Start Date: 01/04/2021 – End Date: 31/03/2024
Project Leader: Miren López de Alda Villaizán
Funding: International Project
ESAR-Net 2.0
Exploración de las aguas residuales como indicador complementario, rápido y objetivo sobre el consumo de sustancias de abuso.
The main aim of this project is to implement the sewage water based epidemiology as a tool, complementary to the classic epidemiological indicators, to estimate the consumption of substances of abuse, including illegal (cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy), legal (alcohol and tobacco), and new psychoactive substances, in Spain. The objective is to include in the study a large number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) giving service to different types of populations (in terms of size and main economic activity), located in different autonomous communities, representing a large part of the Spanish population. The research team includes 33 researchers from 12 different centers, many of which have already worked together, and with public entities such as the Observatory European Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the Spanish Observatory on Drugs and Addictions, on this issue through the ESAR-Net network
Funded by: Ministerio de Sanidad. Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (Exp. Núm. 2020I009).
Start Date: 01/01/2021 – End Date: 31/12/2023
Project Leader: Miren López de Alda Villaizán
Funding: National Project
https://www.esarnet.es/
FitoFarmGest
Análises de pesticidas em águas, solos e plantas, no âmbito do projeto FITOFARMGEST
This project aims at the sustainable management of phytopharmaceuticals in olive groves, vineyards and arable crops, in the area of influence of the Alqueva Multiple Purpose Enterprise (EFMA), through evaluation of their dynamics, monitoring of their use to ensure a better degree of protection for the human population and ecosystems, and development of a Manual of Good Practices contributing to the improvement of the quality of production, protection and conservation of soil and water resources.
Funded by: Instituto Politécnico de Beja/Fondo Europeo Agrícola de Desarrollo Rural.
Start Date: 01/03/2019 – End Date: 31/12/2021
Project Leader: Miren López de Alda Villaizán
Funding: European Project
https://www.fitofarmgest.com/
2017 SGR 01404
Water and Soil Quality Unit
This is a recognition granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya to the Consolidated Research Group (CRG) Water, Environmental and Food Chemistry Unit (ENFOCHEM, former Water and Soil Quality Unit) that gives support to the group research activities. The research carried out by the group focuses on the study of the origin, transport and fate of organic pollutants (both priority and emerging) in the environment, with the objective to better understand the sources and processes that control their distribution, as well as their possible adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.
Funding to support scientific activities of consolidated research groups in Catalonia
Funding: Generalitat de Catalunya - Suport als grups de recerca