Miren López de Alda Villaizán
934006134 - int: 437906
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 pesticide etc.), 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. She has published 210 SCI papers (H-index=70, > 14,000 citations, 69 citations per article on average), 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 second position within the category of environmental sciences (with a Fh of 1.18). Since 2002 she has participated as expert in numerous European (Marie Curie, STREP, EURAMET, twinning, IMI, EPA) 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 (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). 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). 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.
PROMISCES
Preventing Recalcitrant Organic Mobile Industrial chemicalS for Circular Economy in the Soil-sediment-water system
PROMISCES will identify how industrial pollution prevents the deployment of the circular economy in the EU and which strategies help overcome key bottlenecks to deliver the ambitions of the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. Funded as an H2020 project, PROMISCES considers specific circular economy routes including (i) semi-closed water cycles for drinking water supply at urban and catchment scale; (ii) wastewater reuse for irrigation in agriculture; (iii) nutrient recovery from sewage sludge; (iv) material recovery from dredged sediment and (v) land remediation for safe reuse in urban areas.
Start Date: 01/11/2021 – End Date: 30/04/2025
Project Leader: Miren López de Alda Villaizán , Víctor Matamoros Mercadal
Funding: European Project
https://promisces.eu/
MAGO
MAGO is the new 3-year PRIMA-funded project that aims at developing Mediterranean wAter management solutions for a sustainable aGriculture supplied by an Online collaborative platform. The project kicked off on the 1st of May, 2021. The overarching objective of the project is to make this connection between research results and real market needs and end-user demands, in the field of food security and water management in the Mediterranean region, especially focusing on the challenge of climate change. MAGO will develop WEMED, a collaborative platform with WEb applications for agriculture in the MEDiterranean.
It will introduce novel participatory processes for better water and innovation governance, enhance monitoring and modelling for better water use efficiency and soil conservation, and improve planning and operation of wastewater reuse systems in agriculture.
Funded by EC, PRIMA (Horizon 2020)
Start Date: 01/04/2021 – End Date: 31/03/2024
Project Leader: Miren López de Alda Villaizán
Funding: European Project
https://www.mago-prima.eu/
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).