Miren López de Alda Villaizán

5317 mlaqam@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 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, between 1995 and 1998, 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 by LC-MS/MS techniques. Miren López de Alda has participated in 18 national and 22 international I+D projects financed in public calls, being principal investigator (PI) or co-PI in 7 and 6 of them, respectively, and in 24 contracts with companies and/or administrations. She has published 176 SCI papers (Hirsch-index 61) and 30 book chapters, and has presented more than 300 contributions in national and international conferences. She has participated in various scientific and expert EU (Marie Curie, STREP, EURAMET, twinning) and Spanish Committees (ANEP, AENOR, AGAUR, etc.) and has supervised 7 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 recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya as “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 pesticides, anti-cancer drugs and drugs of abuse in the environment, their significance for the environment and human health, and ways to eliminate them.

Miren López de Alda Villaizán – CVA

2017 SGR 01404 – Calidad de aguas y suelos

Suport als grups de recerca consolidats “2017 SGR 01404 – Calidad de aguas y suelos”

Start Date: 01/01/18

WATERPROTECT

WATERPROTECT “Innovative tools enabling drinking WATER PROTECTion in rural and urban environments”

Start Date: 01/06/17

Directiva Marco del Agua – Análisis de compuestos plaguicidas polares en la red de control de les aguas subterráneas.

Start Date: 01/06/17

ESAR-NET

Red Española para el análisis de aguas residuales con fines epidemiológicos (ESAR-NET) (CTM2016-81935-REDT).

Start Date: 01/01/17

BECAS

Development of analytical methodologies for determination of pesticides in water and soils and their application in the evaluation of new environmental bioremediation processes (BECAS) (grant number CTM2016-75587-C2-2-R).

Start Date: 30/12/16

SCORE

Analysis CoRe group Europe (SCORE)-ES1307 Action

Start Date: 14/04/14

GLOBAQUA

European Project

Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity (GLOBAQUA)

Start Date: 01/02/14

2014 SGR 418 – Calidad de aguas y suelos

Suport als grups de recerca consolidats “2014 SGR 418 – Calidad de aguas y suelos”

Start Date: 01/01/14

SOLUTIONS

Solutions for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management

Start Date: 01/10/13

CYTOTHREAT

Fate and effects of cytostatic pharmaceuticals in the environment and identification of biomarkers for an improved risk assessment on environmental exposure (CYTOTHREAT)

Start Date: 01/01/11

ECOTOXTOOLS

Ferramentas ecotoxicológicas para a avaliação do risco ambiental associado a actividades agrícolas, em grandes albufeiras do Sul de Portugal (ECOTOXTOOLS)

Start Date: 01/06/10

ENSAT

Enhancement of Soil Aquifer Treatment to Improve the Quality of Recharge Water in the Llobregat River Delta Aquifer (ENSAT) [009/RNO8/-01.1]

Start Date: 01/01/10

SCARCE

Evaluación y predicción de los efectos del cambio global en la cantidad y la calidad del agua en ríos ibéricos (SCARCE) [CSD2009-00065]

Start Date: 17/12/09

SGR-DGR

Suport als grups de recerca (SGR-DGR (2009-SGR-965.)

Start Date: 01/01/09

CEMAGUA

Estudio de la presencia y destino de Contaminantes Emergentes en AGUAs subterráneas y superficiales y desarrollo de herramientas analíticas para su control medioambiental (CEMAGUA)

Start Date: 01/10/07

SOSTAQUA

Desarrollos tecnológicos hacia un Ciclo del Agua Urbano Autosostenible (SOSTAQUA)

Start Date: 01/01/07

MODELKEY

MODELKEY Models for Assessing and Forecasting the Impact of Environmental Key Pollutants on Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Start Date: 01/02/05

ARTDEMO

Artificial recharge demonstration project (ARTDEMO-EVK1-CT2002-00114).

Start Date: 01/01/02

Estudio de plaguicidas órganoclorados, PCB’s, PCT’s e hidrocarburos en las aguas de consumo público y aguas superficiales de la Comunidad Autónoma Gallega

Start Date: 01/10/90

Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research