Patricia Córdoba Sola
Description
Patricia completed her PhD at IDAEA-CSIC, where her research focused on the partitioning and fate of trace elements in full-scale power plants equipped with wet limestone flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) systems. She is an expert in Environmental Geochemistry and Engineering, with a particular emphasis on the speciation and distribution of inorganic trace pollutants, as well as the recovery and valorisation of industrial residues, by-products, and critical raw materials.
Her research spans a broad range of industrial systems, including flue gas desulphurisation units, wastewater treatment plants, recycling facilities, copper primary production, and semiconductor manufacturing. Across these contexts, she investigates the behaviour, transformation, and environmental fate of inorganic trace contaminants, with a strong focus on circular economy strategies and sustainable resource management.
She has served as Principal Investigator of two European projects, RECOPP Fast Track (H2020-EIT/189883) and RECOPPs Upscaling (Horizon Europe-EIT/20076), and is currently Principal Investigator of the national project ACCRIR (PID2024-158531OB-I00), funded under the Spanish Knowledge Generation Programme. She is also supervising three doctoral theses.
She is responsible for the Industrial Pollution and Resource Recovery research line and laboratories 1402–1403 at IDAEA-CSIC and holds R3 certification (CR32024-046657). Her work contributes to advancing sustainable industrial processes through the integration of environmental chemistry, process engineering, and recovery of secondary and critical raw materials.
