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UPCT doctor María Nazaret González Alcaraz has obtained funding from the European Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Horizon 2020 Program to develop a research project on Toxicity of Contaminated Soils and Climate Change.
The work will be carried out between the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) between 2017 and 2018.
The project to be developed by the researcher in the next two years has been one of the selected from a total of 6,703 submitted to the program Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the most prestigious of the European Union for young researchers, which has a project rate Granted less than 15% of those requested.
The work continues the line of research initiated during his postdoctoral stay in Amsterdam and will focus on investigating the toxicity of soils from environments subjected to multiple stressors under different climate change scenarios using edaphic invertebrates as bioindicators.
The project will employ novel techniques of chemical analysis, such as the internal concentration of pollutants in edaphic invertebrates;
Biochemical, with enzymatic biomarkers of oxidative stress and neurotoxicity;
And molecular analysis, reviewing DNA damage and gene expression.
At the end of 2006, Nazaret González joined the Research Group on Environmental Edafology, Chemistry and Agricultural Technology of the School of Agronomists of the UPCT and held his doctorate with an FPU grant from the Ministry of Education and Science under the direction of Dr. José Álvarez Rogel and Héctor Miguel Conesa Alcaraz.
Defended the doctoral thesis in 2012 obtaining the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate.
During that period, he also attended the Master's Degree in Advanced Techniques in Agri-Food Research and Development of ETSIA, obtaining the Extraordinary Prize of this Master in 2013.
After the doctorate he obtained a postdoctoral scholarship from the Ramón Areces Foundation, which allowed him to spend three years in the Vrije Universiteit de Amsterdam specializing in Soil Ecotoxicology.
This work has allowed to incorporate a new line of research to the group of edaphology of the UPCT, in collaboration with Dr. Kees van Gestel, one of the largest European specialists in Ecotoxicology, who visited in 2014 Polytechnic and areas contaminated by mining waste in The Sierra Minera of La Unión-Cartagena.
During the two years that Nazaret will pass between Aveiro and Amsterdam will continue participating in the projects that are developed in the UPCT and directing its third doctoral thesis.
At the same time, she will work on the preparation of new projects for European calls, such as ERC Starting Grant, and nationals, such as Ramón y Cajal, to try to rejoin the UPCT at the end of her stay Marie Skóodowska-Curie.
Source: UPCT
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