Nuevas tendencias en restauración de suelos degradados: tecnosuelos y fitorremediación

Juan Vilela es Ingeniero de Montes por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y Master en Arquitectura del Paisaje por la State University of New York at Syracuse. Ha trabajado en numerosos proyectos de planificación y restauración del paisaje con base ecológica, tanto desde la administración pública (Centro de Estudios Ambientales (2004-2005), Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz (2009-actualidad) como desde el ámbito privado (POA paisajismo, 2005-2009). Ha sido responsable de la gestión forestal del municipio de Vitoria-Gasteiz y en la actualidad centra su actividad en proyectos de investigación aplicada a la gestión municipal, tanto en la ordenación del territorio (itinerarios de paisaje, vías verdes,...) como en la ejecución de proyectos (tecnosuelos y restauración de espacios degradados).

Dr. Becerril is a Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Dpt. Plant Biology and Ecology at University of the Basque Country (Spain). He obtained his PhD in Biology in 1987 (CSIC-UPV/EHU). As a Fulbright fellow he spent 2 years (1988-1989) as a Postdoc in Mississippi, USA with Dr. Stephen O. Duke working on mode of action of pesticide and ecotoxicity of agrochemicals. Dr. Becerril leads the EKOFISKO Research Group (Plant Stress Ecophysiology & Contamination) composed by 6 PhD and 2 PhD students and is the head of the Master in Environmental Agrobiology. Dr. Becerril focuses his research on variety of methodological tools that have been implemented in several areas of applied research.

Dr. Bert is a researcher in the Clean and Sustainable Technologies and Processes Unit of the Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risquesthe (INERIS). She obtained her PhD degree in Phytoaccumulation at University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France (2000). She has worked as a teacher at the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (2000), as a postdoctoral researcher at the free university of Brussels (2000-2002) and as a researcher at the National Research Centre on polluted sites and soils (CNRSSP), France (2002-2006). She has published >14 papers in more than 5 journals about phytoremediation, environmental pollution, soil biology, microbiology, environmental management, biomass and bioenergy, Botany and Soils. Nowadays, she research in the field of phytotechnologies and biomass valorization. She is a project and working group leader, the responsible for the monitoring of several field sites and the supervisor of PhD and master students.

Dr. Besga is an Agricultural Engineer (Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1980) and PhD in Soil Science (University of California, Davis, 1987). His is currently the Technological Director of NEIKER-Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development. His scientific career focuses on applications of soil science to the implementation of nutrient use efficiency as well as the implementation and of good agricultural practices to gain efficiency in the use of the resources (fertilizers and pesticides) and the energy (fuel and energy), increasing the soil health while minimizing the impacts of the agrifood systems. He has worked in developing Life Cycle Analysis for various agricultural subsectors to control from a systemic approach agricultural systems impacts on environment. He has also worked in the development of technosols for restoring soil functions in degraded areas as a consequence of quarrying.

Dr. Garbisu is the Head of the Department of Conservation of Natural Resources at NEIKER-Tecnalia, The Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development (Spain), where he leads the Soil Microbial Ecology Group (http://www.soilmicrobialecology.com). He obtained his PhD degree in Biology at King’s College London (1992). Then, he carried out postdoctoral studies in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country (1992-1993, 1996-1997) and in the Department of Plant Biology of the University of California at Berkeley (1993-1996). He has published more than 100 international papers (h-index=28; total number of citations: >2600), >145 communications to congresses, led more than 30 research projects, and taught a great deal of courses at the university level. He has participated in many scientific committees and acted as project evaluator for many organizations.

Dr. Kidd is a tenured scientist of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (Spain). She obtained her PhD degree in Biology at University of Stirling (UK) in 1999. She obtained two fellowships from the European Science Foundation and worked in Plant Adaptation Programme (1999-2001) and Soil and Groundwater Programme (2001). Then, she worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow in the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2001-2003), and in the CSIC (Spain) as an Isidro Parga Pondal (2003-2005) and Ramón y Cajal (2005-2007) postdoctoral researcher. She has published 37 international refereed scientific journals according to Scopus (h-index= 14; total number of citations: 877), >90 communications at conferences, >20 M.Sc. theses and B. Sc. projects supervised and 3 PhD student supervised till defence of thesis.

Paula Castro is Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor with Habilitation at Universidade Católica Portugesa, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (UCP-ESB). She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University College London. She takes currently the position of Member of the Direction Board of UCP-ESB. She is the Leader of the Group “Environmental Mitigation Tools and Strategies” of the Research Center CBQF-Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry of UCP-ESB. She is actively involved in research in environmental science and engineering, especially biotechnology, including soil requalification and phytoremediation and sustainable practices in agro-forestry, among others, having more than 150 scientific publications in indexed journals. She has wide experience in the coordination of national and international research programmes as well as several programmes with industrial partners.

El Dr. Macías es catedrático de Edafología y Química Agrícola de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC). Ha sido profesor interino (1971), Adjunto (1978), Agregado (1980) y Catedrático de Edafología y Química Agrícola de la USC (1984). En 2005 y 2006 impartió clases del curso de Geoquímica ambiental en el Tercer Ciclo Universitario de Sao Paulo (Brasil). También ha sido profesor del programa de postgrado”River restoration: Principles and Practices” en la universidad de Minho (Braga, Portugal) en 2010-2011, 2012-13 y 2014-15 y profesor de cursos de master y doctorado en las Universidades de Santiago, Murcia, Oviedo, Nancy, París, Rennes, Sao Paulo, Minho y Vigo. En total, ha realizado 6 quinquenios de docencia universitaria reconocida y 6 sexenios de investigación reconocidos, donde ha sido autor de más de 250 publicaciones, investigador principal de más de 100 proyectos de investigación financiados por administraciones y empresas y director de 34 Tesis Doctorales.

Dr. Michel MENCH is a tenured senior scientist of the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA), in the Dept of Forest, Grassland and Freshwater Ecology (UMR BIOGECO). He has the ability to supervise researches and is qualified on the list of professor (Biology of populations). He started to work in 1983 on trace elements in the soil-plant system. He obtained his PhD degree in Agronomic sciences at National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, France (1985). He has published 123 peer-review papers in scientific journals (h-index: 37; number of citations: 3817), more than 300 oral communications at international conferences and supervised 13 PhD thesis. Since 1992, he is working on the phytoremediation and phytomanagement of trace element-contaminated soils. He was WP leader in the FP7 Project, GREENLAND (Gentle Remediation of Trace Element Contaminated Land, 2010-2014).

Dr. Santos is a researcher of the Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Unit (Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Universidade de Lisboa). She obtained her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior de Agronomia/Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) in 2016 which was also co-supervised by Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She worked as a researcher and lecturer in BSc of Environmental Management, BSc of Bio-Resources Management, BSc of Sustainable Tourism and/or BSc of Touristic Management (2004-2015) and in MSc of Environmental Management (2009-2011) at the Instituto Superior Dom Alfonso III (INUAF). She also was coordinator of BSc of Bio-resources Management and Sustainable Tourism in 2007-2014 and Member of the Pedagogical Council of the INUAF (2007-2015). In 2006-2014, she was executive coordinator of the Office of Environmental Assessment and Planning (2006-2015).