ABOUT US

We are a multidisciplinary team
of professionals

From the fields of environmental management and restoration, waste water treatment and scientific research with the shared goal of improving the management and quality of rivers altered by human activity by better understanding how they work.

Eugènia Martí Roca

Senior Scientist at CEAB-CSIC

PhD in Biology, her research focuses on the biogeochemistry of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in rivers and riparian zones, the hydrological and biological interactions between these two ecosystems and how global change, especially urban activity, affects these processes.

Albert Sorolla Edo

Technical Director at Naturalea

Bachelor in Biology, his professional activity focuses on the management and restoration of the landscape. He is an expert in Bioengineering. He is the Vice President of the Spanish Association of Landscape Engineering (AEIP) and member on-board of the European Soil & Water Engineering Group (ESWEG).

Esperança Garcia Passola

Senior Scientist at CEAB-CSIC

PhD in Biology, her research focuses on the study of the structure, dynamics and function of aquatic communities and ecosystems dominated by plants in coastal waters, wetlands and inland waters (rivers and lakes).

Francesc Sabater Comas

Tenured Lecturer at the University of Barcelona

PhD in Biology, his research focuses on the biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems and the processing of dissolved organic matter in stream ecosystems. He is the Head of the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona as well as the Head of Centre de Recerca d’Alta Muntanya (CRAM-Vielha).

Miquel Ribot Bermejo

Research technician at CEAB-CSIC

PhD in Biology, his research focuses on stream biogeochemistry and more specifically how human activity affects the capacity of streams and rivers to process nutrients, mainly nitrogen and carbon.

Sara Castelar Delgado

Research technician at CEAB-CSIC

Bachelor in Biology, her research is focused on fluvial biogeochemical processes and how aquatic plants and microbial communities may improve water quality in streams receiving WWTP effluents.

Xavier Romero

Head of River Ecology at the Consorci Besós Tordera

Biologist with extensive experience in natural environment management and river restoration, he has contributed to projects such as LIFE Alnus, EUROSCAPES, CEMOWAS2, INTERLACE, and Coconat 25. He currently works on river conservation and rehabilitation, promoting nature-based solutions and applying knowledge generated by the URL and European projects such as NBS4DOUGHT, Med-IREN, and DECIRE WATER.

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Sandra Valero

Innovation Technician at the Consorci Besós Tordera

Degree in Environmental Sciences, specialized in WWTP operation, with experience in environmental management, wastewater treatment, and R&D projects at regional, national, and European levels. She contributes to projects such us Med-IREN,  PROMISCES, REGENAQUA, and DECIRE WATER, focusing on nature-based solutions, water regeneration, energy efficiency and circular economy.

Begoña Martínez

Head of the Ecology Department at Besòs Tordera Consortium

Xavier Triadó Margarit

Postdoctoral Researcher at CEAB-CSIC

PhD in Biology, his research is within the scope of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology, mainly of aquatic and aerial environments, but also of the microbiota of animals. His current research activities are focused on the study of diversity, dynamics, and functional and adaptive aspects of microbial communities in natural environments.

Emili O Casamayor

Research Professor at CEAB-CSIC.

PhD in Microbial Ecology, investigates the environmental microbiome and the ecological and evolutionary laws that govern it and how biodiversity and biogeochemistry modulate each other, using tools of molecular biology, genomics and ecoinformatics and the conceptual framework of general ecology.

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