Departamento: Ingeniería Agronómica

Centro: ETS de Ingeniería Agronómica

Instituto: Instituto de Biotecnología Vegetal

Area: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Research group: Ecología y Biotecnología de Suelos

Research group: Edafología Ambiental, Química y Tecnología Agrícola

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Email: hector.conesa@upct.es

Personal web: https://personas.upct.es/perfil/hector.conesa

Doctor by the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena with the thesis Restauración estabilización de suelos contaminados por metales pesados como consecuencia de actividades mineras en la zona de Cartagena y La Unión 2005. Supervised by Dr. Ángel Faz Cano, Dr. Bernd Nowack.

Hector M. Conesa graduated as an Agricultural Engineer at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (2001). He did his Ph.D. between the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH-Zurich). Afterwards, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher for four years at the ETH-Zurich and for one year as an Environmental Engineer at Befesa Gestión de Residuos Industriales, Seville (Spain). He also worked for the CEBAS-CSIC in Murcia. He was awarded with the Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2011-2016). Currently, he works as an Associate Professor the Agronomic Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. His research focuses on soil contamination and remediation including the development of green technologies and the study of soil-plant relationships in polluted semiarid areas. He has led several projects on phytomanagement of mine tailings in semiarid environments. As a professor, he teaches subjects related to soil management, chemistry and environmental pollution.