Marta Carballa

Associate Professor

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Associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Chemical engineer (USC, 2001) and PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (USC, 2005). She got a contract for Young Researchers at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile) from March 2006 till April 2007, and in May 2007, she joined the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology of Ghent University (Belgium) as postdoctoral researcher till August 2009. In September 2009, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at USC as postdoctoral researcher under Isidro Parga Pondal fellowship. Her current research interests include: target volatile fatty acid production by mixed culture anaerobic fermentation and biotransformation mechanisms of organic micropollutants during biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes. In the last 5 years, she has participated in 8 international research projects (1 as coordinator and 3 as principal investigator), 2 national research projects (1 as principal investigator), 4 regional research projects and 6 research contracts with companies (1 as principal investigator). All this activity has led to: 10 doctoral theses (4 in progress), 13 book chapters, >100 papers in high-impact indexed journals, 8 articles in non-indexed journals, and ~ 175 presentations at congresses, with ~ 100 oral presentations. >