{"id":14789,"date":"2018-03-21T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waterenergynexus.org\/?p=14789"},"modified":"2018-10-24T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:43:08","slug":"damia-barcelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterenergynexus.org\/2023\/damia-barcelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dami\u00e0 Barcel\u00f2"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”14790″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=”14801″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1521663316232{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Born in Men\u00e0rguens (Lleida) in 1954, he obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona<\/strong> (UB) in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Analytic Chemistry from the same university in 1984<\/strong>. He is currently working as a research professor and deputy director<\/strong> of the Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies<\/strong> (IDAEA) in Barcelon<\/strong>a which is run by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He was appointed Director of the Catalan institute for water research (ICRA) in Girona<\/strong> in 2008. During 2010 and 2011. he was the visiting professor at the King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His research career has been focused on the area of water quality<\/strong>, particularly in the development of methods for controlling organic pollution by the so-called \u201cemerging pollutants\u201d<\/strong> (polar pesticides, surfactants \u2013detergents\u2013, endocrine disruptors and pharmaceutical products) in waste and natural water.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2010 he is listed among the most internationally cited scientists (ISI Highly Cited<\/strong>), by the number and the exceptional quality of his publications. According to Scopus he has the Hirsch-Index of 104<\/strong> and total number of citations over 50 thousand<\/strong>. According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 132<\/strong> and the total number of citations is almost 80 thousand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since 1990s he has been editor of various journals<\/strong> (TRAC, Talanta, ABC, Environment International) and book series<\/strong> (Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry and The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry). Since 2012<\/strong> he is the Co-Editor-in-chief of the Science of the Total Environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In 2007, he received the King James I Prize for Environmental Protection<\/strong> (Spain), in 2012 the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water<\/strong> of Saudi Arabia, and in 2012 the Recipharm International Environmental Prize<\/strong>, a Swedish company leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in Europe<\/p>\n

In 2011 he was appointed as Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Board (STB)<\/strong> in the frame of the European Union-Joint Programming Initiative on “Water Challenges for a Changing World<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

In 2014 he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa<\/strong> by the University of Ioannina (Greece).<\/p>\n

As of March 2018, he has been supervisor of 53 PhDs<\/strong>, short and continuous education courses in Universities from Spain, South Korea, Brazil, Greece, Saudi Arabia among others as well as at PITTCON , SETAC and ExTech international conferences.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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