Silvia Lacorte
Vice-Director, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain
“Soils, a sink for legacy and emerging pollutants: Impacts in natural areas”
Event: 22nd European meeting on Environmental Chemistry (EMEC 22). Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Partner Organisation: Association of Chemistry and the Environment (ACE)
Date: 5-8 December 2022
Silvia Lacorte got her PhD in Analytical Chemistry in the University of Barcelona (1997), made a post-doc in Lyon, France, and in 1999 became full researcher at the Department of Environmental Chemistry in IDAEA-CSIC. Nowadays, she is vice-director of the IDAEA-CSIC and leads an interdisciplinary research group in the field of analytical and environmental sciences. Her main research interest is to evaluate the presence and impact of legacy and emerging organic contaminants (including microplastics) in the environment and find solutions to mitigate the overwhelming problem of chemical pollution. Studies include (i) development and validation of analytical methods for the determination of organic pollutants including their degradation products in relevant environmental matrices using mass-spectrometric based methods; (ii) water-soil-sediment monitoring to evaluate the sources, distribution and fate of organic contaminants and (iii) integration of chemical and toxicological analysis to evaluate their potential effects in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Special effort is given to the protection of wildlife and natural resources.
