Yolanda Pico
Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Spain
“Pharma residues and microplastics in Saudi Arabian lakes and pools irrigated with wastewaters: Bioacumulation and plant uptake”
Event: 2nd International Conference on Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (ICRAPHE). Barcelona, Spain.
Partner Organisation: Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA)
Date: 28-29 November 2019
Yolanda Pico’s research involves environmental chemistry, emerging contaminants monitoring, risk assessment, environmental forensics, chromatography, and the identification of degradation products. Her priority research is the development and validation of methods of analysis for the determination of emerging organic contaminants in the environment, the development of methods and models for the control of the routes and the contaminant exposure assessment and the development of tools that improve the knowledge about their impact. She was an evaluator for the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme of the European Union and for the 2020 Horizon as well as serving on the panel of experts for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (2009-2012).
