Researcher Profiles:
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Urban environmental quality, including monitoring using multiple sensors that provide data that is later analysed with GIS Software. Land Use Planning and Urban Issues such as: urban climate, noise, air pollution and waste management. Environmental management: energy and materials balances, life cycle analysis. +INFO. |
Local and Regional Administration; Food Industries; Industry in general. |
Bioclimatic solutions on traditional architecture. Buildings energetic performance. Rehabilitation and maintenance for bioconstructive diversity. Analisis of the Bioclimatic constructive solutions on traditional buildings and its future integration on contemporary construction techniques. +INFO. |
Construction companies. |
Structural Engineering: solid mechanics, computational mechanics and structures, use of different numerical and analytical models, and advanced computational simulation. Safety engineering. +INFO. |
Mechanical Engineering; Structural Engineering; Civil Engineering. |
Development of sustainable materials from renewable sources and/or with functional properties: polymer synthesis and characterization, materials and chemicals from biomass, microencapsulation, functional coatings, biodegradable products. +INFO. |
Footwear; Food; Cosmetic; Textile; Adhesives. |
Nanostructured materials and heterogeneous catalysis. Development and characterization of catalysts for application in environmental catalysis and energy production (biofuels). Development of new liquid-phase treatment technologies based in advanced oxidation processes. +INFO. |
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Soil processes monitoring and sustainability in uplands: assessment and monitoring of soil degradation processes, including physical degradation, erosion, quantitative and qualitative runoff water losses, soil carbon stocks, quality and resilience, for sustainable management of upland agroecosystems, with field appraisal methods, model and lab supported. +INFO. |
Viticulture; Olive production and forest sectors; Animal production sector (authoctonous cattle breeds). |
Wildlife management and public welfare: wildlife-habitat relationships in mediterranean areas, ungulate feeding behaviour and diet. Forest and land birds comunities characterisation, bird ringing, environmental education and human activity impacts on wild areas. +INFO. |
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Performance assessments, data mining, data analysis and statistic methods and demand planning. +INFO. |
Health; Retail; Energy; Mobility; Manufacturing. |
Measuring GHG and air pollutants fluxes through the atmosphere/vegetation/soil system, by means of micrometeorological (eddy covariance, concentration gradient) and chamber methods. Monitoring and modeling air pollution and air quality. Studies on carbon cycle and dynamics, especially related to CO2 and H2O exchange measurements in soil/vegetation/atmosphere system, both in urban and rural environments. Studies on urban system issues, with special focus on environmental functions of urban green spaces. life cycle analysis of food products. +INFO. |
Local and Regional Administration; Food Industries;
Industry in general.
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