Profile of Héctor Miguel Conesa Alcaraz

Internet Explorer no está soportado por esta aplicación

Recomendamos que instale un navegador más moderno como por ejemplo Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge (Windows 10), Vivaldi, Brave, Opera o Google Chrome. Este sitio web también es compatible con Safari en macOS.

About

Héctor Miguel Conesa Alcaraz is Subdirector del Instituto de Biotecnología Vegetal

PhD in PhD from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (SPAIN) - 2005

Master in Master in Management of Soil Quality and Management from Instituto AMYCA de formación (SPAIN) - 2003

Engineer in Agricultural Engineer from Technical University of Cartagena (SPAIN) - 2001

Assessment of teaching: number of five-year periods assessed positively: 2

Assessment of research: number of six-year periods assessed positively: 3

Héctor M. Conesa graduated as an Agricultural Engineer at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (2001). He did his Ph.D. between the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH-Zurich). Afterwards, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher for four years at the ETH-Zurich and for one year as an Engineer at Befesa Gestión de Residuos Industriales, Seville (Spain). He also worked for the CEBAS-CSIC in Murcia. He was awarded with the Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2011-2016). Currently, he works as a Professor in the Agronomic Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. His research focuses on soil contamination and remediation including the development of green technologies and the study of soil-plant relationships in polluted semiarid areas. He has led several projects on phytomanagement of mine tailings in semiarid environments. As a professor, he teaches subjects related to soil management, chemistry and environmental pollution.