Karina Torres-Rivero Andrade
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTEch (UPC), Spain
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Biography
I am Karina Torres-Rivero; currently, I am a Ph.D. student and researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. I am working with the Resource Recovery and Environmental Management (R2EM) investigation group. We are focused on developing new sensors with nanoparticle surface modifications to determine heavy metal contaminants in water. Also, we are studying the nano and microparticles utilization to remediate contaminated soils. My ultimate goal is the possibility to use the modified electrodes for heavy metal determination in acid mine drainage and extract all the available heavy metal content to synthesize chemical and green nanoparticles within the circular economy action plan.