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· Ph. D. in MARINE SCIENCES. 26 February 1999. Department of Chemistry. University of Las Palmas G.C.

· BA in MARINE SCIENCES. July 1993.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY IN ACADEMIA

· Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) (Jan 14- )

· Research fellow at the Department of Chemistry of the UIB. Position funded by the “Ramon y Cajal” program of the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry. (Jan 09 – Dec 13).

· Post doctoral researcher at IMEDEA (CSIC, Mallorca, Spain). Other duties: assistant for the Work Package 8 of the European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS). (May 2008 – Dec 2008).

· Honorary research assistant at the University of Liverpool. (Jan 08 – Apr 08).

· Senior research assistant at the Earth and Ocean Department of the University of Liverpool. Position funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (Aug 2004 – Aug 2007)

· Assistant lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mineral, Analytical and Applied Chemistry of the University of Geneva. Position funded by the European Union project BIOSPEC (Apr 2003 – Aug 2004).

· Research associate in the Oceanography Laboratories of the University of Liverpool. Position funded by the European Union project COMET (Jun 2000 – Mar 2003).

· Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Las Palmas G.C. Topic: Chemistry of aquatic solutions (Mar – May 2000).

· Technical support at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Las Palmas G.C. Development and set up of a spectrophotometric method for the online analysis of pH in seawater (Mar 1999).

· Postgraduate fellowship for research and teaching training in the Department of Chemistry of the University de Las Palmas de G.C. Funded by the University of Las Palmas G.C. (Oct 1994 - Sept 1997).

OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISES

· Southern Ocean cruise EDDY PUMP (R.V. Polarstern, January-March 2012). Sample collection and onboard analysis of iron concentration and speciation .

· Southern Ocean iron fertilization experiment LOHAFEX (R.V. Polarstern, January-March 2009). Sample collection and onboard analysis of iron concentration and speciation .

· Cruise 48/05 (R.V. Prince Madog, 14-15 december 2005) organized by the POL Coastal Observatory. Part of the project “Iron speciation in seawater” –NERC-. Sample collection.

· Cruise SAFe (R.V. Melville-USA- October-november 2004). Determination of Fe in Pacific Ocean waters by voltammetry at picomolar levels. Intercomparison of different analytical methods.

· Scientific campaign Svalbard 2002 (polar station Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway, june 2002). Part of the COMET project (Chemical composition of dissolved organic matter and its interaction with metals and ultraviolet radiation in river-ocean systems: impact on the microbial food web). Determination of Fe and Cu speciation in mesocosm experiments.

· Cruise Ironages-2 64PE191 (R.V. Pelagia-HOL- March-April 2002). Part of the project IRONAGES. Determination of the concentration of Fe(II) in seawater by chemiluminiscence.

· Cruises as part of the COMET project. Determination of dissolved copper concentrations and copper complexing capacities of DOM:

- Navicula (R.V. Navicula-HOL-, April 2001).

- Pelagia Around Africa, legs 9 and 10 (R.V. Pelagia-HOL- May-June 2001).

· Cruise M45/5b (R.V. Meteor-GER-, Oct.-Nov. 1999) in collaboration with the University of Bremen and the Institut für Meereskunde in Kiel. In situ determination of the carbonate system (vertical profiles and ocean-atmosphere interchange).

· Cruise CHAOS (R.R.V. Discovery-U.K.- April-June 1998) in collaboration with the SOC (Southampton Oceanography Center). In situ determination of the carbonate system (vertical profiles and ocean-atmosphere interchange).

· Cruises as part of the CANIGO project, funded by the European Union, in situ determination of the carbonate system (vertical profiles and ocean-atmosphere interchange):

– P219 (R.V. Poseidon-GER-, April 1996).

– VH 97/3-3 (R.V. Victor Henzen-GER- April 1997).

– Thalassa 97 (R.V. Thalassa-FRA-, Aug.-Sept. 1997).

– CANIGO 0198 (R.V. Cornide de Saavedra-SPA-, January-February 1998)

– P237 (R.V. Poseidon-GER-, March 1998).

– Azores II (R.V. Hespérides-SPA-, April-May 1999).

· 1996 to 1999. Research assistant for the periodic sampling of the oceanic station ESTOC (European Station for Time Series in the Ocean Canary Islands) via monthly cruises onboard the spanish R.V. Taliarte. Responsible for the in situ determination of the carbonate system (vertical profiles and ocean-atmosphere interchange).