EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT

Dr Lourdes López-Merino

Employment

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) - ENVIROVEG

    • Jul. 2020: Madrid Talent Attraction Fellow

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) - EcoPast

    • Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2020: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Independent Fellow

Kingston University London (UK) - Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment

    • Jan. 2019 – Aug. 2019: Lecturer in Physical Geography

Brunel University London (UK) - Institute of Environment, Health and Societies

    • Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2018: Research Fellow

    • Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2016: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Brunel University London (UK) - Institute for the Environment

    • Jan. 2013 – Dec. 2013: MINT fellow

    • Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow funded by BP

    • Oct. 2010 – Sep. 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Spanish Government

Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences - Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC, Spain) - Archaeobiology Group

    • Apr. 2009 – Sep. 2010: Research Assistant

    • May 2005 – Dec. 2008: I3P PhD Scholarship funded by the ESF and the CSIC

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) - Department of Ecology

    • 2003 – 2004: Collaboration Scholarship funded by the Ministry of Education

Education

  • 2019: Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

  • 2018: Science to Data Science (S2DS) course organised by Pivigo. London (UK)

      • Data science project with the UK Food Standards Agency on record linkage

  • 2009: PhD Palaeoenvironment, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Extraordinary award. Supervisor: Dr JA López-Sáez

  • 2006: DEA Ecology & Environment, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

  • 2005: Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica (Spanish Postgraduate Certificate in Education), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

  • 2004: BSc Biology (5-year degree), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

Academic secondments

  • Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, Edith Cowan University (Australia). August 3 - 16, 2015

  • Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Murcia (Spain). May 2 - 30, 2012

  • Departamento de Edafología y Química Agrícola, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). May 2 - 29, 2011

  • Laboratoire de Chrono-Ecologie, Université de Franche-Comté (France). March 1 - May 5, 2007

  • Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona (USA). October 16 - December 15, 2006