Mercedes Solla

Dr Mercedes Solla received the PhD degree from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2010, in the field of geodesic and geophysics. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering in the Defense University Center (Spanish Naval Academy) and researcher in the Applied Geotechnologies research group at the University of Vigo. She was an active Management Committee Substitute Member of COST Action TU1208. Her research interests include the use of GPR for subsurface prospection, including the applications of GPR in archaeology, cultural heritage and civil engineering. In 2009 and 2012, she was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment of The University of Edinburgh, collaborating with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) (UK), and in 2015 she was a visiting researcher at the Transportation Department of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) (PT). Dr. Solla has coorganized in Spain the national congress on defense and security R&D in 2015. She has more than 150 publications on peer-refereed journals, book chapters, conference proceedings and technical reports (with more than 40 scientific papers on prestigious international journals included in the JCR database), and she is co-inventor of a patent. She was the supervisor of 5 PhD theses. She served as guest editor for GPR Special Issues on Remote Sensing in 2014 and 2017.

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