Dr María Cruz Minguillón (female) is a tenure scientist at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), CSIC. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science (2007, Doctorate Extraordinary Prize). She was Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California, USA, and at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.
Her research focuses on air quality in outdoor and indoor environments and the contribution of sources of particulate matter (aerosols), with emphasis on carbonaceous aerosols. She masters the use of aerosol mass spectrometers for the real time chemical characterization of submicron atmospheric particles. She coordinated the COST Action CA16109 COLOSSAL on fine aerosols using high time resolution techniques (80 partners from 34 countries). She is part of ACTRIS Research Infrastructure, and member of CEN European Working Groups. She has participated in more than 35 national and international research projects: 2 as PI in Spanish National Plan, 1 as PI of subproject Marie Curie ITN, and over 10 contracts with administrations. She co-authored more than a hundred SCI research articles, mostly in journals in the first quartile, books, book chapters, and edited a book. She co-authored >140 contributions to conferences and gave multiple scientific invited talks. She co-authored several reports for the European Commission, the Swiss Environmental Agency, and Regional Governments in Spain. She organized international training schools. She supervised three PhD thesis and a fourth one is ongoing. She is reviewer for >25 SCI journals and project proposal evaluator for entities in >5 countries. She is active in dissemination activities, providing workshops for school and high-school students, talks for entities and general public. She was Scientific Advisor at #CienciaenelParlamento.
She worked on the transmission of SARS-Cov-2 by air and coordinated Module II on Transmission and Prevention of the Master’s Degree in Pandemics, Global Health and Covid-19 (Pandemias, Salud Global y Covid-19), from International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP)-CSIC, 1st edition 2021. She advised different Spanish administrations on Covid-19 transmission (2020-2021) and was interviewed by several media, e.g. RTVE, RNE, Agencia EFE. Her article in The Conversation was read more than 300 000 times. She received the Award to Young Talented Female Scientist from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences Foundation (Premio al Joven Talento Científico Femenino, FRACE) (2021).
