Anna Jurado Elices

Anna Jurado holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering with a specialization in Groundwater Hydrology (UPC, 2013). Her main research line is to identify and quantify alternative water resources, such as urban groundwater, to alleviate the water shortage in urban settings. Specifically, her research focuses on improving urban groundwater quality, paying special attention to the natural attenuation processes undergone by contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the subsurface. Currently, she is the PI of two projects: “Hydrochemical coupled processes affecting contaminants of emerging concern in urban groundwater” (HYDRO) and "Assessing the natural attenuation of organic contaminants of emerging concern in urban aquifers through modelling and identification of transformation products” (ATTENUATE). In the framework of these projects, she is supervising three PhD students and one postdoctoral researcher. Moreover, she is and has been involved in several research projects with a predominant emphasis on the identification and quantification of the processes that control the fate of CECs in urban aquifers at field and lab scales (i.e., REACTANT and FANATIC).