Amanda Prado de Nicolás

She has a bachelor degree in Biology at University Rey Juan Carlos (2009-2013) and an official Biotechnology Master (with excellence mention) at University Autónoma of Madrid (2013-2014). During her degree studies, she received a Collaborative research fellowship (2012-2013), cooperating with Biodiversity and Conservation department, where she worked in research project titled “Mechanistic approximation to the study of the eco-physiological limitations and biological interactions that determine the southern distribution limits of two macro-algae Ref. CGL2010-19301/BOS)”. In addition she did her graduate practices in IMDEA Water (2013), belonging to the group of Bioelectrogenesis, coordinated by Dr. Abraham Esteve. Here she collaborated with the research “Development of microbial desalination cells”. According to master studies, her final dissertation, supported by Banco Santander (2014), was focused on “Development of a system oriented to the wastewater treatment”, led by Dr. Abraham Esteve. Later (2014-2015), she was a contracted as researcher at the Bioelectrogenesis group in the University of Alcalá, where she continued developing her research in the field of wastewater treatment with microbial electrochemical technologies. In this case she focused on “wastewater treatment with bioelectrogenic wetlands with electroactive biochar as biofilter substrate”. Nowadays, as research support at IMDEA Water, she is developing her doctoral thesis in the field of wastewater treatment by bioelectrogenic systems.