Dr. María del Pino Palacios Díaz

PhD in Agronomist Engineering PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, 1993. She has a Master in Environmental Engineering from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Technical Expert in Agricultural Business Management and Pruning Specialist. Since 1999 she is Professor in the ULPGC.

Her research lines are: agricultural reuse of reclaimed municipal water; water monitoring, management and optimization of their agronomic and health aspects involved in reuse; Soil and fertilizer; Production of forage and biofuels; Maintenance of irrigation systems; Water quality (presence and mobility studies of emerging contaminants in soil and water).

She has participated in 11 research projects (2 international, 6 national and 3 regional projects) and 9 research contracts (4 funded by public entities and 5 funded by private entities). She is author of 25 papers in international journals, 5 in national journals, 4 books, 4 book sections and 75 International and National Conferences monographs. She has also published several popular articles and she received the Canarian award for best outreach work. She has supervised three PhD thesis.

Currently she leads the research team of the ULPGC in the ADAPTaRES Project (Interreg-MAC 2014-2020).