David Mostaza Colado

Position: 
Research support
Research: 
Intelligent system to optimize the use of water in agriculture
Joining Date: 
02/2015
Leaving Date: 
12/2018
Address: 
IMDEA Water. Avenida Punto Com, 2. Parque Científico Tecnológico de la Universidad de Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. 28805 MADRID
E-mail: 
david.mostaza@imdea.org
Short Bio: 

Graduated in Environmental Sciences (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - 2007/2012) and M.Sc. in Hydrology and Water Resources Management (Universidad de Alcalá & Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - 2012/2013). Currently as Phd student in Hydrology and Water Resources Management (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos & Universidad de Alcalá)

He worked as a research assistant in the CONSOLIDER-Tragua project, at the Department of Biology and Geology of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and at IMDEA Water, developing a georeferenced database of the Spanish waste water treatment plants (WWTP).

His master research work estudied the hydrogeological evolution and the anthropic impact over the groundwater body 030.007 (Aluviales Jarama-Tajuña).

He worked as a research assistant at IMDEA Water in Smart-Hydro "Intelligent system to optimize the use of water in agriculture" project (grant number RTC-2014-2367-5 supported by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness within the call "Retos-Colaboración").

Part of the results of his work in Smart-Hydro are the publication of the article "Hydrogeochemical characterization of a shallow alluvial aquifer: 1 baseline for groundwater quality assessment and resource management" in Science of The Total Environment journal, related to the hydrochemical characterization of the study area; as well as the near public defence of a PhD thesis on the connectivity of the Jarama River and the "Aluviales: Jarama-Tajuña" aquifer in the southeast of the Community of Madrid.

He is currently working as a research assistant within the Cianoalert project, where he participates in remote sensing tasks to obtain relevant information on the degree of affectation, distribution and density of cyanobacterias (grant number RTC-2016-5087-2 supported by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and co-supported by the European Union (FEDER)).