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Dr. Irene de Bustamante Gutiérrez

Position: 
Deputy Director
PhD: 
Geological Sciences. Complutense University of Madrid. Spain
Research: 
Hidrogeology
Joining Date: 
02/2007
Address: 
IMDEA Water. Avenida Punto Com, 2. Parque Científico Tecnológico de la Universidad de Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. 28805 MADRID
E-mail: 
irene.bustamante@imdea.org
Short Bio: 

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 1990 is Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Alcalá. She is currently Director of the Master's Degree in Hydrology and Water Resource Management. Since 2007 she is the Deputy Director of IMDEA Water Institute. Among her current research may include: reuse of reclaimed water for irrigation and aquiefers recharge, hydrogeology, water quality and pollution and environmental cartography. She has participated in 60 projects and research contracts, in 35 of them being the principal investigator. The results are reflected in more than 200 papers in journals, books and papers, three patents and a software. She has also directed 8 doctoral theses, licentiate 4 PhD and 35 master's projects. Also noteworthy is her work as Director of the Master in Hydrology and Water Resources Management, besides being part of the Educational Commission of the PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources Management.

She recently won several research awards, 3 of them related to Consolider Tragua "Treatment and reuse of wastewater for sustainable management", granted by the Board of the University of Alcalá in 2007; by the International Water Association in 2012 within of the category "Grand prize in the practical realization" and by the Directorate General of Technical and Scientific Research in 2012 as one of five representative projects funded scientific quality recently by the Spanish National Research Plan. She also won a second prize in 2012 during the XIV edition of the 3M Foundation Awards for innovation for her work "Evolution of traces of drugs in the treatment of urban waste water."