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Dr. Sanda Iepure

Position: 
Researcher
PhD: 
Biology. Romanian Academy. Romania
Research: 
Application of groundwater ecology to aquifer management
Joining Date: 
02/2011
Leaving Date: 
02/2018
Address: 
IMDEA Water. Avenida Punto Com, 2. Parque Científico Tecnológico de la Universidad de Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. 28805 MADRID
E-mail: 
sanda.iepure@imdea.org
Short Bio: 

Dr. Sanda Iepure obtained a degree and MsC degree in Biology from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Romania, and a PhD in Biology from the Romanian Academy in 2008. Dr. Iepure has developed research in groundwater ecology and cave fauna working in Romania at the Institute of Speleology “Emil Racovita”, Cluj (Romania) since 1999. During her research carrier she spent several months in the Groundwater Ecology Department at the Institute for Limnology Mondsee (Austria) and Nationals Museums of Natural History from Madrid, Bruxelles, Paris and Warsaw.

Her research line was focused on application of groundwater ecology to aquifer managements by evaluating the groundwater fauna biodiversity from clean and polluted aquifers in both detrital and soluble carbonate rocks.

She has been conducted and participated in several groundwater research projects financed by the National University Research Council (NURC) in Romania. Dr. Iepure has authored and co-authored twenty six scientific articles of which ten are published (four are accepted) in per-reviewed international journal and nine are book chapters.